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According to Air Force Lt. Gen. Mary O’Brien, chief information officer at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the speed at which technology is advancing and the extent of its potential impact on military operations have reached “unprecedented” levels. Technology has repeatedly impacted the character of war, said O’Brien. In the past, tanks repl...
David Goldfein, a retired U.S. Air Force general and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of Google’s public sector business. Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, announced the appointment of Goldfein and other board members in a blog post published Wednesday. Goldfein,...
The U.S. Navy is looking at using artificial intelligence paired with unmanned vessels to solve its most urgent fleet readiness challenges in some of the most consequential theaters to the intensifying peer competition. In recent months, the service has made notable strides forward in exploring how AI and unmanned or minimally manned vessels can be...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has revised its electronic health record system modernization contract with Oracle Cerner a month after VA halted deployments of the EHR system as part of a program reset, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. In April, VA reset the program in a move to address EHR-related issues that were identified at five...
Veritas Capital CEO and Managing Partner Ramzi Musallam was bestowed his 2023 Wash100 Award plaque by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to Veritas’ New York City headquarters. Musallam has been recognized for eight consecutive years by EM’s organizational leadership for his unstinting vision, innovation and reliabilit...
Paul Burnette, vice president and director of the Software Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said the federal government should work with industry and adopt the SecDevOps approach to develop and deploy “hardened, optimal code” and ensure the security of critical systems. He wrote that SecDevOps could provide organizations the ability to rapidl...
Through its purchase of iDoxSolutions Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology and management consulting company, B&A will provide federal, state and local government customers with more advanced IT offerings. iDox will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the McLean, Virginia-headquartered IT services company. Founded in 2000, iDo...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) saw higher revenue from domestic and international government operations in the first quarter of 2023 on the back of significant contract wins during the three-month period. The data analytics technology provider saw its overall January-March government sales jump 20 percent year over year to $289 million, ac...
Defense and aerospace components maker Heico (NYSE: HEI) has agreed to acquire Wencor Group from the latter’s management and private equity firm Warburg Pincus in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $2.05 billion. Heico said Monday it will pay $1.9 billion in cash and $150 million in Class A common stock for the Peachtree City, Georgia-headquarter...
The General Services Administration has named 14 representatives from public and private sectors as inaugural members of a federal panel that will advise and offer recommendations to the GSA administrator, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s board and agencies with regard to the secure adoption of cloud computing products a...
