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  • Peraton Opens New Facility in Alabama
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    Peraton Opens New Facility in Alabama

    Peraton has opened a facility at Redstone Gateway in Huntsville, Alabama to provide security and technology services to federal agencies including the Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Army, FBI, Missile Defense Agency and NASA. The company said Tuesday the 27,000-square-foot facility includes over 12,000 sq. ft. of secure compartmentalized information space. Steve Schorer, chairman, president and CEO […] More

  • Booz Allen, Shield AI Seek to Enhance Uncrewed Military Systems
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    Booz Allen, Shield AI Seek to Enhance Uncrewed Military Systems

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Shield AI will collaborate to advance artificial intelligence-powered autonomy for uncrewed military systems to allow faster deployment in threat situations.  The team will combine Booz Allen’s mission engineering and Shield AI’s Hivemind Enterprise platform to bolster battlefield operations to give U.S. forces an advantage while protecting troops in complex environments and to support […] More

  • Dana Mehnert Named to Ultra I&C Board
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    Dana Mehnert Named to Ultra I&C Board

    Dana Mehnert, a former senior executive at L3Harris Technologies, will join Ultra Intelligence & Communications‘ board of directors this month. In a statement Monday, Jon Rucker, president and CEO of Ultra I&C and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said, “Throughout his career, Dana has demonstrated remarkable leadership in delivering mission-critical software defined communications solutions enabling transformative and rapid growth.” “His extensive […] More

  • DOD Platform One Grants AWS Marketplace ‘Awardable’ Status
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    DOD Platform One Grants AWS Marketplace ‘Awardable’ Status

    The Department of Defense’s Platform One Solutions Marketplace has designated Amazon Web Services Marketplace as “Awardable,” allowing DOD organizations to procure services from over 4,000 providers.   In an AWS blog posted on Friday, Josh Weatherly, global director of public sector industry partnerships and go-to-market for AWS Marketplace, said the “awardable designation will streamline and accelerate the department’s […] More

  • L3Harris Wins $79M Navy IDIQ to Enhance Undersea Training
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    L3Harris Wins $79M Navy IDIQ to Enhance Undersea Training

    L3Harris Technologies has won a $79.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to enhance its Undersea Training and Test and Evaluation range. The Department of Defense said Friday that L3Harris will handle operations, maintenance, repairs, logistics, modernization, cybersecurity and system upgrades for the range’s hardware and software.  The competitively awarded contract has a five-year ordering […] More

  • AWS Cloud Offerings Receive FedRAMP Authorizations
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    AWS Cloud Offerings Receive FedRAMP Authorizations

    Amazon Web Services has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program compliance for its AWS Verified Access and Amazon EMR Serverless offerings. The company said Friday that AWS Verified Access received a Moderate level authorization in the AWS US East and US West commercial regions and a High authorization in the AWS GovCloud regions. The company also […] More

  • Ask Sage AI Platform Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization
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    Ask Sage AI Platform Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization

    Ask Sage has received high authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its generative artificial intelligence platform, enabling government agencies and the Defense Industrial Base to deploy secure AI technologies. The Virginia-based company said Thursday the platform safely processes unclassified data, including personal, health and controlled unclassified information. Built for easy deployment, it […] More

  • BlueHalo Conducts Live Fire Tests of Advanced Counter-UAS Missile
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    BlueHalo Conducts Live Fire Tests of Advanced Counter-UAS Missile

    BlueHalo has completed live fire tests of the U.S. Army’s Next-Generation Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System Missile–Freedom Eagle-1, designed to counter larger drones with better maneuverability, longer range and faster launch capabilities. The company said Thursday that it conducted three test flights during the controlled test vehicle live fire demonstration in January at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. Advancing […] More

  • Lip-Bu Tan Named Intel CEO
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    Lip-Bu Tan Named Intel CEO

    Lip-Bu Tan will assume the role of Intel CEO, effective March 18, and rejoin the board of directors after stepping down in August 2024. With over two decades of experience in semiconductors and software, Tan succeeds interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus and takes over following Pat Gelsinger’s retirement as Intel CEO on Dec. 1, 2024. Tan’s Vision […] More

  • SAIC & Defense Unicorns to Boost DOD Software Deployment Capabilities
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    SAIC & Defense Unicorns to Boost DOD Software Deployment Capabilities

    SAIC and Defense Unicorns are partnering to develop a secure software delivery platform that streamlines mission-ready application deployment for the Department of Defense. Enhancing Software Delivery Across Diverse Environments Under the partnership, SAIC said Wednesday that it will integrate Defense Unicorns’ Unicorn Delivery Service into its existing software delivery ecosystem to optimize application deployment and maintenance across […] More

  • Amentum & Rivada Space Networks to Deliver Secure LEO System
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    Amentum & Rivada Space Networks to Deliver Secure LEO System

    Amentum and German company Rivada Space Networks are partnering to enhance U.S. government communications through Outernet, a highly secure low Earth orbit network. Commenting on the partnership, Dave Marlowe, vice president of intelligence and cyber at Amentum, said in a statement Tuesday, “Rivada is building a uniquely capable LEO constellation focused on zero-trust networking. By establishing a […] More

  • Raytheon Books $92M Air Force Contract for AMRAAM Processor Upgrades
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    Raytheon Books $92M Air Force Contract for AMRAAM Processor Upgrades

    RTX business, Raytheon, has secured a $92 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade processors for the Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile program.  The upgrades will support the integration of the Air Intercept Missile-120C-8 and AIM-120D-3 variants, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center awarded the contract using foreign military […] More