Michael Dumais is the chief transformation officer and executive vice president of corporate strategy and development at Raytheon Technologies, a provider of weapons and military- and commercial-grade electronics. He was the EVP of operations and strategy for United Technologies Corp. prior to its merger with Raytheon Co. in 2020. Dumais has over two decades of […]
David Hathaway, a Potomac Officers Club member and an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience, has been appointed executive vice president and general manager of ManTech International‘s defense sector. He will oversee technology solutions delivery and other activities that support Department of Defense customers. He will report directly to ManTech Chief Operating Officer […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $9.6 million other transaction authority agreement to work on the second phase of the service’s Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team solution. The TLS-BCT is the Army’s first integrated electronic warfare, signals intelligence and cyber platform that will be mounted on Stryker vehicles. Under the contract, the Bethesda, […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has opened its first director commissioning program to recruit specialists for the military branch’s cyber command. The subject matter experts that will be hired will focus on cyberspace operations, cybersecurity, information assurance and cyber threat intelligence. Coast Guard Cyber Command chief Michael Ryan said the initial program rollout will start with […]
Information technology service management provider Sev1Tech has secured a $47.5 million other transaction authority contract to prototype and demonstrate a data transport-as-a-service capability that will support global warfighting operations. Activities will fall under the Advanced Battle Management System‘s meshONE-Terrestrial program. ABMS is the U.S. Air Force’s contribution to the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command […]
Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman have launched the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept for the first time in the presence of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force. The activity is part of a $200 million teaming agreement between the two companies to develop hypersonic ballistics for the military. The […]
Nathan Green is a program manager at the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s Emerging Technology Directorate. He joined the Department of Defense unit in August 2018 as director of operations and also served as an aide-de-camp for DISA from July 2019 to March 2021. In his current leadership role, Green integrated new technology offerings into the […]
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen Randy Kee has been appointed as the Department of Defense’s senior adviser for security in the Arctic. He will be responsible for establishing the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, an organization that will focus on operations in the Arctic region. The former Air Force officer is also the […]
Dell Technologies has secured the National Nuclear Security Administration‘s $40 million Commodity Technology Systems-2 contract for the delivery of expanded supercomputing capabilities at three national laboratories. Dell will provide over 40 petaflops of computing capacity at Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. The contract is funded by the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is considering creating a satellite constellation equipped with solar arrays to provide power to the U.S. Army’s forward operating bases. The AFRL believes the concept is possible and is setting a technology demonstration as early as 2024. The initiative is called the Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research. […]
