Andrew Bream, a two-decade information technology professional in the defense and aerospace industries, has joined SOS International as vice president for information technology. His new role involves continuously improving SOSi’s enterprise IT security and systems while leading the development of innovations used in the digital transformation...
President Joe Biden has appointed several industry leaders to an advisory panel that advises and offers policy recommendations to the White House on issues related to the preparedness, security and reliability of the U.S. communications and information infrastructure. Scott Charney, vice president for security policy at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), and...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, as a winner of the 2023 Wash100 Award. This marks the second consecutive time Whitworth has been inducted into the annual prestigious roster of public and private sector leaders who drive government contracting activity. As th...
Technology industry veteran Jay Barrows has been named executive vice president of enterprise sales and public sector at Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) and will support digital transformation efforts of federal, state and local government agency clients and national enterprise customers in his new role. His appointment is part of a string of execut...
Private equity firm Highlander Partners has acquired Black Sage Technologies, a developer of multimission platforms designed to identify and defeat unmanned aircraft system threats. The acquisition marks Highlander’s third purchase of a C-UAS/UAS developer, after DZYNE Technologies and Liteye Systems in 2022, the Dallas-based investment compan...
Sol Salinas brings 30 years of experience in corporate sustainability and digital transformation to his role as a global executive vice president at Capgemini. He previously managed the energy efficiency, carbon and sustainability department at a major government contractor and established and ran the global small infrastructure and smart cities pra...
With the creation of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office by the Department of Defense in 2022, the Pentagon has signaled its intent to embrace AI technologies. Although it has yet to take such sweeping action, the U.S. intelligence community is following suit. In the 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act — the ruling that directs...
Cobham, a global technology company backed by private equity firm Advent International, is considering acquiring Andover, Massachusetts-based defense electronics supplier Mercury Systems (NYSE: MRCY), Bloomberg reported Wednesday. U.K.-based Cobham eyes Mercury as a potential acquisition target after the latter’s board of directors moved to ex...
LinQuest has acquired defense technology company Hellebore Consulting Group for an undisclosed sum to expand capabilities in support of digital transformation efforts of Air Force Materiel Command and other customers in Dayton, Ohio. Beavercreek, Ohio-based Hellebore was founded in 2018 and provides DevSecOps and software engineering services in sup...
Michael Garson, general counsel at SOS International, has been promoted to take on the additional role of chief legal officer at the Reston, Virginia-based technology and services integrator. SOSi CEO and previous Wash100 awardee Julian Setian said in a statement released Tuesday the move reflects the expansion of the company’s ...
