Deloitte and Amazon Web Services have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership to provide cloud migration and application modernization for enterprise and public-sector customers. AWS Professional Services will use its technical competencies to support Deloitte's cloud services and consultancy, Intelligence Community News reported. “The nature of our C-suite relationships often enables us to design a […]
LMI has been awarded a five-year contract to support digital transformation at the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service. Under the terms of the $20M contract, LMI will create an online portal that will serve as an application hub for GSA PBA employees worldwide. It will house applications used for managing, leasing and maintaining buildings […]
The Space Force and its industrial base are working out what framework the service should use to train its warfighters for future conflict in the contested space domain. Frank Backes, senior vice president for federal space at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, said the Space Force's training plan would depend on its envisioned tactics, strategies […]
Curtiss-Wright, a provider of diversified products and services, has announced that Lynn Bamford will serve as its new CEO and president. She will replace sitting CEO David Adams, who plans to retire from his post on Jan. 1. Adams will continue to serve as executive chairman of the board through May 2022 to facilitate Bamford's […]
The Trump administration has issued an executive order directing federal civilian agencies to ensure that their artificial intelligence technologies are trustworthy. The executive order laid down nine principles for the design, development, use and acquisition of AI. The principles are based on ones already established by the defense and intelligence communities, FedScoop reported. “Artificial intelligence […]
General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company has been awarded a $100.04M contract to maintain and modernize the USS Comstock (LSD 45) Whidbey Island-class landing ship. The contract would have a maximum value of $128.8M if all options are exercised. Under the terms of the firm-fixed-price contract, NASSCO will perform restricted availability efforts for the […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon Intelligence & Space a five-year basic ordering agreement for DevSecOps LevelUP software services. The LevelUP program was created to help the military branch establish its Cyber Works “cyber factory” and Unified Platform, a cyberspace operations system for future cyber mission force capabilities. “To combat increasingly fast, capable and […]
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Stacey Dixon, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, has won her first Wash100 award from Executive Mosaic. As part of the 2020 Wash100 selection, Executive Mosaic founder and CEO Jim Garrettson presented the award in recognition of Dixon's efforts to diversify and educate NGA's workforce, GovCon Wire reported. She […]
Parsons has launched a series of cloud-native stream platforms designed to help government and commercial customers meet their data-processing requirements. The company announced two distributions: Cloud Native Streaming Platform and Kubernetes Native Streaming Platform. CNSP is already in use within the Intelligence Community, while KNSP is a newly developed platform, Parsons said Wednesday. “Both platforms […]
ManTech has been awarded a $273M contract to provide the Department of Homeland Security with advanced analytics for border control. The five-year contract calls for business intelligence support services that will help Customs and Border Protection preempt acts of crime and terrorism, ManTech said Thursday. “ManTech’s sophisticated analytics, automation and AI capabilities allow us to […]
