Technological advancements have led both the United States and its adversaries further into the space domain, bringing about a host of new threats. To address these challenges, the Department of Defense is investing heavily in space capabilities – with its 2024 space budget request being its largest yet. The DOD’s plan for the space domain encompasses numerous […] More

Activity in the Wash100 Award popular vote contest is abuzz this week as we enter the second half of the race. Some executives have regained the leads they had in the early going, while other fresher faces are steadily making their way up the top 30. It’s becoming a more exciting race by the day, only […] More

NASA and Maxar Technologies have reviewed programmatic and technical requirements for the power and propulsion element of the agency's planned Gateway base on the moon.

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A newly established institute of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Foundation will invest approximately $3.5 million over the next two years to support research and development efforts on microelectronics, Government Technology reported Friday. The Applied Research Institute will look to create microelectronics technologies that can mitigate counterfeit challenges and cyber attacks to help members of the […] More

Alex Heidt serves as a senior vice president and general manager at Alion Science and Technology, which he joined in March 2013 after service as SVP and GM at Harris Corp.’s information technology services business. Heidt has also served as a VP of Air Force programs at Harris and was responsible for profit-and-loss management, program execution, and business […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the cybersecurity market for U.S. federal agencies to grow 7.41 percent in value by 2018. The report covers the period of 2014 through 2018 and consideres the revenue from the sales of cybersecurity services to the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department and the U.S. intelligence community, Research and Markets said Thursday. […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency will begin the process for awarding contracts under the third-generation ENCORE information technology services vehicle in fiscal 2015, Deltek‘s Alex Rossino reported Tuesday. Rossino, a Deltek principal research analyst, estimates that defense agencies invested approximately $5.8 billion in IT offerings through the second ENCORE iteration. His analysis of the ENCORE […] More

Joe Stein, the retired U.S. Air Force Major General who most recently helped lead the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense’s policy posture with NATO and Europe, has joined SkyLink Aviation as the firm’s senior executive for operational strategy. The company pointed to Stein’s leadership experience as a commander of large aviation organizations, and at […] More