Octo, a technology services provider, has been awarded a $249 million blanket purchase agreement to support the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Under the terms of the five-year multi-award deal, Octo will provide tools and develop capabilities for JAIC’s test and evaluation team, which is responsible for setting AI test and evaluation standards […]
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Laura Taylor-Kale for the role of assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy. The announcement came weeks after the Department of Defense reorganized its industrial base policy office, Defense One reported in April. The move aimed to improve oversight of the sector as it faces […]
DCS, a national security-focused engineering company, has secured a spot on a $249 million Navy contract vehicle for various technical services. The company now has positions in two pools under the Naval Air Warfare Center Air Division Webster Outlying Field’s Rapid Prototyping Integration and Development multiple-award contract. DCS said it will provide services under Pool […]
The Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday named a new chief information security officer as part of efforts to align with contemporary technological innovations. Joseph Baich has been selected to lead the strategy and implementation of the agency’s cybersecurity capabilities throughout its information technology ecosystem, The Record reported Thursday. In a statement, the CIA said that […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched DARPA Forward, a conference series that seeks to shed light on national security innovation. Scientists, innovators and senior defense leaders will discuss evolving challenges faced by warfighters, and new capabilities in the field of national security. Attendees will also be able to look into different topics across […]
Virginia-headquartered Raytheon Intelligence & Space announced that it was awarded a five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to continue geospatial-intelligence system mission support and training for the Air Force’s Distributed Common Ground System and Air National Guard locations worldwide. The deal calls for the leveraging of its mission domain knowledge to ensure high mission availability to support end-to-end […]
Resolution Consultants, a joint venture between AECOM and EnSafe, has secured a potential $400 million architecture and engineering contract with the U.S. Navy. The single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract calls for services in support of the Comprehensive Long-Term Environmental Action Navy program. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command is the contracting activity, AECOM said Wednesday. The contract […]
Raytheon Missiles & Defense announced that it has delivered the first in a series of radars intended to give the Army advanced warning against incoming air and missile threats. The product, called Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, recently arrived at the service’s White Sands Missile Range, Raytheon said Tuesday. The company said that […]
Alissa Bookwalter, a former technology official in the White House, has joined the Air Force’s Kessel Run software factory team. Kessel Run is the operational name of Detachment 12 of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The Boston, Massachusetts-based unit is tasked with delivering warfighting software products to airmen and revamping the service’s software […]
Software delivery platform company CloudBees has integrated its CloudBees CI offering with the U.S. Air Force’s Platform One Big Bang DevSecOps platform. The addition of the new solution will allow users to avoid vendor lock-in as they create safe and secure software factories. CloudBees CI is also expected to reduce the amount of configuration, increase […]
