Opinion

How to move tech from disruptive to sustainable

Disruptive technologies can become catalysts for sustainability when public policies and private initiatives align and create long-term benefits.

  • By Brendan Walsh

Castellum's latest acquisition takes company further to new stock listing

Defense technology company Castellum is rapidly closing acquisitions including its latest deal focused on cyber and network engineering as the firm pushes to have its stock traded on an exchange.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Navy previews $2.5B shipboard network recompete

The Navy gives industry a first glimpse at how the service branch plans to recompete its estimated $2.5 billion contract vehicle for products and services to support shipboard networks.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Forcepoint appoints new product chief

Forcepoint brings in a two-decade cybersecurity industry veteran and former Symantec executive to the role of chief product officer.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Raytheon adds former DOD, Air Force civilian exec

Raytheon Technologies hires a former Defense Department and Air Force civilian executive to the leadership team within the company's intelligence and space segment.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Ernst & Young expands government, public sector practice leadership team

Ernst & Young hires a longtime state government official to the leadership team of the firm’s public sector practice.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Trade groups unite in push to get COVID-19 cost relief provision extended

Several trade associations representing companies in the government market ask congressional appropriators to extend a provision of the first coronavirus economic relief law covering the costs of contractor employees locked out of federal facilities.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Bezos, Blue Origin move their lunar lander fight to the court

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is taking its protest over the NASA lunar lander contract to the courtroom, where the company will continue arguing that the agency made several mistakes in choosing Elon Musk's SpaceX for the program.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Oceus brings in new growth, strategy chief

Oceus Networks appoints its new chief growth and strategy officer from the private equity owner that acquired the company last year.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Microsoft touts top secret cloud as 'generally available'

Azure Government Top Secret is now "generally available" for national security workloads, Microsoft announced in a blog post.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

How CACI thinks through the tech & talent legs of its strategy

Technology and talent are key components of CACI International's overall strategy but not as directly correlated compared to in years past amid renewed discussion about recruiting in the government market. In speaking with investors, CACI's chief executive explained why and how their thinking about that correlation has changed.

  • By Ross Wilkers
Podcasts

More code than papers: inside Noblis' turn into that direction

Noblis is shifting to a new method and model of delivery amid the nonprofit organization’s continued push to be at the nexus of science and technology for federal agencies. Get the inside view on that multiple-year reinvention as described to our Ross Wilkers by CEO Amr ElSawy and Mile Corrigan, senior vice president of federal civilian solutions.

SAIC's protest dismissed, but fight over $2.5B NASA IT award likely to continue

Science Applications International Corp.'s protest over a $2.5 billion NASA IT infrastructure award to Leidos has been dismissed, but that doesn't mean that SAIC's challenge is over.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Baird adds another industry, banking veteran to government and defense team

Baird adds another director to its government and defense team that has worked in industry and banking.

  • By Nick Wakeman

General Dynamics, Sierra Nevada take seats on $774M Army key load contract

General Dynamics and Sierra Nevada win seats on a $774.2 million contract with the Army to provide cryptographic key load devices for securing network systems.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Maximus' challenge of $79M Social Security ticket contract falls short

In seeing its protest denied, Maximus has officially lost an incumbent contract at the Social Security Administration to a competitor.

  • By Nick Wakeman

AeroVironment board adds electronics firm CEO

AeroVironment's board of directors elects a new member in Cindy Lewis, a three-decade industry veteran and CEO of an electronics maker.

  • By Washington Technology staff

Sign of maturity: Applied Insight adds large business chops with its new CEO

Applied Insight has matured into the middle-tier and has brought in a new CEO with large business experience. The now-former CEO has moved to Applied Insight's private equity owner to bring a more tech focus there.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Lumen shifts public sector execs

Lumen Technologies' current public sector business leader is taking on a new role at the telecommunications company and elevating another executive to lead its work for government agencies.

  • By Washington Technology staff

What the trucking industry taught Lockheed's CEO about networks

In his last job prior to becoming Lockheed Martin CEO, Jim Taiclet began working with partners in telecommunications and other sectors on creating a network effect for the U.S. trucking industry to take it in an autonomous direction. Taiclet told investors that could be a model for doing the same in national defense.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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