In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz sat with Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of defense systems business at Northrop Grumman as well as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, to talk about the company’s $1.4 billion contract with the U.S. Army for the Integrated Battle Command System and about the impact ...
Mark Shepardson, formerly the director of capture strategy for Palantir Technology‘s (NYSE: PLTR) federal business, has been appointed chief technology officer at defense technology provider Parry Labs. He has gained computing, software and digital transformation experience, as well as knowledge of defense and intelligence community challenges...
Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, has been selected to the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most significant contributors in the government contracting sector — for the sixth consecutive year. “As our business continues to grow, I am grateful for the exceptional team we’ve built. Guidehouse is home to great talent,...
System High has won a $104.9 million contract with the U.S. Navy to perform a range of security services in support of the F-35 Joint Program Office. The company will provide program management, foreign disclosure support, counter-intelligence services, general security as well as information, industrial, physical and personnel security under the fi...
The Senate has confirmed Andrew Hunter, formerly director of the Center for Strategic International Studies’ defense-industrial initiatives group, to serve as assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics. Hunter’s nomination to the position was first announced in July 2021. At CSIS, he focused his research ...
Michael Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the Department of Defense should work with industry and academia to address the increasing challenges posed by cyber and asymmetric warfare. Brown wrote in a guest piece published Saturday on TechCrunch that DOD is advancing a technology modernization agenda...
The Department of Defense has approved a strategy to help facilitate the “delivery of resilient software capability at the speed of relevance.” DOD’s Software Modernization Strategy has three goals and the first one seeks to accelerate the department’s enterprise cloud environment, the department said Friday. Objectives under the first goal ...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with GovCon Expert Jill Singer, vice president of defense and national security for AT&T Public Sector and FirstNet, about the company’s work in support of the intelligence community, Department of Defense and other government customers. Here’s an excerpt from the i...
Activities in line with President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability – which calls for a holistic approach across all federal government agencies to achieve 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity usage and purchases by 2030 – are underway within the Department of...
John Sherman, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has been named acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer with oversight of DOD’s strategy and policy development efforts for data, AI and analytics. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote in a Tuesday memo that the office of ...
