The Semiconductor Industry Association has drafted a set of proposals seeking $37B in federal aid to establish a chip factory, incentivize manufacturers and support research projects, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. “Our plan has a big... Read more
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to provide seedling concepts across five technology areas to aid in the fight against COVID-19. Read more
SpaceX has received Federal Aviation Administration clearance to test a resuable prototype of the company's new crew and cargo transportation platform through suborbital flight missions. Read more
RadiaBeam Technologies and Lumitron Technologies are exploring gamma ray radiation sources for the first phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency initiative to develop a nondestructive inspection system for potential use in health ca... Read more
Charles River Analytics has secured Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity funds to advance a virtual reality technology designed to help military first responders examine brain injury cases on the battlefield. The company said Monday it wil... Read more
Eight U.S. companies have been selected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to produce machines that are based on a high-pressure ventilator technology to aid in the fight against COVID-19. The manufacturers will receive free licenses for th... Read more
The Department of Defense has awarded 5N Plus' semiconductors business and satellite solar power company SolAero Technologies separate contracts worth $18.45M combined to help both manufacturers sustain production operations amid the COVID-1... Read more
Lockheed Martin has handed the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452's first KC-130J tanker aircraft, one of the company's nine Super Hercules production models. Read more
George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International and two-time Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of trustees at Cornell College. The board elected Krivo along with Marissa Czapla, a financial analyst at Mutual of Omaha; Stephanie Froehlich, associ... Read more
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, said adopting open-source tools can drive transparency necessary to address bias in artificial intelligence, GovCon Wire rep... Read more
Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries and former Wash100 Award recipient, has said that the company transitioned over 11K employees to telework settings due to the ongoing pandemic, Inside Defense reported Friday. Read more
Synack, a crowdsourced security platform provider, has secured $52M in a round of Series D financing co-led by B Capital Group and C5 Capital. Read more
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory has partnered with NASA to develop a phased-array antenna for the agency’s search-and-rescue satellite infrastructure at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Read more
The votes for the Wash100 Popular Vote continue to flood in at an all-time high. Nearly 16,000 votes have been cast to make this year’s battle for first place the most competitive in Wash100’s seven-year history. However, the end is approaching... Read more
PSC Comments on DoD Reimbursement Guidance Under CARES Act Section 3610; Alan Chvotkin Quoted
The Professional Services Council (PSC) has submitted comments in response to the Department of Defense (DoD) draft guidance on requests for reimbursement under Section 3610 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the... Read more