Byron Bright, president of government solutions at KBR and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He talked about the key factors that led to a 27 percent year-over-year growth for KBR in fiscal year 2021 and the initiatives to capitalize on that success....
Robert Samuels, an investment and financial analysis professional with two decades of Wall Street experience, has been appointed as the first vice president of investor relations and corporate communications at Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL). Michael Porcelain, president and CEO of Comtech, said in a statement published Monday that Samuel...
ExecutiveBiz featured Kim Lynch, executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. She discussed company culture and core values as well as workforce retention and expansion efforts. Lynch also talked about Booz Allen’s strategic goals for growth in 2022 and how artificial intel...
The Department of Defense is working to overcome international policy-related hurdles, data tagging challenges and training obstacles as it looks to build resilient mission partner environments and implement JADC2 on an enterprise level. These issues are becoming increasingly more urgent today as the tense geopolitical landscape continues to change,...
Guidehouse has named health experts Sarah Garnett and Kristin Porter as public sector health leader and head of the Department of Veterans Affairs account team, respectively, within the management consulting firm’s health segment. Garnett will bring to the role her experience working with leadership teams from federal health agencies, research ins...
DMI has purchased Aurotech for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to broaden its technical capabilities in data and analytics, build up its portfolio of digital transformation services and expand its client base in federal markets. Aurotech was founded in 2007 and provides application development, cybersecurity, data science and analytics, digita...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is eyeing a cloud migration that could be transformative for the agency’s National Weather Service and open up new possibilities for the future of forecasting, according to a top NWS official. Mary Erickson, acting assistant administrator for NOAA and acting director for NWS, said her organizatio...
Alan Chvotkin, partner at Nichols Liu and member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. He discussed the firm’s growth initiatives, the policy changes in acquisition regulations concerning the government contracting sector and the findings of ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $108 million award to obtain long-lead items required for the initial production lot of the U.S. Air Force’s B-21 Raider bomber planes. USAF said Wednesday the company will manufacture the program’s first batch on an assembly line employing technicians, processes and tools that have been applie...
Courtney Hawkins, health and human services industry executive at Salesforce’s (NYSE: CRM), global public sector, said adopting cloud-based technologies could help public health agencies accelerate the deployment of services to meet the needs of citizens during a pandemic and other health emergencies. “Agencies could leverage cloud-based, low- o...
