Peter Carlson, formerly vice president of financial planning and analysis at DMI, has been appointed chief financial officer at the McLean, Virginia-based provider of end-to-end digital transformation services. Carlson has over two decades of experience in strategic planning, professional services, mergers and acquisitions, business integration and ...
The U.S. Space Force has unveiled a new strategy detailing how the service branch will enhance its capability development processes and foster commercial partnerships to improve the country’s competitive advantage. The military branch said Wednesday it will implement the Commercial Space Strategy through four lines of effort: collaborative tra...
Carrie George, formerly a vice president at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), has been named VP, chief financial officer and treasurer at nonprofit research and development company Draper. George, who brings to the role two decades of aerospace and defense industry experience, will oversee efforts to drive the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company...
Battelle has received a potential seven-year, $350 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command for the acquisition of nonstandard commercial vehicles. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers lifecycle replacement of USSOCOM’s fleet of NSCVs, ancillary vehicle modifications and supply of armament, communications an...
Artificial intelligence has defined the technological landscape in the United States for nearly the past two years. As leaders from the public and private sectors alike grapple with the new AI era, data governance and democratizing AI access have emerged as key priorities, especially for agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency. “I cannot str...
Bill Luebke, formerly principal accounting officer, senior vice president and controller at Peraton, has been named chief financial officer at Agile Defense, succeeding Daniel Yuly, who will transition into a new role at the company. Luebke will be responsible for overseeing the overall financial management and strategy functions at Agile Defense an...
5G communications are not merely the province of our cell phones: they come with abundant potential for government and military uses and for bolstering national security. They can play a key role in Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, be implemented when building smarter cities and in enhancing the warfighter’s toolkit. U.S. federal off...
Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, is the U.S. Department of Defense’s ambitious plan to increase connectivity across all battle scenarios, remote outposts and amongst all DOD components and international allies. Over the last five years, the DOD has worked — and struggled — to achieve its goals for the initiative, and o...
Michelle Freeman, formerly corporate controller at Tech Systems, has been named chief financial officer at network intelligence platform developer Axellio. She brings to the role over two decades of industry experience in managing corporate acquisitions, business transactions and enterprise resource planning system implementations, the Colorado Spri...
At the 2023 AI Summit, from Potomac Officers Club, Central Intelligence Agency Director of Artificial Intelligence Lakshmi Raman discussed the importance of prioritizing AI in light of the mounting sophistication of near-peer adversaries like China and Iran’s autonomous arsenals. “AI-enhanced technology across all sectors of society brings wi...
