Top Voices: Amentum

How the IC and industry support one another

For industry and the intelligence community, the question is how to speed up procurement and move new technologies and processes into IC operations.

Digital engineering takes front and center

Although digital engineering in some form dates to the World War II era, modern computing capabilities helped cause a step-function advance in the early 2000s, according to Vlad Bacalu, senior vice president for strategic and technical solutions at Amentum.

New energy era demands lots of technology and engineering

The energy infrastructure at the moment “is somewhat vulnerable,” said Jim Blankenhorn, the environment and security business line manager at Amentum. He urged planners to think about the electrical infrastructure comprehensively, and not only about the wiring grid.

Capabilities and applications expand for autonomous and unmanned systems

The unmanned systems of today will rapidly evolve into multi-function platforms marked by autonomy and the capability of operating in concert with other crewed and non-crewed systems.