John Cooper is the senior vice president of global government and defense at AAR, an independent aviation services provider based in Wood Dale, Illinois. Cooper assumed his current role in October 2019. He handles the planning and execution of AAR’s strategies for the government and defense sectors. Concurrently, he leads his own consultancy firm, John […]
President Joe Biden has allotted $13.2 billion for the Internal Revenue Service in his fiscal year 2022 budget request, a 10 percent increase from the agency’s fiscal year 2021 budget. Biden earmarked $5.5 billion for the IRS’s enforcement division, $4.4 billion for infrastructure and operations support, $2.9 billion for taxpayer services and $305 million for […]
The Department of Defense plans to expand its software appropriation pilot in 2022 to include a $955 million information technology project by the Navy. The Software and Digital Technology Pilot Program was launched to test a funding structure specifically designed to facilitate agile software development, allowing the DOD to break free from a military hardware-centric […]
Jim Edman, South Dakota’s chief information security officer, is set to become one of the new statewide coordinators for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Edman will step down as the state’s CISO on June 8, wrapping up a nearly 40-year career at the state government. He will formally join CISA on June 21 and […]
The Department of Justice has seized two internet domains used in a recent hack targeting the U.S. Agency for International Development. The attack, described as a phishing campaign, was discovered by Microsoft. According to the tech company, victims were tricked into clicking on emails that looked to be from USAID but contained links allowing the […]
The Space Force has introduced selection boards as a new way of vetting enlisted personnel for promotion, with the goal of completely eliminating the need for skills tests in 2022. According to Space Force Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, the service recently made use of selection committees to vet guardians up for promotion in the […]
The Naval Air Warfare Aircraft Division is in need of a small business that can fulfill its requirements for a wide range of cyber warfare services. NAWCAD is conducting market research to gauge the industry’s ability to support the operations of its Cyber Warfare Department, according to a sources-sought notice posted on SAM .gov. The […]
Palantir Technologies has secured a potential two-year, $111 million contract with the U.S. Special Operations Command for the continued deployment of an enterprise data management and artificial intelligence-enabled mission command platform. The data platform has been used by the combatant command for the past five years in real-time mission operations to enable interoperability among troops […]
Alion Science and Technology is set to provide support services for the C-5M Super Galaxy fleet managed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center under the terms of a five-year, $64 million task order. The task calls for reliability, integrity and maintainability engineering. Work is aimed at resolving deficiencies found in C-5M aircraft systems, […]
Pamela Erickson is a seasoned executive currently serving as Raytheon Technologies’ senior vice president of global communications and corporate affairs. With a career spanning nearly 30 years, she has prior experience in building company reputation, increasing shareholder value and accelerating business growth in the aerospace and defense, finance and technology industries. Her duties for Raytheon […]
