The Biden administration has created a new task force to work on a roadmap meant to expand access to research tools to advance innovation in the field of artificial intelligence. The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force, which was created in accordance with the National AI Initiative Act of 2020, will act as a...
Belcan, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners, has bought service-disabled veteran-owned professional services contractor VICTOR42 for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand work with government and defense customers. Washington, D.C.-based VICTOR42 offers special operations and information technology support to government clients such as th...
Michael Bradshaw, an information technology industry leader, has been named chief information officer of Kyndryl, an independent managed infrastructure services provider spinning out of IBM (NYSE: IBM). He previously served as executive vice president and CIO at NBC Universal, where he led the company’s global IT operations, strategy, applications...
Mark Forman, former federal chief information officer, has been appointed executive vice president for enterprise optimization and transformation practice at Dynamic Integrated Services, GovCon Wire has learned. He will oversee a team of digital transformation professionals in advising government officials as they implement new business platforms me...
Melanie Kyle Gingrich, formerly senior director of government products at recruitment company Monster Worldwide, has been named as the first vice president of training and development for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body. Gingrich will oversee programs intended to educate and train contractors that want to comply wit...
KPMG’s federal advisory practice has named 25-year FBI veteran Maria Voreh as a director and appointed Pamela Powers, Michael Westphal and Chad Poppell to managing director positions. All four public service veterans will aim to help KPMG’s government clients transform business processes, the professional services firm said. Voreh led th...
Digital signal processing technology licensor Ceva has entered into a $33 million cash acquisition deal for Marlborough, Massachusetts-based chip development company Intrinsix in a strategy to expand into semiconductor market verticals. Ceva said Monday it aims to create a turnkey intellectual property platform for smart sensing and wireless connect...
Dr. William Kassler, a clinical and public health professional, has joined Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) as the company’s first U.S. government chief medical officer. He will oversee Palantir’s life sciences and public health teams across the company’s U.S. government and international business, Palantir said Monday. Shyam Sankar, chief o...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has promoted Jennifer Chronis, a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient with over 25 years of experience in digital transformation, to the role of senior vice president of its public sector business from her most recent post at the company as VP of federal. The company said Wednesday Chronis will now be responsible for...
John Parikh, who has over 35 years of experience in delivering services to state and local governments as well as defense and civilian agencies, has joined Excelicon to serve as director of business development and capture, a newly created position in the company. Excelicon said Parikh will be responsible for driving growth across marketing, researc...
