William LaPlante, nominee for the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment role, has been selected to receive Executive Mosaic’s 2022 Wash100 Award in recognition of his weapons procurement vision and agenda. This year marks the first time LaPlante appears on the annual list of public and private sector leaders who shape the g...
John Sherman, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has been named acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer with oversight of DOD’s strategy and policy development efforts for data, AI and analytics. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote in a Tuesday memo that the office of ...
Tenable Holdings (Nasdaq: TENB) has agreed to purchase Cymptom, a cybersecurity startup that specializes in mapping attack paths, in a deal that would add analytics to Tenable’s risk-based vulnerability management platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed and Tenable said Tuesday it plans to integrate Cymptom’s agentless attack path...
Executive Mosaic’s ninth annual Wash100 award selection was officially announced Wednesday to recognize 100 leaders from the worlds of government, industry and academia who have made noteworthy contributions to their organizations and the government contracting sector. The Wash100 is the premier class of business executives, agency officials a...
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, has announced the winners of the 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of GovCon to recognize the 100 executives who will impact the sector in the coming year. The 2022 Was...
Katharyn White, who left IBM (NYSE: IBM) in 2017 after she served as vice president of transformation for IBM Consulting (formally IBM Global Business Services), has returned to the company to lead ecosystem for its federal business, GovCon Wire has learned. Her two-decade Big Blue career also includes roles as chief marketing officer of IBM...
Jerry Hogge, a more than three-decade GovCon industry veteran, has joined Calibre Systems as executive vice president and chief operations officer. He will oversee Calibre’s all profit centers and business development efforts and lead initiatives to ensure that the company has the needed operational controls, people systems and reporting and admin...
Executive Mosaic’s flagship GovCon Wire will feature Lisa Costa, chief technology and innovation officer of the U.S. Space Force, as the keynote speaker at a Jan. 13 virtual forum to offer the government contracting community an insight into digital modernization efforts at the Department of Defense. Costa was appointed to her current role in ...
President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...
Holly Freedlander, corporate controller of Xator since September 2019, has been promoted to serve as chief financial officer at the Reston, Virginia-based security and intelligence services provider starting May 1. She will succeed the retiring Matt Galaski, who has led the company’s overall financial operations since 2014 and led the financin...
