Frankie Velez has been promoted from vice president to VP and general manager of cyber intelligence systems at Peraton, he announced in a LinkedIn post on Monday. Velez started his career in the U.S. Navy. After 15 years, he transitioned to the private sector as manager of systems engineering at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). He...
Baris Yener, former senior vice president and chief growth officer at ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), has assumed the CGO position at Rockville, Maryland-headquartered consulting and research company Abt Associates. Yener will oversee strategic capture, business development and growth strategy, sales enablement, marketing and communications in his new capacity,...
Dallas-based private equity firm Trive Capital has acquired Hypergiant Industries, an artificial intelligence-based software provider, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to complement its portfolio company Forward Slope. Hypergiant CEO Mike Betzer will continue to oversee the AI defense platform company, according to a joint release published...
Deborah Youmans, former vice president and deputy chief information officer at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has been named CIO at not-for-profit research and development organization Mitre. She will supervise more than 400 IT professionals within Mitre’s enterprise computing and information systems unit, the non-for-profit research and dev...
Michele Flournoy, co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm WestExec Advisors and a former Department of Defense official, has been appointed to Rivada Networks‘ board of directors. Flournoy said in a statement released Thursday she aims to help Rivada “transform the global communications landscape” with its OuterNET satellite n...
A National Institutes of Health organization has chosen five contractors to compete for task orders on a potential $85 million blanket purchase agreement covering information technology support services. DLH Holdings (Nasdaq: DLHC) announced Wednesday it holds a position on the five-year BPA to help the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute addre...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) saw its revenue jump 18 percent to $2.65 billion during the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 and reported a net income of $161.4 million, up 16.9 percent from the prior-year period. The McLean, Virginia-based information technology and management consulting firm said Friday it ended the quarter with a total...
Atlas Space Operations has appointed U.S. Air Force and industry veteran John Williams as CEO and launched a new subsidiary focused on supporting government missions. Williams most recently served as vice president of real-time Earth at Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT), where he was responsible for the development of the company’s ground station-as-a-ser...
McLean, Virginia-based Xcelerate Solutions has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Tim Conway as a member of the board, Anne-Marie Evans as chief financial officer and Michael Heller as vice president of human resources. Conway, a two-time Wash100 awardee, will bring to Xcelerate’s board his federal contracting industry experience...
The U.S. Navy has issued a sources sought notice seeking information on commercially available large diameter unmanned undersea vehicles that could be deployed as early as fiscal year 2024, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The service’s move seeks to comply with the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which directs the Nav...
