Horace Blackman has been elevated to the position of senior vice president and lead of defense, intelligence and space at CGI Federal. Blackman, who previously led the company’s health and human services sector, will be tasked to helm growth efforts and develop strategy for the defense, intelligence and space business unit, the Fairfax, Virginia-based CGI subsidiary said […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $42.15 million contract to help sustain the U.S. Army’s fleet of H-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Sikorsky will deliver non-personal technical services to the service branch at locations yet to be determined and must complete sustainment work by Dec. 31, 2026, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The Army […] More

A Black Hawk helicopter completed its first unmanned flight with the use of an autonomy technology suite Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary developed under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. The Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System, which includes Sikorsky Matrix hardware and software, flew an uninhabited UH-60A aircraft for 30 minutes over Fort Campbell in […] More

Data analytics company Black Cape has announced the promotion of technical recruiter Jordan Barlow, human resources professional Bobbi Gilbert and technologists Kristin Greenslit and Ben Parrish to director roles. Barlow will serve as director of recruiting and oversee a team that would work to grow Black Cape’s workforce in support of the company’s national security […] More

CACI International will deliver 40 optical communications terminals for inter-satellite links to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under a $16.3 million contract awarded to SA Photonics, which was acquired by the Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor in December, Space News reported Saturday. The terminals are envisioned to facilitate data transfer for the Department of Defense’s […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary received a special airworthiness certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration permitting the sale of a Black Hawk helicopter variant for limited civil and commercial operations. The FAA certification allows non-military customers to acquire the S-70M straight from factory and use the aircraft in agricultural, external cargo and forest and wildlife conservation […] More

BlackSky plans to add two new Spectra AI-powered satellites to its constellation in a future launch that will bring the company’s total number of satellites on orbit to ten. The company said Tuesday it will add the satellites through a scheduled rideshare launch with SpaceX, managed by Spaceflight Inc., to increase BlackSky’s geospatial capacity for data, […] More

BlackSky has expanded its constellation of real-time geospatial monitoring satellites with the launch of two spacecraft into orbit to meet global customers’ requirements for Earth imaging and global intelligence services. The company said Thursday the satellites are operational and, within 14 hours of launch, have collected and transferred their first imagery into the Spectra AI […] More

A report by cyber risk assessment company Black Kite showed that the computer systems for 20 percent of the 100 largest defense companies in the U.S. are vulnerable to ransomware attacks. Forty-three percent of surveyed contractors still use outdated technology and 42 percent had at least one credential that has been compromised during a 90-day […] More

Robb LeMasters, former managing director at Blue Harbor Group, has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer of BWX Technologies, effective Nov. 15. As part of BWXT’s executive succession planning process, LeMasters will succeed 30-year company veteran David Black, who has served as SVP and CFO since 2015, Lynchburg, Virginia-based government contractor said Friday. LeMasters currently […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 19, 2021 — Criterion Systems established SAGE Black as its wholly-owned subsidiary operating under its intelligence solutions business unit after the cybersecurity and information technology company completed its acquisition of the software engineering services provider, GovCon Wire reported Sept. 29. Promod Sharma, president and CEO of Criterion, said both companies’ core […] More

BlackBerry has teamed up with Deloitte to bring an integrated software security offering to the companies’ joint customers across the aerospace, medical and automotive industries. The partnership intends to use the BlackBerry’s Jarvis tool to help original equipment manufacturers analyze code provenance and software products that enter their supply chains, the company said Thursday. Deloitte […] More