Baird hosted its fourth annual Government & Defense Conference on Wednesday to bring together the members of the government contracting (GovCon) sector, the federal government and industry to discuss the key industry trends and market outlook from the elite leaders across the federal landscape. The conference was held as an in-person conference ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 19, 2021 — The Department of Veterans Affairs has processed 10 million community care referrals using a Cognosante-implemented website for referral and authorization management, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Community Care Referral and Authorization System is used by all 155 VA Medical Centers to collectively process...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Climate Resilience: Reducing Risk and Creating Opportunities Fireside Chat on Thursday, which gathered together leading climate experts in a timely discussion on how industry is partnering with city, state and federal governments and communities to implement robust climate resilience and adaptation plans as extreme wea...
Sam Gordy, a former IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been named chief operating officer and president of the federal division at artificial intelligence company BigBear.ai. In his new capacity, Gordy will be responsible for overseeing BigBear.ai’s day-to-day operations and driving its growth in the federal market, ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2021 — American Systems‘ enterprise information systems directorate and modeling simulation and analysis directorate programs were granted a Maturity Level 3 appraisal under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration framework, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Peter Smith, president and CEO of Amer...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2021 — Tim Conway, president of NTT Data‘s public sector group and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the company will work with Maryland to help its health department pursue “modernization and equity of care,” ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. NTT Data will support the state’s creation of a p...
On Wednesday, GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense and Intelligence: IT Modernization Forum, which gathered elite defense, intelligence and commercial sector leaders to divulge the technological priorities, key strategies and innovative initiatives driving the Defense Intelligence Agency’s digital transformation goals as rapid information ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 17, 2021 — Michael Shrader, vice president of innovative and intelligence solutions at Carahsoft Technology, has encouraged the use of emerging technologies as government agencies face evolving operational challenges and changing customer needs, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. He wrote in a blog post that emerging-tech compan...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 16, 2021 — A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) vice president has expressed the need for the Department of Defense to employ evolutionary capabilities and revolutionary platforms to ensure that missile defense could take on emerging hypersonic and cruise missile threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. “We need to have ...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has agreed to acquire Planetary Systems Corp. in a cash-and-stock transaction to further build up its space systems business and end-to-end offerings across launch and space hardware markets. Rocket Lab said Monday it agreed to pay $42 million in cash and 1,720,841 in shares of common stock to buy PSC...
