Beacon Global Strategies has expanded its senior leadership team with the addition of Andrew Makridis as a senior adviser, Peter Modigliani as a vice president within the national security technology division and Matthew Sysak as chief financial officer. Makridis served as the CIA’s chief operating officer for four years and retired in 2022 af...
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...
Throughout its many agencies and departments, the U.S. government is currently in the midst of a push toward evolving its systems and tools. Many federal entities are overhauling legacy — or established, often physical storage-based — architectures to make way for cloud-derived systems that are seen as functionally efficient and economically pru...
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...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
The U.S. Space Force is conducting market research into potential vendors that can help the branch develop, implement, update and expand software platforms to defend its networks and associated computer systems. USSF said Wednesday in a SAM.gov notice that the government intends to procure industry services to support the Space Systems Command’...
America’s Frontier Fund has officially launched as a nonprofit investment fund with a focus on scaling companies and their deep technologies to ensure that the U.S. and its allies maintain tech advantage amid a great power competition. AFF said Thursday its initial focus areas will include artificial intelligence, microelectronics, next-generation...
