ExecutiveBiz News on Video 12/28/2021

Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, spoke with ExecutiveBiz for the publication’s latest Executive Spotlight interview discussing the positive results of Booz Allen’s second quarter and new market opportunities for its customers as well as the long term success of JADC2, the impact of emerging technologies on training modernization […]

Volansi has partnered with Sierra Nevada Corp. to provide the U.S. Army with an unmanned aircraft system offering designed for vertical take-off and landing. The Army selected the Volansi/SNC VTOL platform as a potential product under the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Increment 2 program, as a result of the technology’s durability and redundancy, Volansi […]

Stratascorp Technologies has secured a $31.2 million task order from the U.S. Navy to continue supporting afloat operations and sustainment of Military Sealift Command’s command, control, communications and computers capabilities. The information technology company said Monday it will offer technical services in support of MSC Network Operations Centers, C4 capabilities aboard MSC ships and future […]

The Defense Innovation Unit released Responsible Artificial Intelligence guidelines that call for stakeholders to develop AI platforms using the principles of transparency, fairness and accountability and Northrop Grumman is adopting RAI principles to help establish trust in AI tools that the Department of Defense will rely on for all-domain operations, particularly in advancing the Joint […]

Raytheon Technologies has received a two-year, $18.15 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to provide subject matter expertise on the service branch’s decades-old medium-range and surface-to-air guided missile. The defense contractor will support the Army HAWK Missile System from its facilities in Andover, Massachusetts, through Dec. 31, 2023, the Department of Defense said Monday. […]

A new Research and Markets report says the increased adoption of high energy laser-based systems to counter airborne threats and investments in research and development of such technologies by militaries worldwide will help increase the demand for high energy lasers. The market research company said Friday it predicts that the global market for high energy […]

NASA has equipped its newly launched James Webb Space Telescope with an advanced infrared camera from Lockheed Martin to support the telescope’s mission to see the universe’s oldest light. The Near Infrared Camera serves as Webb’s primary imager that will sense incoming infrared light to help the telescope align an array of 18 mirror segments […]

OneWeb‘s 36 digital communications satellites have reached low-Earth orbit following their recent launch onboard an Arianespace rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The U.K. space communications company said Monday its ninth launch in 12 months brings its planned 648-satellite LEO constellation for high-speed and low-latency global connectivity to more than 60 percent complete. With […]

Amazon Web Services has provided resources and recommendations to help organizations address a newly discovered vulnerability associated with the Log4j Java-based logging utility, which is part of the Apache Software Foundation’s logging services project. AWS released a GitHub-available tool that users can run to hotpatch Java Virtual Machines with Log4j 2.0 and later versions, Mukhtar […]

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2021 — Leidos will provide support services for the nationwide safety efforts of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under a potential $61.5 million Priority Services Scientific, Engineering and Technical Assistance prime contract, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 15. Roy Stevens, president of intelligence group at Leidos, said the company will […]