The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that veterans who use TracFone Wireless phones now have free mobile data connectivity to access the VA Video Connect telehealth service.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight industry and academic entities for the fifth OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics tech sprint focused on conducting human-machine teaming activities in urban environments.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Christopher Kubasik, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for his leadership during the merger of L3 Technologies and the Harris Corporation in 2019 as well as his efforts to advance military capabilities for the U.S. 

Julian Marquez, formerly director of health information technology strategic programs at Smartronix, has joined Red River as vice president of federal consulting services, FedHealthIT reported Thursday.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency conducted the third field experiment under an effort that aims to implement the use of autonomous swarms in urban operations.

Jeff Stovall and Dennis John, former chief information officers at local governments, have been appointed to serve as directors of strategy and development for state and local applications at Oracle.

CAE plans to demonstrate its new continuum and virtual reality training system with the T-6 operational flight trainer during the Interservice/Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference this week, Defense News reported Monday. The I/ITSEC 2019 event will feature the Sprint VR trainer hardware and the TRAXX Academy courseware plus software.

Scott Blackburn, a partner at McKinsey and Company, has said that federal agencies can improve public trust by following the Department of Veterans Affairs’ example of organizational transformation.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded 450 research and development contracts with a cumulative value of $140M to small businesses through an accelerated contracting initiative.

Executives at L3 Technologies said a potential $500M contract the company won from the Air Force to update the avionics systems of 176 C-130H airlifters is one of the signs of the company’s cultural shift through its adoption of “innovation sprints,” Defense One reported Sunday.

Joel Jackson, senior director of emerging product sales for Red Hat’s North America public sector group, said cloud, microservices and automation are among the modern software design’s building blocks that could reinforce federal information technology modernization efforts, Federal News Network reported Monday.

Lockheed Martin and Red Hat have produced an open source architecture in efforts to accelerate the development and delivery of software-based applications for the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor jets.