Artificial intelligence has exploded in recent months, and in the public sector, officials are harnessing AI technology across a myriad of missions, information technology operations, weapons systems and more. Executive Mosaic spoke with ECS President John Heneghan, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner, in a new video interview to get his thoughts on whic...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured an approximately $50 million contract to help the U.S. Navy’s Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory to study the health and performance of undersea warfighters. The contract was competitively procured and not fixed price due to the nature of the work, according to an award notice posted Wednesday on SAM.go...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has ceased upcoming deployments of the Oracle Cerner electronic health record system as part of a program reset aimed at addressing EHR-related issues that were identified at five VA health facilities during the “assess and address” period. VA said Friday it will resume EHR deployment activities once the system...
The Defense Health Agency has upheld its decision to select TriWest Health Alliance as the new managed care services provider in the western U.S. region of the U.S. military’s Tricare program. DHA on Thursday asserted that TriWest won the $65.1 billion T-5 MCS contract, after the agency reviewed and dismissed a bid protest Health Net...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) logged total revenue of $205.3 million for the first quarter of 2023, up 22 percent year-over-year from $168.2 million and noted total billable subscribers for the January-March period reached 2.05 million. The satellite communications company said Thursday that about $139.3 million of Q1 revenue came from servi...
The acceleration of technology development in the modern era has presented a myriad of new challenges that have transformed fundamental elements of the Department of Homeland Security’s mission. A panel of experts at GovCon Wire’s Defending the Homeland: Science & Technology Forum said Tuesday that DHS has embraced its own evolutio...
Cybersecurity firm Forcepoint is looking to divest its government security unit for over $2 billion and is working with Citigroup on the potential sale as the company looks to focus on building up its commercial business, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources said no deal has been signed since discussions over the potential sale are still in...
Healthcare delivery is increasingly determined and shaped by technology and digital platforms. The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in an era of virtual appointments, among other practices, many of which will likely remain indefinitely. But from a wider vantage, the larger trend toward digitalization means that government health agencies and private provid...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said that DOD will introduce a new “effort” to facilitate industry collaboration in bringing commercial space platforms to the U.S. warfighter mission, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “The goal of this effort is to incorporate [t...
The United States is in a transformative era rich with technological innovation and opportunity, but we have to do more to anticipate the threats these emerging technologies may unlock, according to Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov, undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security. In his opening keynote address during ...
