The Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin an $861.73M modification for eight Lot 14 F-35A conventional takeoff and landing jets in the wake of Turkey's removal from the F-35 program. Lockheed's deal also includes six additional F-35As built for the Air Force and modifications that reconfigure the Turkish jets to align with U.S. standards, Defense […]
Alion Science and Technology has received a $182M U.S. Navy task order to provide Navy Continuous Training Environment Joint Semi Joint Semi-Automated Forces research and development services. Under the 48-month task order, Alion will help provide virtual and constructive fleet training to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona. The deal was awarded by the Air Force Installation […]
The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center must train its AI tools in a “diverse” enough way to become deployable globally and viable anywhere, the center’s top official said. Nand Mulchandani, JAIC’s acting director, said the agency’s existing training data set is not representative of factors such as global terrain, global information or human faces, DOD […]
Wesley Kremer serves as the president of Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a role he has held since April. As a long-time leader at Raytheon, Kremer has decades of executive experience in aerospace and defense. He leads about 30K employees and is responsible for a large portfolio of air and missile defense systems, precision weapons, radars, command […]
Scott Greene is Lockheed Martin's executive vice president of missiles and fire control, a $10B business that employs about 19K people. Lockheed Martin MFC develops and maintains advanced combat, missile, rocket and energy systems and provides technical services and logistics support. Its customers include the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Special Operations Forces and […]
The Department of Homeland Security has so far not seen any foreign effort to influence the upcoming U.S. elections, according to the department's cybersecurity head. Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said he has not seen a level of "coordinated, determined cyber activities" from foreign adversaries […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched Finding Exploits to Thwart Tampering, a new bug bounty program for ethical hackers and cybersecurity researchers. Officials said the program was created to find potential weaknesses in new secure processors in development on the System Security Integration Through Hardware and Firmware program, Homeland Preparedness News reported. “We are […]
Raytheon has won a $125.88M contract to deliver Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar low-rate initial production for the Navy, the Department of Defense announced. The modification contract calls for six EASR LRIP units, four AN/SPY-6(V)2 EASR rotator units and two AN/SPY-6(V)3 EASR fixed-faced LRIP units, Defense World.net reported. EASR was designed to provide simultaneous anti-air and anti-surface warfare, […]
Booz Allen Hamilton announced that it has been selected as the NVIDIA Partner Network's 2019 Global Consulting Partner of the Year for the Americas, marking the third year in a row it has received the award. The awardee was recognized for its promotion of artificial intelligence adoption across the federal government. Booz Allen's partnership with […]
LMI has announced that Doug Wagoner, a 2015 Wash100 awardee and a technology industry veteran, will join the company as president and CEO, effective Aug. 3. Wagoner will bring into his new role over 30 years of leadership experience in the federal information technology and management consulting sectors, Intelligence Community News reported. “From Doug’s long history […]
