Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson recently presented David McKeown, senior information security officer and deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity at the Department of Defense, with his 2023 Wash100 Award. The annual Wash100 Award – which reached its historic 10th anniversary this year – represents the highest honor for executives in the vast government contracting industry. To identify the […] More

The State Department has approved a potential $293 million foreign military sale of Raytheon Missiles & Defense-made Small Diameter Bomb II and related equipment to the Norwegian government. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday the government of Norway requested to purchase up to 580 rounds of GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bombs-Increment II from the U.S., […] More

CAES has incorporated an automated robotic tuning technology into its factory in San Jose, California, that supports a missile program of record. The company said Wednesday engineers used artificial intelligence and machine learning to create an algorithm to modernize the manufacturing process. CAES deployed the ART system to one of its high-volume production lines and […] More

DMI has been designated as an advanced tier services partner within the Amazon Web Services Partner Network for utilizing AWS services to optimize enterprise cloud deployments. With the new partner status, DMI’s team of AWS-trained and certified professionals will continue supporting government and commercial customers in cloud migration and application development, DevSecOps and serverless computing […] More

Coalfire, Carahsoft Technology and Google’s public sector arm have formed a partnership to provide enterprise software-as-a-service companies with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program assessment and consulting services to speed up their FedRAMP authority-to-operate certification and expand into new federal markets. Under the partnership, Coalfire will provide FedRAMP advisory services to enable Carahsoft and Google […] More

NTT DATA Services has signed a deal with Lerner Sports Group to provide a data analytics platform for event management at the Nationals Park baseball stadium in Washington, D.C. The Smart Venue Technology will work to analyze data from internet-of-things devices for Washington Nationals’ ballpark personnel to manage points of entry and concession wait times, […] More

Anduril Industries demonstrated its two Menace command and control hardware systems during the Northern Edge 23-1 exercise hosted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command between April 28 and May 20 across the Gulf of Alaska and the Joint Pacific-Alaska Range Complex. Menace, which was unveiled in September 2022, is an expeditionary command, control, communications and computing system […] More

The U.S. Air Force and Boeing have performed the maiden flight of the service’s first T-7A Red Hawk pilot training aircraft to signal the beginning of the program’s engineering and manufacturing development phase. The digitally designed trainer jet flew for 1 hour and 3 minutes and demonstrated its ability to support fighter and bomber pilot […] More

Motorola Solutions has booked a 12-month, $31.6 million contract to sustain enterprise land mobile radios for the U.S. Navy Installations Command. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization issued the sole-source, firm-fixed-price award for LMR sustainment services slated to run through June 27, 2024, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. Contract work will primarily occur at […] More

Northrop Grumman was two years ahead of its target date for delivering an Integrated Battle Command System training platform to the government of Poland. Early training will enable Poland to be the first U.S. ally to deploy IBCS to the field, the company said Wednesday. Northrop’s Air Defense Reconfigurable Trainer features both in-person training and […] More

Hypersonic weapons are a major area of contestation for the U.S. with near peer competitors like China. Part of the main thrust of the military alliance between the U.S., Australia and the United Kindom, AUKUS, is the development of these weapons, which can travel at a blistering speed of Mach 5, or five times the speed […] More

Alutiiq’s McCallie Associates subsidiary has selected KBR as a subcontractor for a five-year, $300 million NASA project that seeks to enhance mission integration at the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Wallops Flight Facility. KBR said Wednesday the Systems Engineering Advanced Services II contract aims to improve end-to-end development processes across various segments of a mission, […] More