As the Department of Defense and U.S. military branches forge ahead with their adoption of advanced technology like artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity must be the foundation for these efforts, not just an afterthought, according to chief intelligence officers from government and industry. During a panel discussion at the Pot...
Raj Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, was officially presented his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), during the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit where Iyer was featured as an expert panelist. Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the second consecutive Wash...
ExecutiveBiz featured Cliff Gornto, senior vice president of business development at KBR, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He talked about the company’s past acquisitions and how they contributed to its portfolio, technical capabilities and customer value. Gornto also discussed KBR’s recent quarterly re...
The U.S. Air Force has released a draft request for proposals for a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for enterprise cybersecurity support services. The Enterprise Cyber Capabilities multi-award, IDIQ contract seeks to streamline the acquisition process for cyber services, enable warfighters to maintain information ...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that John Sherman, chief information officer for the Department of Defense (DOD), officially received his 2022 Wash100 Award during the 3rd Annual CIO Summit from Potomac Officers Club where Sherman was featured as the leading keynote speaker. John Sherman was presented with the most prestigious and acclai...
The U.S. Intelligence Community is prioritizing cloud migration as it works to push capabilities out to the tactical edge and better support U.S. warfighters with access to critical data. Notably along this effort, the Department of Defense recently released its software modernization strategy, which replaces its 2018 cloud strategy and more clearl...
The Department of Veterans Affairs is working to move past its tendency to “take orders” and instead shift towards a vision-driven approach as the department makes progress on its overarching modernization goals. “Inside the VA, as a government bureaucracy, our IT shop has an embedded DNA of taking orders, trying to meet those needs for...
Nand Mulchandani, most recently chief technology officer at the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, has been appointed the first CTO at the CIA. He will bring to the role over 25 years of government and industry experience and help advance innovation in support of the CIA’s mission, the agency said Friday. CIA Direc...
Houston-based Bristow Group (NYSE: VTOL) has agreed to buy British International Helicopter Services for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to further build up its government services business. Vertical flight platforms provider Bristow said Friday it expects the all-cash transaction to conclude in the third quarter of 2022, pending regulatory ap...
For the Social Security Administration, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 was the impetus for a much-needed digital transformation that has ushered the agency into a new era of speed, accuracy and efficiency. During his keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit, Sean Brune, SSA’s chief information o...
