Lockheed Martin has secured a $340M contract from the U.S. Army to make its latest mid-range missile prototype. In a statement, the service’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office said the mid-range capability prototype, which would include launchers, missiles and a battery operations center, will use the Navy’s Raytheon-built SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles. The missile, […]
Twenty four companies have secured contracts from the U.S. Air Force to provide sensor connectivity to shooters in all domains. The Advanced Battle Management System, the platform behind the Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept, allows warfighters to identify and neutralize attacks in space such as shooting down a missile with a hypervelocity weapon. The […]
The Air Force Association has selected Lockheed Martin as the 2020-2021 presenting sponsor for the StellarXplorers Program to increase student outreach and full-time professional staffing. An AFA education initiative for a space system engineering competition, the StellarXplorers is meant to encourage students to use and promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum. In particular, the […]
The Trump administration has reportedly named Camilo Sandoval as federal chief information security officer. He succeeded Grant Scheider, who vacated the position in August to join Washington-based law firm Venable as senior director for cybersecurity services, according to Fedscoop. In the article posted on the CIO Council website, Sandoval said cybersecurity became the center of […]
General Dynamics Electric Boat has secured a $9.5B contract modification option to build, test and maintain Columbia-class submarines for the U.S. Navy. GDEB is the main contractor for the program, which is meant to modernize the vessels and replace the decades-old Ohio-class of ballistic missiles. The company will carry out 75 percent of the work […]
The U.S. Department of Energy has launched a new initiative meant to protect the critical infrastructure from potential threats to sustaining the country’s security and progress. The Operational Technology Defender Fellowship program is a partnership with DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center for Cyber and Technology Innovation. The collaboration […]
Amir Orad is the CEO at Sisense, a New York-based IT software company established in 2004 focusing on areas such as business intelligence, predictive analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Specializing in big data, cybersecurity and financial technology, Orad is an entrepreneur who helps startups with their funding, business operations and mergers and acquisitions activities. […]
Kevin Davis joined Databricks as vice president for the public sector in 2018, responsible for helping agency customers use artificial intelligence via the combination of data and machine learning approaches in a single network. He brings more than 25 years of experience in technology sales and is tasked to address the customers’ requirements for the […]
Tom White is Snowflakes’ director for public sector partners, in charge of recruiting and signing services partners for the federal and the selling to state, local and education markets. Specializing in data analytics and warehouse, cloud data platform and big data, he has more than 20 years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development and […]
Tara Murphy Dougherty serves as the chief executive officer at Govini, a company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, providing data science, analytics software, supply chain risk management and machine learning services to the public sector market. Daugherty succeeded Chris Taylor in January 2020 and was the organization’s president for national security practice for nearly two years, […]
