The U.S. Navy provided the media a glimpse of its Sea Hunter II drone warship that is expected to join its fleet by the end of 2020, CNBC reported Wednesday. Leidos is working with United States Marine to develop Sea Hunter II at a facility in Gulfport, Miss., under a contract awarded in 2017.

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Executive Mosaic, the leading executive media and events company in the government contracting “GovCon” industry, announced the 2020 winners of the highly coveted and prestigious Wash100 Award. The full list of winners and more information about the award can be found on Wash100.com. 

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MicroTech has chosen Dr. Barry West as president, who will oversee corporate business operations and development, as well as the expansion of cybersecurity and cloud computing offerings, the Tysons, Va., company announced Tuesday. Tony Jimenez, who formerly held both the president and chief executive officer titles, said the company’s level of growth necessitated the addition […] More

Barry Pike, program executive officer for missiles and space at the U.S. Army, has said the service considers using the Stryker combat vehicle as the basis for its provisional Manuever-Short-Range Air Defense system in response to a SHORAD capability gap identified in Europe in 2016, Defense News reported Thursday. “At this point it’s going to be […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued its Security Technical Implementation Guide approval to a MobileIron-built mobile device management platform for deployment at the Defense Department. DISA cleared the MobileIron Core platform for use on iOS and Android devices in certain DoD-run networks, the company said Thursday. “The DoD Mobile Device Strategy encourages a highly mobile workforce for greater mission effectiveness,” said Barry […] More

A U.S. Air National Guard unit has discharged eight laser-guided bomb training units built by Lockheed Martin from a fighter aircraft during flight tests conducted at the Barry M. Goldwater Ranges near Gila Bend in Arizona. The ANG unit evaluated the Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds on the F-16C/D Block 40/42 aircraft and the ELGTR assessments indicated an accuracy of within 9.8 feet, Lockheed said […] More

A NASA spacecraft with a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory-built instrument that works to measure high-energy particles is scheduled to reach Jupiter on July 4 as part of a mission to study the planet and the universe. Johns Hopkins APL’s Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument onboard the Lockheed Martin-built Juno spacecraft has three detectors designed […] More

Mitre has expanded its partnership with Allied Minds to provide the latter company exclusive access to some of the nonprofit’s patented inventions and related technical information. The new agreement allows the Allied Minds Federal Innovations organization to review Mitre’s intellectual property portfolio and to potentially license technology into companies established by AMFI, Allied Minds said Tuesday. AMFI-formed companies will be given capital, central management and startup […] More

BARRY BARLOW VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER VENCORE, INC. Barry Barlow is the vice president and chief technology officer at Vencore, Inc. In this role, he ensures Vencore is positioned for short- and long-term success by assessing the technology needs of its customers, partners and suppliers, as well as developing a corporate technology road-map […] More

Executives from government contracting companies have discussed during a conference how to address the scarcity of cyber talent and where future cyber skills will come from, GCN reported Friday. Bob Fecteau, chief information officer of Science Applications International Corp., told audiences at the Commonwealth Conference on Cyber and Education that government agencies and private companies […] More

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal systems business, has received FedScoop’s Industry Leadership award in recognition of his work in the field of federal information technology, FedScoop reported Friday. FedScoop founder and CEO Goldy Kamali presented the awards in nine categories to 50 industry and government leaders in the federal IT sector during an awards ceremony held Thursday at […] More

Dell SecureWorks has introduced a malware detection and protection service offering that is intended to help organizations counter advanced threats. The malware detection system incorporates Dell SecureWorks’ threat intelligence and Lastline’s malware defense platform, Dell said Monday. The technology is designed to monitor and review email, file and Web traffic on an organization’s network. “Once […] More