HawkEye 360 has named Martin Faga of the National Reconnaissance Office, Joan Dempsey of Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency and former senator Joe Donnelly to its advisory board to add defense and intelligence expertise, the company... Read more
The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve’s North Carolina committee has honored Chuck Harrington, CEO at Parsons and 2020 Wash100 Award winner, with the Patriot Award. Read more
Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics subsidiary has docked its satellite-servicing spacecraft onto Intelsat’s telecommunications satellite as part of an effort to extend the latter’s lifespan by five years. Read more
The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for proposals to seek prototype projects that will help the government evaluate vertical takeoff and landing technologies. Read more
Kaser Mechanical, MERIT Investigative Services and Mellor Contracting & Supply have landed spots on a $66M contract with the U.S. Air Force to support mechanical engineering work at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Read more
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 27, 2020 — Roger Krone, chairman and CEO at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and a 2020 Wash100 winner, told CNBC in an interview the company looks to carry momentum from a pair of signficant acquisitions and government contract a... Read more
Viasat has received a five-year contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with handheld radios designed to accommodate Link 16 communications, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday. Read more
Lockheed Martin is slated to complete the critical design review phase for a hypersonic weapon system for the U.S. Air Force, FlightGlobal magazine reported Thursday. Read more
Cisco has secured an “In Process” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a software-defined wide area network offering for government customers. Read more
SAPA Transmission has finished initial work to build a new headquarters and production plant in Shelby Township, Mich. Read more
Telos has entered into an agreement with Brandes Associates Inc. to deliver secure organizational messaging services for intelligence customers. Read more
Splunk’s Frank Dimina: DoD Should Start With Common Data Platform for Joint All-Domain C2 Capability
Frank Dimina, vice president of public sector at Splunk, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that the Department of Defense should leverage a common data platform that is scalable and can handle large amounts of data from a... Read more
Raytheon and IronNet Cybersecurity have teamed up to develop cyber platforms that could be used to defend operational and information technology systems against threat actors. Read more
The Air Force Association has unveiled the finalists for a competition that seeks to augment the students’ cybersecurity capabilities. Read more
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, Director of Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Named to 2020 Wash100 for Pushing AI Initiatives, Improving Recruitment
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, director of the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for leading the new agency as... Read more