Mitre has secured a $498.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue operating a federally funded research and development center conducting research in cybersecurity and other technical areas. The nonprofit research organization will remain as the administrator of the National Security Engineering Center under the sole source, cost-reimb...

Deborah Youmans, former vice president and deputy chief information officer at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has been named CIO at not-for-profit research and development organization Mitre. She will supervise more than 400 IT professionals within Mitre’s enterprise computing and information systems unit, the non-for-profit research and dev...

Kevin Toner, former managing director of treasury, economics and commerce at Mitre, has been elevated to the role of vice president of the organization’s Center for Government Effectiveness and Modernization. He will lead the team that supports work programs and emerging technologies under the federally funded Center for Enterprise Modernizati...

Mitre Vice President and Chief Acceleration Officer Laurie Giandomenico has been elevated to the position of senior vice president. She will continue overseeing the not-for-profit company’s tech foundation, Engenuity, and incubation and innovation programs, the research organization said Monday. Giandomenico initially joined Mitre in 1991 as a...

John Sviety, director of finance at Peraton’s civil space business unit for the past seven months, has assumed a vice president position. Sviety announced his promotion at the Reston, Virginia-based company to VP of finance for citizen security and public services in a LinkedIn post published Monday. He joined Peraton in October 2022 after ser...

MorganFranklin Consulting has added executives Beau Hammond and Asela Wijesiri to its leadership team as managing directors. Beau Hammond Hammond, most recently director of strategy and transformation at MorganFranklin, oversees the finance and technology advisory firm’s efforts in supporting the missions of customers in the global aerospace and d...

As the U.S. military pivots toward the escalating peer competition and accelerates its migration to the cloud, its leaders are examining how to leverage cloud computing from operational scenarios all the way to the tactical edge. Expanding the military’s technological capabilities at the edge is going to be paramount in the future fight, according...

Todd Helfrich, vice president of federal sales at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said government agencies should advance cyber resiliency, adopt industry best practices and reduce the identity attack surface to protect endpoints and networks from cyber adversaries. Helfrich wrote that cyber resiliency has been highlighted by the release of guidance by the N...

Mitre has been selected by the Department of Transportation to operate a prototype virtual application built to help developers test cooperative driving automation systems. The Federal Highway Administration created the Virtual Open Innovation Collaborative Environment for Safety platform for multiple entities to participate simultaneously in synthe...

Reston Virginia-based Octo has promoted Rob Albritton from senior director of the technology company’s artificial intelligence practice to a vice president position. In his new capacity, Albritton will continue to lead Octo’s strategy and vision for AI and machine learning and help grow its tech portfolio for the intelligence, health car...