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  • Alex Stamos Assumes SentinelOne CISO Post - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alex Stamos Assumes SentinelOne CISO Post

    Alex Stamos, former chief trust officer at SentinelOne, was appointed as the company’s chief information security officer, responsible for managing its security engineering and operations teams.  The artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity company said Thursday Stamos will focus primarily on the development and delivery of secure-by-design systems. According to Stamos’ LinkedIn profile, he joined the Mountain View, […] More

  • SES Subsidiary Lands Air Force Contract for Satellite Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Subsidiary Lands Air Force Contract for Satellite Services

    SES Space & Defense, a satellite network company, has won a $46.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide satellite services. The SES subsidiary said Wednesday it was awarded a multi-year contract to deliver end-to-end Geostationary Ku-band satellite services to the Air Combat Command. The managed service will be utilized by ACC’s remotely piloted aircraft, […] More

  • BlueHalo Completes Rocket Motor Testing Rounds for Next-Gen Counter-UAS Missile for Army; Jonathan Moneymaker Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlueHalo Completes Rocket Motor Testing Rounds for Next-Gen Counter-UAS Missile for Army; Jonathan Moneymaker Quoted

    BlueHalo has finished multiple rounds of testing for the Next-Generation Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System: Freedom Eagle, which is designed to defeat large air threats for the U.S. Army. The company said Thursday the activity involved firing the drone’s dual-thrust, solid rocket motor. NGCM FE-1 is envisioned to enhance lethality and range against Group 3 UAS and larger […] More

  • Booz Allen Launches Generative AI Tech on Orbiting Lab; Chris Bogdan Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Launches Generative AI Tech on Orbiting Lab; Chris Bogdan Quoted

    Booz Allen Hamilton has deployed a generative artificial intelligence tool onboard the International Space Station National Lab. The company said Thursday its large language model application uses Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Spaceborne Computer-2 platform to help ISS astronauts address complex issues by retrieving and analyzing information without relying on Earth-bound internet. The LLM application was developed […] More

  • SAIC Names Bernard Wille Height as Senior Capture Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Names Bernard Wille Height as Senior Capture Director

    Science Applications International Corp. has appointed Bernard Wille Height as its new senior capture director. Height announced his new post at SAIC through a Linkedin post shared Wednesday. The veteran capture manager spent most of his career performing the said role for several government contractors. Before his most recent move, Height was the capture director […] More

  • Brett Surbey Appointed Contracts Director at Empower AI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brett Surbey Appointed Contracts Director at Empower AI

    Brett Surbey, a senior contract manager with over 20 years of experience, has joined Empower AI as director of contracts, according to his LinkedIn announcement. Most recently, Surbey worked as vice president of contracts and compliance at VSE. He initially served as the contracts director at the engineering services company. He will bring to Empower […] More

  • Jacobs Selected as Program Manager for California Hydrogen Hub Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Selected as Program Manager for California Hydrogen Hub Project

    Jacobs will lead a public-private partnership that will establish a clean hydrogen hub in California. Work as the program manager for the nearly $13 billion Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems involves providing delivery oversight, integrating project activities and driving best practices across the entire hydrogen lifecycle of feedstock, production, distribution and offtake, Jacobs […] More

  • AWS Gets FedRAMP High Authorization for Machine Learning Platform for Managed Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Gets FedRAMP High Authorization for Machine Learning Platform for Managed Service

    Amazon Web Services has secured a “High” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its machine learning managed service available for customer of AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. The company said Thursday the ML platform, know as Amazon Bedrock, offers high-performance foundation models via a single application programming interface, with tools for building secure, […] More

  • Dan Jablonsky to Take Command of Ursa Major as CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Jablonsky to Take Command of Ursa Major as CEO

    Dan Jablonsky, a two-time Wash100 Award winner, has been selected to succeed Joe Laurienti as CEO of propulsion-focused company Ursa Major. The former Maxar Technologies head will assume his new role on Aug. 5, Ursa Major said Thursday. “I have followed Ursa Major’s many successes over the past nine years and am confident in the impact that its advanced […] More

  • General Dynamics Receives $174M Army Contract for Stryker Vehicle Retrofit, Repair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Receives $174M Army Contract for Stryker Vehicle Retrofit, Repair

    General Dynamics‘ land systems business has secured a $174.4 million contract from the U.S. Army to retrofit and repair the service branch’s Stryker family of vehicles. The Department of Defense said Wednesday General Dynamics Land Systems’ work under the cost-plus-fixed fee contract will run through Feb. 28, 2029. The Army Contracting Command’s Detroit Arsenal in […] More

  • Drew Orsinger Named Fidelis Security CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drew Orsinger Named Fidelis Security CTO

    Drew Orsinger, former chief security officer at SpaceX, Honeywell and CME Group, has taken on the role of chief technology officer at Fidelis Security. In his new post, he will oversee Fidelis’ development and implementation of advanced cybersecurity strategies to protect critical data and networks for clients, the company said Wednesday. Orsinger brings to Fidelis […] More