The healthcare industry has tapped into the power of information technology to improve operations, user experience, and the level of medical care. Register here to learn what the foremost healthcare leaders are doing to enhance IT capabilities for the healthcare landscape at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Healthcare Summit.   Lisa Gardner is the Vice […] More

Intelsat held an investor day on Nov. 30 during which officials offered attendees a look at the company's finances. Intelsat CEO and seven-time Wash100 awardee David Wajsgras said during the event that his company is positioned to deliver $2.1 billion in revenue this year.

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Kenneth Bedingfield has been selected to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer of L3Harris Technologies, effective Dec. 11. In his new role, Bedingfield will guide the company’s financial strategy while overseeing its global finance team, L3Harris announced from its Melbourne, Florida headquarters on Monday.

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DZYNE Technologies will open a new manufacturing and research and development facility in Irvine, California, to accommodate its growing workforce of engineers, researchers and manufacturing personnel and support its development of uncrewed autonomous systems for defense applications. The 125,000-square-foot facility will be showcased in the new year along with the company's autonomous defense offerings and manufacturing capabilities.

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RavenTek has partnered with cybersecurity services provider NuHarbor Security to develop a unified offering to enable public sector customers to deploy and manage multiple capabilities on Splunk. The offering will combine RavenTek's RavenVISION framework with NuHarbor's cybersecurity and managed security operations center services to provide government organizations access to integrated Splunk security and information technology observability capabilities, RavenTek said Thursday.

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being implemented in telehealth and health IT security, and medical companies need to adopt a platform-first approach to maximize their investment in the technology, said Tim Boltz, sales director at Carahsoft. In an article published Friday, Boltz provided highlights of the Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM conference in Chicago.

Technology is a vital element of healthcare services. Join the Potomac Officers Club in discussing health IT at the 2023 Healthcare Summit on Dec. 6. Registration is still open.

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HII has christened the U.S. Navy's third America-class amphibious assault ship, named after Bougainville Island in the Solomons in honor of a World War 2 campaign that dismantled the Japanese stronghold. Ellyn Dunford, wife of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Joe Dunford Jr., sponsored the christening of USS Bougainville, the company said Saturday.

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SpaceX has entered into a contract to help Amazon deploy Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit satellite broadband network, by providing launch services using the Falcon 9 vehicle beginning mid-2025. Amazon said Saturday that the contract involves the provision of three Falcon 9 launches to augment a total of 77 heavy-lift rocket launches already secured from Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance.

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Anduril has unveiled Roadrunner, a vertical takeoff and landing-capable autonomous air vehicle, and its ground-based air defense variant, Roadrunner-Munition. Roadrunner features a twin-jet engine and a modular payload system while Roadrunner-M features target interception capabilities and reusability if it is not used to destroy the target, Anduril said Frida.

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Pragyansmita Nayak, chief data scientist at Hitachi Vantara's federal subsidiary, has outlined strategic steps to integrate artificial intelligence tools into government systems to optimize operations, enhance security and achieve mission objectives. Federal agencies must first establish a data management strategy, focusing on data provenance and lineage, to ensure data quality and prevent the infiltration of "poisoned" data that threat actors may exploit to disrupt AI systems, Nayak wrote in an opinion article Federal News Network published Friday.

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Assurance Technology Corp. has secured a $70 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide the Navy with development support and integration services for optical and radio frequency payload systems. Work will be carried out at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., through November 2028.

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Register here for the 2024 Space Summit. A discount awaits the early bird. Alternately, opt to become a POC member to get updated with the latest events, summits, and conferences.   Doug Wagoner, CEO of LMI, has been in the limelight recently as he earned another feather in his cap with a large contract award […] More