Several Department of Defense officials participated in a two-day virtual conference, hosted by McAleese & Associates, to discuss topics such as acquisition, budget and military modernization. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, highlighted takeaways from the FY2022 Defense Programs conference in his...
Mark Forman, former federal chief information officer, has been appointed executive vice president for enterprise optimization and transformation practice at Dynamic Integrated Services, GovCon Wire has learned. He will oversee a team of digital transformation professionals in advising government officials as they implement new business platforms me...
Gerry Dixon, a three-decade veteran of EY, will succeed Michael Herrinton as managing partner of the professional services firm’s U.S. government and public sector practice, effective July 1. The professional services firm said Monday Dixon will be responsible for helping federal, state and local government clients address mission requirements...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2021 — Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, talked about how the U.S. Postal Service and company collaborated to deploy a distributed edge artificial intelligence platform in an effort to streamline the identification and tracking of packages, ExecutiveBi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2021 — Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) will support multiple efforts focused on space domain awareness as part of several contract awards with a combined value of more than $46 million, ExecutiveBiz reported May 7. Phil Carrai, president of the space, training and cybersecurity division at Kratos, ci...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2020 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published her latest article on Friday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. For today’s article, GovCon Expert Kim Koster has detailed the challenges facing supply chain executives as the compliance requi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2021 — Peraton partnered with Pegasystems (Nasdaq: PEGA) and created a center of excellence in a move to help federal civilian customers transform citizen service delivery using the latter’s software, ExecutiveBiz reported May 5. Tarik Reyes, president of Peraton’s civil and health sector, said the partnershi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2021 — The Defense Innovation Unit is reportedly nearing a decision on which among prototypes developed by Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and McAfee (Nasdaq: MCFE) will be used by the unit as its secure cloud access management platform that will support collaboration between the Department of Defense and...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2021 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Milken Institute Center for Public Health have partnered to encourage private, government, academic and nonprofit sectors to collaboratively address mental health crisis and drug addiction that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated, ExecutiveBiz reported May 3. “Through this new partnersh...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 12, 2021 — Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) was awarded Amazon Web Services’ Managed Service Provider Partner Program designation that recognized the former’s delivery of AWS cloud services to government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported April 30. “We are proud to be further recognized for our expertise in leveraging next...
