Voly Defense Solutions has received a potential $400M contract to help the U.S. Air Force design new drones and diversify the service branch’s current reserve of contractors. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center chose the Volansi subsidiary as an official vendor for the Skyborg Vanguard Program, Air Force Technology reported Thursday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity agreement […]
The National Spectrum Consortium has landed a potential five-year, $2.5B contract from the Department of Defense meant to fast-track the development of the latest battlefield technologies. The Spectrum Forward other transaction agreement calls for the South Carolina-based defense contractor to finance the prototyping of new dual-use technologies that use the electromagnetic spectrum, including 5G networks, […]
Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector and industries at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 winner, said the Washington-based cloud computing company is in talks with the government and private sector to meet the cloud adoption challenges, according to ExecutiveBiz, citing a Computer Weekly interview. Carlson said the organization is working with […]
Parsons has named Carey Smith, president and chief operating officer and a Wash100 winner, as a member of the board of directors to further contribute to the company’s growth and innovation. According to Chuck Harrington, chairman and chief executive officer and a 2020 Wash100 winner, Smith’s experience in operational leadership, maintaining customer relationships and being […]
Matt Desch, chief executive officer of Iridium Communications, received his sixth consecutive Wash100 award from Executive Mosaic for his contributions to the government contracting industry. Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the award to Desch in recognition of his IT and telecommunications efforts in advancing new satellite capabilities, the internet of things and cloud technologies […]
The Center for a New American Security has named Joe Purcell and Timothy McBride as members of the board of advisors. CNAS CEO Richard Fontaine said the two executives’ experiences in their own fields are expected to have a main effect on the organization’s research efforts, the organization said Tuesday. “Their decades of leadership in […]
The Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center is staying abreast of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies with the launch of the Grand Challenge Program. With education, small projects, infrastructure tools and communication as the focus areas, the initiative is meant to establish a fundamental knowledge of AI and ML within the workforce and […]
BMC has received the Defense Information Systems Agency's Provisional Authorization for Impact Level 4 for its Helix ITSM solution. The DISA IL-4 authorization for the Amazon Web Services cloud confirms that the vendor’s product is in line with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the Department of Defense security requirements for controlled unclassified […]
The U.S. Marine Corps has been supporting the Cyber Command to conduct operations against cyberattacks and threat actors. The Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command, or MARFORCYBER, is the service’s cyber component to USCYBERCOM, sharing its information with designated soldiers and training them to use computer systems and capabilities to attain their objectives, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. […]
Palantir Technologies received a $113.8M contract from the U.S. Army when the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems exercised its option to select the Colorado-based software company to continue working on the Vantage program. The deal, originally valued at $458M, was awarded in December 2019 and consists of one base year and three option […]
