The Defense Health Agency has awarded six companies positions on a six-year, $1.43 billion contract to bring technology modernization processes, tools and methods to the DHA’s program executive office for defense health care management systems. Contractors will aim to help PEO DHMS personnel adopt methodologies from industry under the multiple...
Arlington, Virginia-based information technology company Indev has promoted Sandi Van Valkenburg, former senior director of transportation programs, to the position of vice president. She will continue to oversee Indev’s portfolio of programs supporting the Department of Transportation and provide mentorship and guidance to company personnel w...
Jimmy Benani was promoted to the role of vice president of federal health and civilian markets at Excella, where he previously served as director, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday. He has been with the Arlington, Virginia-based Agile technology company for more than 11 years now and he most recently led its efforts in supporting customers focused on...
Eric Ritter, former vice president for consulting services at Cognosante, took on a new role at Maximus (NYSE: MMS) as vice president of business development, FedHealth IT reported Tuesday. Ritter has more than two decades of professional experience spanning sales, product management and information technology in the public sector and health care ma...
The Professional Services Council has appointed Serco Inc. CEO Dave Dacquino and Dawne Hickton, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Jacobs’ (NYSE: J) critical mission solutions business, to the executive committee of the trade association. Dacquino and Hickton, both 2021 Wash100 Award recipients, were among the five newly elect...
Jim Walker, formerly the federal chief technology officer of UiPath, has been appointed senior vice president of the U.S. public sector business at automation services provider Roboyo. He will oversee Roboyo’s go-to-market strategy to take its professional service offerings to federal, state and local agencies, the company said Thursday. At Ui...
Lisa Gaisford, a nearly 27-year public and private sector veteran, has joined Amyx as director of federal civilian programs, according to her LinkedIn post. She joins the Reston, Virginia-based management and information technology services provider after her tenure as managing director at Washington, D.C.-based tech company Dcode, where she oversaw...
Jay Jones, a retired U.S. Army colonel who supported the service’s Information Systems Software Center, has joined HighPoint as chief growth officer, responsible for spearheading efforts to expand the presence of the company’s digital services in the federal market. Jones’ military career includes work for the Office of the Directorate...
Michael Ebert, a more than three-decade cybersecurity veteran, has joined Guidehouse’s cybersecurity practice as a partner. He is focused on helping customers in health care and life sciences industries address privacy and cybersecurity challenges and brings to the role his experience in the areas of information security, health care regulatory co...
John Donovan, former CEO of AT&T’s (NYSE: T) communications subsidiary, has joined the board of directors of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) as an independent director. He will serve on Lockheed’s classified business and security committee, the company said Thursday. Donovan also leads the President’s National Security Telecommunic...
