William Manel, former capture manager at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has joined Peraton to serve as opportunity strategy director, FedHealthIT reported Friday. Manel wrote in a LinkedIn post that he will be responsible for helping drive the latter’s cross-company innovation, teamwork and collaboration efforts. The Certified Agile Professional-Scrum M...
Kevin O’Connell, former director in the Office of Space Commerce, has joined the advisory board of digital platform provider Copernic Space, SpaceNews reported Friday. He will provide advice to the Copernic Space leadership on sector matters as the company aims to standardize an electronic interface for investors and customers to trade space-r...
Jean-Francois (Boodi) Blanc, partner and chief strategy officer for SDV International, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding his motivations for joining the company back in March as well as his strategic goals for the rest of 2022 and beyond. In addition, Blanc also discussed the core values of SDV International’s company culture and a brea...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $74 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to produce the U.S. government’s eighth Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery. The company said Thursday it expects MDA to deploy the additional weapon system by 2025 to help defend against ballistic missile threats. The U.S. Army first activat...
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Steve Orrin, chief technology officer and senior PE with Intel Federal, published his first article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday. GovCon Expert Steve Orrin provides a look into the current cybersecurity space as it relates to artificial intelligence, machine learning and other emerging technologies influencin...
Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. has won a potential $184.3 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to study combustion and propulsion technologies for potential defense use. ISSI will carry out research work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract at Wright-Patterson AF Base in Ohio and will receive $842,500 i...
Raj Shankar, vice president of digital transformation & GTM at Salesforce, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the importance of data transformation and how Salesforce can help drive larger digital transformation efforts for its customers. In addition, Shankar also discussed how Salesforce is driving success for its customers in the go...
The Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a set of cybersecurity standards created in 2019 to fortify the Defense Industrial Base against the increasing threat of cyberattacks and protect sensitive, unclassified information shared by the DOD and its contractors. CMMC incorporates these cyberse...
Castellum has completed its acquisition of government contractor Lexington Solutions Group for an undisclosed sum. Mark Fuller, president and CEO of Castellum, said in a statement published Monday LSG President Boyd Brown and his team will join Castellum and the transaction pushes Castellum above the $43 million run-rate threshold. “We also ...
