Steve Hull has been serving as the senior vice president and chief information officer for Liedos since August 2016. In his current role, Hull leads the development and implementation of the company’s information technology strategy to drive business growth and agility, data and system resiliency and enterprisewide operational readiness. During his tenure, he facilitated the […]
Envistacom and NOVELSAT have collaborated to enhance the former’s proprietary Transport Virtualization Ecosystem. As part of the partnership, NOVELSAT will integrate high-performance satellite access waveforms to the TVE in an effort to advance the Envistacom ecosystem’s ability to incorporate virtualized applications such as advanced communications waveforms, encryption and data analytics into common off-the-shelf hardware. Specifically, […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is prioritizing the integration of artificial intelligence components on the military’s Joint All Domain Command and Control, according to the agency’s acting director, Nand Mulchandani. Speaking at a recent news briefing, Mulchandani said JAIC is focused on identifying approaches to introduce AI components, including data, AI modeling, training and deployment, […]
Scality’s cloud storage solution, called RING8, has been integrated as the foundation of two ViON enterprise cloud infrastructure services, namely the object storage-as-a-service and archive-as-a-service offerings. The combination of ViON’s federal market experience and Scality’s unstructured data technology and scalability is expected to address storage needs across the federal sector. Scality’s RING8 solution supports ViON’s […]
The Department of Defense has awarded a $214.3M contract to GM Defense for the production, deployment and sustainment of the Army Infantry Brigade Combat Teams’ new Infantry Squad Vehicle, an all-terrain troop carrier intended for soldier transport. The contract award provides for the initial procurement of 649 ISVs, which constitute more than a third of the […]
The Department of Defense intends to issue a second wave of requests for proposals in support of its upcoming 5G experiment efforts at seven new U.S. military bases. The additional RFPs for 5G prototypes are slated for release in the coming weeks and are aimed at accelerating and expanding the military use of 5G and facilitating innovation […]
An amendment to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act aims to establish a new Office of Joint Cyber Planning that would promote cybersecurity partnership between the government and private sector to defend against adversarial cyber attacks, particularly from Russia and China. The office, as proposed, would be at the forefront of government-wide and public-private planning and […]
Leaders of the National Defense Industrial Association and the Professional Services Council have urged the Trump administration to give contractors more time to comply with the government-wide ban against companies’ use of Chinese-made telecommunications equipment, particularly those manufactured by Huawei. In an email sent to DefenseNews, the NDIA called on the government to extend the […]
Cubic Mission Solutions is set to produce communication data link system – technical refresh equipment for the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command under the terms of a five-year, $9M sole-source contract. For the purposes of the contract, Cubic will provide its Sharklink system, which will then be deployed by the Navy on two of its […]
US21 has been selected as one of the contractors for the 10-year, $950M multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide equipment, training and product support services to roughly 3.5K Air Force Special Warfare operators. Contract work covers support for five mission areas, one of which involves providing capabilities supporting tactical zones of actions like drop zones and […]
