ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/7/2021

Dana Barnes, senior vice president of Palo Alto Networks’ Public Sector and 2021 Wash100 Award winner, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for the publication’s latest Executive Spotlight interview. During the interview, Dana Barnes discussed the challenges of creating a productive culture, the impact that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are having on the federal workforce […]

The U.S. Navy has selected Leidos for an effort that seeks to provide the Marines with a multi-domain radar for a contested environment as the current radio frequency radar assets are limited in mobility and prone to detection and attacks. Leidos will work under a potential $49.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the MuDRaCE effort during […]

Mantech International has secured a 10-year, $476 million prime contract award to support the space launch programs of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, formerly the Space and Missile Center. The company said Tuesday it will provide launch service integration, fleet surveillance and certification and other engineering services in support of space and missile […]

BlueHalo has demonstrated its Group 1 unmanned aerial systems as part of a Defense Innovation Unit project that seeks domestically produced small UAS options for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. The company said Thursday it met DIU’s preflight, mission planning and launch requirements during the initial demonstration of five drone platforms that […]

Accenture‘s federal arm has secured a potential $22.5 million from Washington Headquarters Services to provide warehouse utilization services to the Department of Defense. DOD said Friday it aims to increase the use of storage space in department-operated warehouses up to 75 percent and save more than $575 million through the initiative. Under the one-year base […]

Robert Cardillo, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and a four-time Wash100 awardee, said the U.S. should support its space-based infrastructure with a responsive launch capability to help deter adversaries and improve national security. He wrote in a commentary published Friday on Defense News that the Department of Defense should come up with resources […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected research teams for a program that seeks to build automated tools and techniques to help analysts detect, track and characterize geopolitical influence campaigns online. DARPA said Thursday the research teams selected for the Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking program will be led by Smart Information Flow Technologies, […]

Corelight has secured $75 million in a Series D investment that the San Francisco-based security company plans to use on its open network detection and response platform as well as on its efforts to globally expand market presence. Energy Impact Partners led the financing round, which marked the inclusion of H.I.G. Growth Partners as a […]

Raft will collaborate with a software factory within the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation on a platform development effort as part of a prime contract the U.S. Space Force awarded to the Reston, Virginia-based technology consulting firm. The company and USSF’s Space Camp will engineer a continuous integration/continuous delivery platform to provide Space Operations […]

A Raytheon Technologies business unit completed the initial flight test of an air-launched effects drone that it designed to meet the size, weight and power requirements of the Future Vertical Lift program of the U.S. Army. The ALE air vehicle leveraged Raytheon Missiles and Defense’s Coyote uncrewed aircraft system design and accomplished all flight objectives […]