Albert “Al” Stewart, a three-decade government market veteran, has joined Xator as senior vice president for business development. His appointment took effect June 1 and he is responsible for overseeing business growth strategies throughout the corporation, including its family of companies, Xator said. Stewart previously served as director of b...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — Dave Levy, vice president of U.S. government, nonprofit and health care businesses at Amazon Web Services and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said government agencies looking to implement zero trust frameworks and strengthen data privacy and security could use the cloud to support their pursuits of the mentioned...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has invested in DDK Positioning in support of the Aberdeen, Scotland-based company’s efforts to expand its global precision positioning service offerings, ExecutiveBiz reported May 25. The investment builds on an existing partnership between the two companies through wh...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) will engineer aircraft technologies and other military platforms for the U.S. Air Force’s 448th Supply Chain Management Wing under a $91.8 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported June 1. Byron Bright, president of KBR’s government solutions business, said the award gives the company ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — David Appel, vice president of command and control data solutions at Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTN) intelligence and space business, said an open systems architecture has the potential to speed up data processing for the Department of Defense’s signals intelligence mission, ExecutiveBiz reported J...
The U.S. Navy has selected nine companies for a potential eight-year, $249.7 million contract to design, produce, install and test unmanned hardware and software platforms. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide the military branch a range of technical support services for unmanned waterborne and underwater mine countermeasures systems,...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the company’’s 2021 GovCon Success Guide and GovCon Expert, published her latest article on Tuesday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. After exploring the challenges facing supply chain and GovCon executives as the compliance requirements, such as CMMC...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2021 — Shaun Bierweiler, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Riverbed Technology, said federal information technology modernization efforts need a holistic strategy that encompasses “security, visibility, realiability and access,” ExecutiveBiz reported May 21. In a Link...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2021 — Aaron Burciaga, vice president of artificial intelligence at ECS, said a responsible approach to AI product development could encourage federal agencies to adopt the technology for data science applications, ExecutiveBiz reported May 21. “The introduction of new AI/ML models within federal operations demand...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has initiated measures on how the Department of Defense should work toward addressing China-related security challenges. The directive builds on recommendations from the Pentagon’s China Task Force, which launched in February and delivered an initial assessment in April, the department said Wednesday. DOD collabo...
