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  • Sierra7 Apppoints Booz Allen Vet Susan Kemp as Consulting & Analytics Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra7 Apppoints Booz Allen Vet Susan Kemp as Consulting & Analytics Director

    Susan Kemp, a 27-year Booz Allen Hamilton veteran and former senior manager at Prometheus Federal Services, has joined Sierra7 as director of consulting and analytics. She will be responsible for expanding client relationships and providing continuous support for the Veterans Health Administration, the Falls Church, Viginia-based consulting company said Monday. The new director will also be in charge of […] More

  • Infoscitex Announces Exec Changes in Reorganization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Infoscitex Announces Exec Changes in Reorganization Effort

    Infoscitex, a DCS subsidiary, has promoted three company executives and made a new hire in line with its current strategy to continue business expansion. In a statement on Monday, IST Executive Vice President and Sector Operations Manager of Air and Space Operations Mike Gilkey said the reorganization is aimed at positioning the company “to pursue new […] More

  • General Dynamics Business to Modernize Space Systems Command’s Digital Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Business to Modernize Space Systems Command’s Digital Platform

    General Dynamics’ information technology business will update the legacy systems of the U.S. Space Systems Command under an $18 million contract from the Space Enterprise Consortium. SpEC manager National Security Technology Accelerator said Friday General Dynamics Information Technology will handle the Enigma prototype project aimed at creating a digital network that allows for platform-as-a-service capability and […] More

  • Boeing Kicks Off Construction of New Facility at Cecil Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Kicks Off Construction of New Facility at Cecil Airport

    Boeing has started building its second facility at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, WJCT News reported Thursday. The company will use the new component operations facility for inspecting and repairing U.S. Navy and Air Force aircraft parts and will stand near Boeing’s other maintenance facility that is also being built in the same area. Construction of […] More

  • Red 6 to Equip TF-50 Aircraft With Augmented Reality Training Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red 6 to Equip TF-50 Aircraft With Augmented Reality Training Tech

    Red 6 will integrate its augmented reality training platform into the TF-50 jets that Lockheed Martin, Korea Aerospace Industries co-developed. The Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System is intended to provide pilots and ground operators with new capabilities to spot and react to real-time, high-speed synthetic threat environments, Lockheed said Tuesday. Under the partnership, ATARS will be applied […] More

  • Microsoft's Federal Arm Wraps Up DIB Cybersecurity Assessment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Federal Arm Wraps Up DIB Cybersecurity Assessment

    Microsoft’s federal business has completed a Defense Contract Management Agency test that examined the company’s cybersecurity capabilities. The company said Tuesday it received a perfect score of 110 from DCMA’s Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center and certified third-party assessment organization Redspin for the Joint Surveillance Voluntary Assessment Program. Per federal rulemaking, the DIBCAC High Certificate […] More

  • Shift5 Board Adds Former SOCOM Commander Richard Clarke to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shift5 Board Adds Former SOCOM Commander Richard Clarke to Board of Directors

    Richard Clarke, a retired four-star general who served the U.S. Army for nearly 40 years, has joined the board of directors of Rosslyn, Virginia-based technology company Shift5. The company said Tuesday Clarke left the service in August 2022 as the commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Previously, he served as the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s director […] More

  • Riverside Research Assembles Team to Support DARPA's Computing Software Security Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverside Research Assembles Team to Support DARPA’s Computing Software Security Initiative

    Riverside Research has partnered with two companies and one university to develop technology under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at disrupting cyber attackers’ exploitation mechanism in computing platforms. The nonprofit scientific research organization on Monday unveiled High Peaks Cyber, BedRock Systems and Boston University as teammates on the Hardening Development Toolchains Against […] More

  • Edgar Sevilla Joins DTC Government Solutions as Chief Software Architect - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Edgar Sevilla Joins DTC Government Solutions as Chief Software Architect

    Edgar Sevilla, former cybersecurity and cyber operations director at Dark Wolf Solutions, was named chief software architect at Domo Tactical Communications‘ government solutions business. He will build on his his more than 25 years of experience in cyber operations, software development, systems integration and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, DTC said Monday. Sevilla previously worked for […] More

  • Lockheed VP Chris Stone Promoted to Chief Supply Chain Officer Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed VP Chris Stone Promoted to Chief Supply Chain Officer Role

    Chris Stone has been elevated to the dual role of vice president and chief supply chain officer at Lockheed Martin, according to his LinkedIn post published Friday. Prior to his promotion, he worked as the company’s vice president of supply chain for enterprise operations. He joined Lockheed in January 2021 after acting as VP of supply chain […] More

  • Authentication Company Aware to Demo Biometric Tech at Future Digital Finance Conference; Craig Herman Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Authentication Company Aware to Demo Biometric Tech at Future Digital Finance Conference; Craig Herman Quoted

    Global authentication company Aware will showcase its biometrics-based security mechanism offerings at the 2023 Future Digital Finance Conference in Austin, Texas. The company said Thursday it will demonstrate its mobile biometric authentication framework called Knomi and its software-as-a-service authentication platform dubbed AwareID at the event, which will take place from March 6 to 7 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. “Financial […] More

  • Boeing-Built Apache Helicopter Hits 5M Flight Hours - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Built Apache Helicopter Hits 5M Flight Hours

    Boeing’s AH-64 Apache attack aircraft has reached the mark of five million flight hours since the helicopter was fielded in 1984. The company said Thursday 1.3 million hours were achieved during combat and the milestone equates to flying nonstop for more than 208,333 days or 570 years and nine months. Apache was built in Mesa, Arizona, […] More