Amanda Cody, a nearly two-decade data security veteran, has returned to Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) as chief information security officer. She previously held the CISO role at the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center and also supported Booz Allen’s defense and intelligence customers, the company said Wednesday. Cody a...
Hank Vanderborght, formerly a senior vice president of Precise Systems, has been promoted to chief operations officer at the Lexington Park, Maryland-based professional services provider. The retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel is responsible for managing the company’s contracting deals and technical and business programs in his COO position, Pr...
Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer at HP Federal and vital participant in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, is a seasoned veteran of the government-serving technology space. He has nursed a fascination with engineering since he was a young child, taking after a lineage of mechanical engineers in his father and both grandfathers. H...
Karen Hay, digital transformation leader of global public health at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said government agencies looking to expand access to health care services and mitigate public health challenges should advance digitization. “Digitization helps health workforce challenges as well as addressing the service backlog and supporting expande...
The U.S. Army awarded three companies positions on a five-year, $132 million contract to manufacture full-range practice bullet cartridges. Day & Zimmermann, Nammo and Canadian Commercial Corp. are the awardees on the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. Under the contract’s terms, the companies will compete fo...
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday reached a bipartisan agreement to suspend the debt ceiling for two years, reduce government spending during the period and increase military spending by approximately 3 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The deal would curb spending on domestic programs and increase the ag...
The U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance program has been a top priority for the service branch in recent years — NGAD is one of Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s famed seven operational imperatives — but the effort has been somewhat shrouded in secrecy. As the Air Force formally moves forward with its selection process...
Jon Rucker’s penchant for being at the forefront of innovative technology development was sparked during his time as an undergraduate at Virginia Tech. He was drawn to aerospace engineering, which led him to a job post-college at Lockheed Martin, where he focused his efforts on the tactical part of the business, conducting highly complex engineeri...
Particularly in the age of artificial intelligence, data is one of the most valuable assets. Personal information is being used by large private sector companies to fuel targeted advertising content, but in the military and defense realm, data is decidedly more serious, a variable at play in the global power struggle. New AI systems that...
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman was presented with his 2023 Wash100 Award last week at the Potomac Officers Club’s 4th Annual CIO Summit after delivering an insightful and inspiring opening keynote address. Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson joined Sherman on stage to deliver the prestigious accolade and congratul...
