Ben Cushing of Red Hat and Shane McNamee of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) said their companies have teamed up to come up with an open standards, open-source technology-based system that is built around patients and meant to help health care providers eliminate barriers to delivering medical care to patients. Cushing and McNamee discussed HealthConcours...
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...
Jenn Azzolina of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) and Michael Daly of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) said the two companies have teamed up to develop a technology platform to help government agencies glean insights from large volumes of data while ensuring data security using plug-and-play analytics and zero trust approach. Azzolina and Daly wrote th...
Carey Smith, president and chief operating officer of Parsons (NYSE: PSN) and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, has been elected by the board of directors to succeed the retiring Chuck Harrington as the company’s CEO, effective July 1. Harrington, who has been CEO and board chairman since 2008 and a previous Wash100 Award recipient, will...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award, this year’s highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership and innovation in COVID-19 research and development programs as well as his drive to assist in the pandemic’s relief efforts for...
Mike Rosa and Alicia Rosenbaum of Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) said government agencies seeking to protect users and data in the cloud should adopt a zero trust framework. Under the zero trust model, an individual “seeking information is authenticated every step of the way, data is isolated and protected, and administrators have the ability to audit...
Garth Graham, director and global head of health care and public health partnerships at YouTube, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as a member of the board of directors. He will serve on the human resources and compensation committee and his appointment increases the members of SAIC’s board to 10, the company said...
Todd Fitzgerald, who joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) in 2016, has been named civil group strategy and business development at the Reston, Virginia-based government services contractor. He was previously featured in ArchIntel's Competitive Intelligence Spotlight series....
Brian Greenberg, head of marketing competitive intelligence at Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Aruba Networks subsidiary, gave ArchIntel an in-depth perspective on how CI teams could generate immense amounts of data for analysis and the foundational skills he is looking for when hiring an analyst. In the Q&A conversation, he also discussed how...
Oroco Capital to Buy AECOM Civil Construction Business; Troy Rudd Quoted AECOM has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its civil construction business, including the Shimmick Construction unit, to Oroco Capital. AECOM said Thursday it expects to complete the sale in January upon the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. ArchInte...
