Taimeka Hollis, formerly chief operating officer at Illuminate, has elevated to the role of president at the Herndon, Virginia-based analytics company. She brings to the role over 20 years of leadership experience in business development, strategy, engineering and operations, Illuminate said Tuesday. Prior to Illuminate, Hollis spent 17 years at Nor...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has won an $829.2 million task order to perform IT help desk services in support of the Defense Intelligence Agency. The company will provide these services at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C. and other DIA facilities for over a decade, the Department of Defense said ...
Doug Cossa, chief information officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency, will keynote a Nov. 17 virtual forum to be hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to discuss the DIA’s current information technology environment and the role of industry in efforts to transform the agency’s IT infrast...
Former Department of Defense officials Jack Gumtow, Scott Howell and Patricia Stokes have joined the board of advisers of artificial intelligence software provider Babel Street. They will advise the leadership team on approaches to help customers implement the company’s analytics software platform, Babel Street said Wednesday. Gumtow, a three-...
In an effort to streamline the organization’s overlapping systems and harmonize challenges across centers and directorates, the Defense Intelligence Agency released its standardized framework for a coherent approach in achieving multilevel objectives in June. Lt. Gen Scott Berrier, director of DIA, said the 2021 DIA Strategy co...
Colsa has won a potential 10-year, $217.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency for services in support of its scientific computing operations, analysis and applications. The company will perform work through 2031 depending on the task orders awarded under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-pri...
Octo, a Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services provider, has acquired Volant Associates for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of IT offerings for agency clients across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Volant’s leadership team will stay and oversee a new division within Oct...
Letitia “Tish” Long, a nearly four-decade security and intelligence industry veteran and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, has joined the board of directors of T-Mobile US (Nasdaq: TMUS). She will also be part of the board’s nominating and corporate governance committee and serve as national security director to support the company’s commitme...
SOS International has named intelligence community veterans Neil Wiley and Dan Robinson as senior adviser for intelligence programs and vice president of business development, respectively, as part of efforts to expand the company’s analytic services business. Wiley will align resources and establish the strategic vision, administrative and operat...
President Joe Biden has nominated national security veterans Frank Kendall and Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as secretary and undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, respectively. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, previously worked at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and principal deputy underse...
