We’re three weeks deep into the popular vote contest for the Wash100 Award, which means we’re nearly at the one month mark for this nail-biting, exciting race. Coalitions and strongholds in the top 30 ranking of the most prestigious names in government and government contracting have begun to take shape—though, as this week’s recap will...
Executive Mosaic‘s popular vote competition for the 10th annual Wash100 class kicked off three weeks ago and is driving continued participation by our readers and peers of this year’s esteemed group of government contracting figures. The Wash100 Award recognizes public and private sector leaders who demonstrated strategic vision, outstan...
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...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Atom Computing and PsiQuantum to demonstrate concepts for designing quantum machines. The three companies were selected for the initial phase of the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program based on their proposed novel approaches to building ...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has agreed to buy cyber threat analysis and research company Miburo for an undisclosed sum as the technology giant aims to help public and private sector organizations respond to foreign information operations. Tom Burt, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s customer security and trust organization, wrote in a blog e...
Gabriele Masili, former chief digital and technology officer of customer experience and success at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been named chief customer officer at citizen engagement software provider Granicus. Masili has 25 years of technology industry experience that included support to hundreds of millions of customers globally, Granicus said T...
Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal, was officially presented his 2022 Wash100 Award during a recent visit to the company’s office by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. For his fifth consecutive Wash100 Award win, Wagner was recognized by Executive Mosaic for his innovative leadership and drive for continuous organic growth for Micr...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has closed its approximately $19.7 billion cash acquisition of artificial intelligence company Nuance Communications as both companies aim to offer cloud-based AI platforms. Microsoft first announced the $56-per-share deal in April last year and the multinational technology company said Friday that Mark Benjamin will continu...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s U.S. federal subsidiary, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award. He has been chosen five consecutive times to Executive Mosaic’s annual list of executives who continually drive growth and innovation in the government contracting sector. Cast a vote for him as one of...
Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s federal arm and a four-time Wash100 awardee, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. He talked about the company’s cybersecurity investment and FastTrack program support, the Digital Defense Report results and other Microsoft efforts to develop it...
