Boeing has landed $3.1B in contracts for Harpoon and Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response weapon systems in support of Foreign Military Sales. Under one of the contracts, Boeing will provide non-recurring engineering to aid the Navy's SLAM ER obsolescence redesign effort. The company will also help produce and deliver 650 SLAM ER missiles in support of […]
Vertosoft, an information technology company, has partnered with mobile security provider Zimperium in a bid to distribute premier anti-mobile threat solutions. Under their agreement, Zimperium will rely on Vertosoft to provide public-sector distribution, sales, marketing and order management support. “Vertosoft will be a key extension of our sales team to help expand the Zimperium platform within […]
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas system has approved funding for the creation of a new hypersonic weapons test center for the Army Futures Command. Texas A&M's board of regents allowed the university to spend $79.3M for the construction of the Bush Combat Development Center. The state of Texas approved $50M while the Army will […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a machine learning platform that can improve the utility of the Department of Defense's robotic process automation tools for business tasks. DIU said it wants its RPA tools to become better at solving complex patterns by leveraging pattern recognition techniques and being more adaptable to different scenarios, FedScoop […]
The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $904.8M contract modification for the production and delivery of 24 MH-60R Seahawk maritime aircraft. MH-60Rs are multi-mission aircraft the Navy uses for combat duty and high-risk rescues. It was jointly built by Lockheed and its Sikorsky Aircraft subsidiary. Lockheed will deliver three units to the Navy and 21 […]
Ashley Mahan serves as the General Services Administration's director for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the secure cloud portfolio. She is considered a trusted liaison between federal agencies, industry cloud service providers and other stakeholders advocating for the secure deployment of cloud technologies across the federal government. "Her work drives a dramatic […]
Dan Tucker, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, serves as the head of Booz Allen Hamilton's digital platform capability team, which helps clients develop business functions and applications in a cloud environment. Tucker was also responsible for overseeing Booz Allen's continuous process improvement function, which maintains a Capability Maturity Model Integration maturity level 5 […]
Noblis, a science and technology service provider, has appointed Christoph Wollersheim as the new director of the company’s advanced analytics and digital services division. Wollersheim will be responsible for executing the group’s strategy for exploiting and protecting data and infrastructure in support of federal civilian customers, Noblis said Monday. “He has significant experience in delivering […]
The Department of Defense has awarded ForAllSecure, a cybersecurity testing startup based in Silicon Valley, a five-year contract to test the applications of the department's weapon systems. According to a company spokesperson, the $45M contract was awarded by the DOD's Defense Innovation Unit. “One of the problems that the department runs into is this idea that there’s a […]
The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has announced the 244 awardees of the $20B on-ramp government-wide acquisition contract vehicle. The Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business GWAC was designed to facilitate the government's acquisition of information technology services and health IT needs, G2Xchange reported. The contracts have a […]
