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Army’s Young Bang Calls for Industry Help With Autonomy & Robotics, Shares Innovation Best Practices

“Innovation is positive disruption…And give us true innovation and solve problems, not incrementally automate the things that we already know how to do,” said the U.S. Army's Young Bang at ExecutiveBiz’s Army Acquisition Priorities Forum on Wednesday.

To gain more insight into the research and development work that goes into various DOD components’ arms and technology production, be sure to attend the Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 31. Register here now!

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by Charles Lyons-Burt November 9, 2023, 11:28 am
in Executive Moves, News

MAG Aerospace Appoints Retired Army General Stephen Townsend to Advisory Board

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend has been selected as an advisory board member at MAG Aerospace, a provider of command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance offerings. He brings over 40 years of military experience to the company, having served in leadership positions in platoons, corps and joint task forces, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company announced on Thursday.

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by Ireland Degges November 9, 2023, 10:57 am
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Lockheed’s Jim Taiclet Cites Need for Digital Tech Investment to Back National Defense

Jim Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said the U.S. needs to prevent future armed conflict by investing in digital technologies. "What we're trying to do at our company is be a bit of a path finder, to drive 21st century digital technologies into our armed forces and national defense," Taiclet told CNBC's Jim Cramer in an interview.

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by Jane Edwards November 9, 2023, 10:47 am
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Lockheed’s Jim Taiclet Cites Need for Digital Tech Investment to Back National Defense

Jim Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said the U.S. needs to prevent future armed conflict by investing in digital technologies. "What we're trying to do at our company is be a bit of a path finder, to drive 21st century digital technologies into our armed forces and national defense," Taiclet told CNBC's Jim Cramer in an interview.

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by Jane Edwards November 9, 2023, 10:47 am
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Cognosante Achieves Milestone in VA Cloud Migration Effort; Philip Dietz Quoted

A Cognosante project team has moved over 350 Department of Veterans Affairs production applications to the VA Enterprise Cloud five months ahead of the deadline. VA intended to transition its systems to VAEC by 2024 and tapped Cognosante to develop and execute a cloud migration strategy, the company said Wednesday.

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by Jane Edwards November 9, 2023, 10:36 am
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BWXT to Support AFRL Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear Power Program; Joseph Miller Quoted

BWX Technologies has partnered with Lockheed Martin and Space Nuclear Power Corporation to contribute to an Air Force Research Laboratory program focused on advancing technologies for spacecraft employing nuclear electric power systems. Under the collaboration, the company said Wednesday it will produce and test nuclear fuels and components as well as support design and system integration at its facilities in Lynchburg, Virginia, in support of the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear program.

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by Kacey Roberts November 9, 2023, 10:23 am
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Concept Plus Receives Growth Investment From Blue Delta; Ahmad Abuzaakouk Quoted

Federal IT solutions and services provider Concept Plus has received a growth investment from Blue Delta Capital Partners. Concept Plus said Wednesday that its “strategic growth evolution” will be supported by the venture capital firm's minority-ownership investment.

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by Aidan Daly November 9, 2023, 10:23 am
in Cybersecurity, News

Defense, Security Experts Say Mission Partner Environments Benefit From Zero Trust

Defense and national security experts said at a recent conference that mission partner environments, which rely on trusted networks to communicate and share sensitive and classified data, can enhance their security with the help of zero trust architecture. Industry leaders, including Darren Pulsipher, chief solution architect for Intel's public sector business, and Charles White, chief technology officer of Fornetix, were part of a panel at the TechNet Indo-Pacific Conference hosted by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.

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by Jamie Bennet November 9, 2023, 10:02 am
in Artificial Intelligence, News

TechnoMile Introduces AI-Powered Platform That Identifies Federal Contracting Opportunities; Ashish Khot Quoted

Cloud platform provider TechnoMile unveiled GovSearchAI during Elevate 2023, the company's annual customer conference. GovSearchAI is an artificial intelligence-powered platform that works to help government contractors identify the federal contracting opportunities they would be in a position to win, TechnoMile said Thursday.

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by Jerry Petersen November 9, 2023, 9:03 am
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Rocket Lab to Deploy Hypersonix Spacecraft for HASTE Mission

Rocket Lab USA has inked an agreement with the Defense Innovation Unit to conduct a Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron mission featuring a scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicle constructed by Australian company Hypersonix. The DART AE vehicle, capable of achieving speeds of up to Mach 7 with non-ballistic flight patterns, is set to launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island as early as the first quarter of 2025, Rocket Lab said Wednesday.

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by Kacey Roberts November 9, 2023, 9:00 am
in Contract Awards, News

BAE’s R&D Organization to Develop Microelectronics for Naval Platforms

BAE Systems' FAST Labs was tapped by the Office of Naval Research to create Gallium Nitride-based monolithic microwave integrated circuit and module electronics as part of the Common-architecture Amplifier for Low-cost, Efficient, SWaP-Constrained Environments or COALESCE program.

Learn about other research and development efforts of the Department of Defense by joining the Potomac Officers Club's 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 31. Register here!

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by Christine Thropp November 9, 2023, 8:52 am
in Executive Moves, News

Jeanmarie Brown Takes On Chief Operating Officer Role at Digital Consultancy Firm Raft

Digital consultancy and engineering firm Raft has appointed Jeanmarie Brown as chief operating officer. In a press release issued Tuesday to Executive Mosaic, Raft said that in her new role, Brown will work to grow the company's services, lead its daily operations and oversee the execution of its strategic plan.

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by Jerry Petersen November 8, 2023, 11:43 am