Data Systems Analysts promotes Foley to CEO
Fran Pierce has led DSA as chief executive since 1991 and is remaining involved as a member of its board of directors. Data Systems Analysts has promoted its next chief executive from within the company’s own ranks in John Foley, who has been chief financial officer since he first joined in 2009. Foley also will chair […]
Shift5 hires former L3Harris exec as interim CEO
Josh Lospinoso, a co-founder and Shif5’s former chief executive, is transitioning out of day-to-day duties to focus more time and energy on longer-term planning. Shift5, a cybersecurity startup whose backers include Booz Allen’s venture capital arm, has hired former L3Harris Technologies executive Toby Magsig as chief executive on an interim basis. Magsig succeeds Josh Lospinoso, co-founder […]
State Department takes third look at Alpha Omega’s $10B Evolve protest
The department takes another corrective action after the contractor challenges its exclusion from the enterprise IT contract. The State Department is working on another corrective action as it tries to resolve protest issues involving its $10 billion Evolve contract for enterprise IT services. Alpha Omega Integration filed its first protest in July after the State Department […]
The missing middle: America’s overlooked weakness in defense innovation
Federal funding flows to research labs and prime contractors, but the companies best positioned to turn prototypes into production are starving for capital — and that’s a strategic vulnerability the U.S. can’t afford, writes Stephen Empedocles, CEO of Clark Street Associates. The U.S. is investing heavily in critical industries, including semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum, and critical […]
CTC’s longtime leader Ed Sheehan to retire
CTC just completed its new 10-year strategic plan to shape the nonprofit’s future as an applied scientific research-and-development firm. Ed Sheehan, chief executive of the nonprofit science and research firm Concurrent Technologies Corp., plans to retire on June 30 after leading CTC for 18 years. CTC’s board of directors has started a search process to appoint […]
Northwood closes $100M Series B round, books $50M Space Force contract
This space startup co-founded by Bridgit Mendler, the former actress-turned entrepreneur, is pushing a smaller-form alternative array to traditional means as a way to scale out ground infrastructure. Northwood, a startup that makes phased-array antennas for communicating with satellites, has collected $100 million in Series B capital from investors to expand both production capacity and functionality […]
Trump’s national defense strategy is unlike anything that’s come before it
It touts an end to interventionism and regime change, despite adventurism in Venezuela and Greenland. The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy is a major departure from decades of established defense policy, and may not be sustainable, according to experts who spoke to Defense One. While the strategy hearkens back to what the Trump administration sees as […]
Lockheed Martin launches wildfire tech venture with Salesforce, PG&E and Wells Fargo
EmberPoint will combine artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and military-grade sensors to help first responders detect and suppress fires faster. Lockheed Martin is partnering with Salesforce and two other companies to form a joint venture for bringing next-generation wildfire solutions to first responders. EmberPoint LLC is also backed by the utility company Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and […]
8(a) program faces unprecedented pressure from Trump administration attacks
Defenders of the small business contracting initiative say it enables rapid procurement, can meet administration priorities and the administration is overstating fraud concerns. Companies in the 8(a) small business contracting program are facing unprecedented pressure as the Trump administration paints it as rife with corruption and a bastion of illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Trump […]
Air Force Research Lab opens proposal window for $10B vehicle
This will be the lab’s central mechanism for acquiring research-and-development support on behalf of the entire Air Force. The Air Force Research Laboratory has given industry the green light to start working on and submitting proposals for a potential eight-year, $10 billion contract vehicle covering a wide range of science and technology initiatives. AFRL has set […]