Teresa Shea, formerly a vice president at Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has been appointed senior adviser to the global public sector team at enterprise software-as-a-service company SandboxAQ. She will draw from her nearly four decades of combined government and industry experience to provide the team with insight to support public sector orga...
The Department of Defense plans to explore the potential behind generative artificial intelligence during an upcoming AI conference in June, following a wave of commercial developments in the area. Maynard Holliday, deputy chief technology officer for critical technologies within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineer...
ASRC Federal has agreed to buy the logistics and supply chain management business of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) in a cash transaction valued at approximately $350 million. Both parties expect to close the transaction in the spring of 2023, pending receipt of regulatory clearances and satisfaction of other customary closing...
To adapt to a warfighting landscape increasingly driven by digital technology, the U.S. military must pursue the implementation of zero trust with interoperability and collaboration in mind, according to public and private sector information technology leaders. Joseph Staier Joseph Staier, chief engineer for the Air Force’s enterprise information ...
By the time a new technology is funded, developed, prototyped, tested, produced and finally put in the hands of our warfighters, it’s often already outdated, as the federal government’s acquisition processes can take years to get through. The Defense Innovation Unit is on a mission to drastically speed up the Department of Defense’s acquisiti...
With the increasing importance of technologies such as the cloud, zero trust architecture and artificial intelligence, the need for modernization has grown, and the U.S. military has made technology transformation a priority to keep up with the demands of the rapidly evolving warfighting landscape. To address these needs, Lauren Knausenberger, chie...
Doug Jones, a senior vice president and defense group chief technology officer of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) for the past three years, has been promoted to serve as the company’s deputy CTO. In his new capacity, Jones will lead the company’s research and development investments, technology partnerships, technical talent growth and key strategic...
As the nature of threats continues to evolve, novel technologies, such as artificial intelligence, the cloud and numerous others, have grown in priority as the U.S. works to maintain its information advantage. Military service officers and executives who took part in a panel discussion Wednesday at ExecutiveBiz’s Information Warfare Forum sa...
David McKeown, senior information security officer and deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity at the Department of Defense, became the latest government official to be inducted into the 2023 edition of the Wash100. McKeown’s first selection to receive the Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic reflects his leadership in DOD-wide effor...
Recent technological advancements have drastically altered the way the U.S. military operates in the modern battlespace, which holds a growing number of threats to the nation’s information advantage. To keep up with the rapid nature of modern technology transformation and maintain battlefield superiority, welcoming change and the opportunities it ...
