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Roy Azevedo on Key Ideas That Drive Raytheon’s Military Tech Dev’t Efforts
A Forbes article about a conversation with Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon's space and airborne systems unit, highlights some of the ideas that drive the company’s military technology development initiatives. One of the ideas Azevedo cited is the transition from warfighting “platforms†toward the adoption of flexible “systems of systems†when it comes to modern warfare, according to the article published Monday.
DARPA Seeks Proposals for Fourth OFFSET Swarm Sprint, Announces Third Sprint Awardees
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced two awardees for the third sprint of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program and begun to seek proposals for the fourth sprint. Soar Technology and Carnegie Mellon University received separate contracts to perform work under the OFFSET program’s third sprint, which aims to explore new human-swarm teaming technologies, DARPA said Monday.
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MaryAnn Hoadley Named Isobar Federal Business Dev’t SVP
MaryAnn Hoadley, a more than three-decade information technology veteran, has been appointed senior vice president of federal business development at digital services company Isobar, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.
Maximus Federal’s Andy Beamon: Agencies Should Understand Differences Between AI, Other Citizen Service Delivery Tools
Andy Beamon, vice president of digital solutions for citizen services at Maximus’ federal business, has said federal agencies seeking to transform the delivery of citizen services should understand how robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, bots and cognitive computing differ from one another. “Understanding the differences between them is important as it impacts both the citizens’ experience and government agencies navigating the procurement process,†Beamon wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday.
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Collins Aerospace to Help Sustain Coast Guard Aircraft Avionics Under Potential $83M Contract
United Technologies Corp.'s Collins Aerospace business received an potential five-year, $83.1M contract to provide sustaining engineering and technical support for the avionics systems of U.S. Coast Guard aircraft.
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Lockheed-Raytheon Team to Chase Multi-Agency Surveillance, Air Traffic Control Modernization Program
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have partnered to compete for a multi-agency program aimed at modernizing U.S. air traffic control and surveillance systems.
Mike Leff: AT&T to Help Department of Navy Transition to FirstNet Public Safety Broadband Network
The Department of the Navy has agreed to deploy a national public safety broadband network from AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority across Navy and Marine Corps installations in the U.S., Seeking Alpha reported Monday. “We are honored to help the Department of the Navy transition to the FirstNet public safety communications platform,†said Mike Leff, vice president for defense at AT&T’s public sector business.
Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, DIA Director, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Leading Agency Modernization Efforts
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Army Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading the agency's modernization efforts with emerging technology.
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Maryland to Adopt Tyler Technologies’ Socrata Connected Government Cloud Platform
Tyler Technologies has announced that the state of Maryland will be deploying the Socrata Connected Government Cloud platform. The Texas-based software company said Thursday that, with SCGC, Maryland seeks to make its data services simultaneously more efficient and secure, as well as facilitate collaboration between state agencies and departments.
Emily Murphy, GSA Administrator, Earns 2019 Wash100 Award for Innovation in Program Management and Government Contracting
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Emily Murphy, administrator of the General Services Administration, was inducted into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for innovation in federal contracting and program management. This latest honor marks the second time she received the award.