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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...
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...
Marin Halper, technical director of Mitre‘s Cross-Cutting Urgent Innovation Cell, has been promoted to a vice president position. The CUIC co-founder will apply the nonprofit company’s research and data in efforts to help industry partners, government agencies and their foreign allies address mission challenges, Mitre said Monday. Halper...
Mitre has received a $486.1 million cost-reimbursement-option contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue serving as administrator of a federally funded research and development organization. The Department of Defense said Monday Mitre will support the National Security Engineering Center through Sept. 30, 2023, and conduct contract work in Bedford...
Mitre has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of industry veteran Cedric Sims as senior vice president of enterprise innovation and integration and intelligence expert Austin Wang as VP of the intelligence center, Mitre National Security. Sims will come up with strategies to promote enterprisewide innovation and develop integration pla...
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...
