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Booz Allen’s Greg Wenzel: Advancing JADC2 Requires DOD to Build Single, Open Architecture

Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said countering technologically advanced adversaries requires the Department of Defense to come up with a unified, open network that could enable warfighters to quickly access, share and analyze disparate data sets and facilitate the decision-making process on the battlefield. […] More

by Jane Edwards September 9, 2021, 11:29 am
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Brian McMahon: ManTech Demos Secure Tactical Edge Platform in Denied Environments

Brian McMahon, director of cloud architecture at ManTech International, said the company secured a contract via the Defense Commercial Solutions Opening Pilot program after demonstrating its Secure Tactical Edge Platform in a denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited environment during a U.S. Navy demonstration in late 2020. McMahon wrote in an article published Tuesday that ST3P […] More

by Jane Edwards August 18, 2021, 11:41 am
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UH-60V Helicopter With Northrop’s Avionics Package Achieves First Unit Equipped Status
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Jim Taiclet on Lockheed’s Pivot Toward ‘Network Effect’ Strategy

Jim Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the company plans to work with commercial technology and telecommunications sectors to improve the ability of legacy platforms, like the F-35 fighter jet, to process data and integrate new capabilities through open architecture, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Taiclet […] More

by Jane Edwards July 27, 2021, 12:37 pm
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Ian Northrop: JHNA Pursues Additional M&A Opportunities as Part of Growth Strategy

Ian Northrop, CEO of digital engineering firm JHNA, said the company is looking to make more acquisitions as the Department of Defense increases adoption of open-architecture systems as part of its modernization efforts, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. “I’m eager, we have a pipeline of opportunities, we have other owners we are talking to,” […] More

by Jane Edwards June 18, 2021, 12:16 pm
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Lockheed Supports DOD’s Joint All Domain Operations Goal Through Experimentation; Stephanie Hill Quoted

Companies like Lockheed Martin are participating in joint exercises to help the Department of Defense come up with a joint all-domain operations platform that can link sensors to shooters to achieve decision dominance, Breaking Defense reported Monday. “[It’s] about machine learning, artificial intelligence, eventually quantum computing—the speed at which they’re able to operate, and really […] More

by Jane Edwards June 15, 2021, 11:58 am
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Executive Spotlight: Todd Probert, President of National Security and Innovative Solutions for CACI International

Todd Probert, president of Operations for National Security and Innovative Solutions (NSIS) for CACI International and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding his efforts to drive CACI’s growth initiatives in the national security space, the challenges his customers are facing, the latest initiatives involving electronic warfare for the U.S. military.

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by William McCormick April 21, 2021, 10:15 am
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Raytheon Technologies Aiming to Help Military Pilots Respond to Threats via ‘Converged EW’ Approach

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space unit has embarked on a project to develop a threat detection approach for military aircraft operators that will fuse electronic warfare, cyber and signals intelligence tools into a single open-architecture system, dubbed Converged EW.

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by Mary-Louise Hoffman November 23, 2020, 2:56 am
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Raytheon Displays Missile Defense Radar Offering at AUSA Conference
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General Dynamics Installs Naval Strike Missile Aboard LCS 10

General Dynamics' mission systems business has installed a naval strike missile on an Independence-class littoral combat ship to augment the vessel's defensive capabilities and mission readiness.

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by Matthew Nelson September 27, 2019, 5:03 am
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Chris Bogdan: Booz Allen Eyes Open Architecture for Ground C2 System

Chris Bogdan, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, said the company is interested in developing a ground-based command-and-control system with an open architecture designed to support satellites used for national security missions, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.

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by Jane Edwards September 26, 2019, 4:17 am
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Report: Raytheon Preps Combat Aircraft for “˜Friend or Foe' ID Mode 5 Requirement

Raytheon plans to equip military aircraft with an identification friend or foe interrogator system to comply with an IFF mandate by June 30, 2020, Avionics International reported Wednesday.

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by Jane Edwards September 20, 2019, 5:27 am