L3Harris and SpaceX will provide the Space Development Agency satellites that can monitor hypersonic weapons. The agreement indicates that each company will develop four satellites with wide field of view overhead persistent infrared sensors. Moving in low-Earth orbit, the spacecraft will use SDA’s tracking layer, a system that tracks missiles speeding faster than Mach 5, […]
Ball Aerospace President Rob Strain has joined the Defense Innovation Board Space Advisory Committee as a subcommittee member to help address issues in the space domain. With over three decades of experience in the aerospace sector, Strain is expected to provide the organization with expertise in resolving current and future challenges and opportunities in the […]
The U.S. Army expects to issue requests for proposals for a potential $10B multi-award contracts in the next six months. In his speech at the AFCEA Belvoir event held on Sept. 29, Ross Guckert, program executive officer at Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems, disclosed that the organization will offer multi-billion contracts for IT services. […]
Laura Frank is Lockheed Martin’s vice president for strategy and business development, training and logistics solutions, responsible for sales for the TLS market segments. Since July 2019, she has led the business unit that also oversees the training, defense sustainment solutions, test and support equipment, and spares, repairs and supply chain. Before taking on her […]
Ella Studer serves as senior vice president for U.S. government solutions – logistics at KBR, a role she has held since June 2017. She is in charge of the business segment that delivers various services to the vital facilities and equipment for customers in the Department of Defense and private entities. With annual revenues of […]
As the vice director for the Defense Logistics Agency, Michael Scott leads the Department of Defense’s combat support agency tasked to provide worldwide logistics, food, medical material, uniforms and construction equipment for the military service branches and other federal agencies. Headquartered in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the DLA also supplied most of DOD’s fuel and spare […]
ICF has received a potential five-year, $25M contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide technical services for its latest cloud-driven data warehouse network. The deal indicates that the Virginia-based digital services company will deliver to the department's Childrens’ Bureau engineering and architecture services for the design of the National Child Welfare […]
Amanda Brownfield, formerly president of Geospark Analytics, has taken on the role of chief executive officer at the security company, succeeding Omar Balkissoon. Brownfield has more than 20 years of experience serving in senior management roles for both privately held and publicly traded organizations in the national security space. Balkinssoon, a past Wash100 awardee, becomes […]
Consulting firm EnDyna has secured a $13.5M contract from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to provide vulnerability disclosure policy shared services that government agencies can use to allow researchers to identify security weaknesses. Formally designated as a quality service management office, the VDP system is the first of the three initial services CISA will […]
SAS and RTI International have announced a partnership designed to enhance research and analytics services for the public sector market. The North Carolina-based organizations will mainly serve the U.S. government agencies. RTI performs and organizes research, while analytics service company SAS provides software that analyzes data and offers business insights for the clients. The companies […]
