ExecutiveBiz featured Greg Taylor, senior director of DOD Sales for Comcast Business, in its recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He talked about the company’s work to support the Defense Information Systems Agency’s commercial ethernet gateway initiative. The Q&A also tackled Comcast’s recent wins, capabilities ...
ManTech International announced on Wednesday that the company’s sale to global investment firm Carlyle has been completed. The all-cash acquisition represents a total enterprise value of roughly $4.2 billion. Robert W. Baird & Co. acted as the financial advisor for Carlyle in the transaction. ManTech Chairman, President and CEO Kevin Phi...
Marshall Choy, senior vice president of product at SambaNova Systems, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He discussed the company’s focus on innovation to provide real value to its end users. The interview also covered data computation and SambaNova’s partnership with a national laboratory on build...
Jennifer Hayes, sales director at MongoDB, said government agencies looking to update legacy applications in a secure and fully managed environment in support of their missions should consider adopting database-as-a-service platforms. Hayes discussed how cloud database services like Atlas for Government could help federal, local and state government...
Golden Key Group has chosen Michael McGregor, former director of personnel management for the U.S. Army Human Resources Command, to be the company’s vice president of client engagement and business optimization. He will lead business transformation initiatives and oversee the creation of process-centered business units to bring offerings to th...
The United States Space Force has trained an “unblinking eye” on its top pacing challenge and adversary, China, as the U.S. races to maintain space dominance in the increasingly contested and hostile domain, according to Brig. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, the Space Force’s new director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. In recent years,...
Andy Murphy, head of customer engineering for federal civilian agencies at Google, said government agencies looking to meet their modernization objectives, take advantage of new technical capabilities and accomplish their missions should adopt cloud computing technologies. “Cloud providers can often develop and release a new feature or service lon...
Michelle Howell, a two-decade human resources professional in the defense industry, has been named chief HR officer at Alexandria, Virginia-based government contractor Systems Planning and Analysis. She will be responsible for overseeing SPA’s talent attraction, retention and development functions across three continents, the company said Wednesda...
Zero trust has quickly gained a foothold in the U.S. federal government as the latest and greatest cybersecurity measure. At the start of 2022, the Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum that mandated a federal zero trust architecture strategy and required agencies to meet cybersecurity standards by fiscal year 2024’s close. Now, as...
In the U.S. Army’s modernization journey, the cloud is playing an increasingly important role. Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said that in the future fight, data will be the Army’s ammunition, and the cloud will serve as the next warfighting platform. Although the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability pr...
