Mohamad Ali, formerly CEO of IDG, has been named senior vice president of IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) professional services and consulting arm, succeeding John Granger, who is retiring after two decades of service to the company. Granger will become chairman of IBM Consulting and a senior adviser to Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM, until...
Naval Air Systems Command is seeking information on a follow-on multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide contracted maintenance, modification, aircrew and related services. The CMMARS contract will cover heavy depot maintenance for various Navy aircraft, aviation platforms and associated components, according to a n...
Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) board of directors has elected finance executive Kenneth Crews to succeed the retiring Dave Keffer as the company’s chief financial officer, effective Oct. 1. The Falls Church, Virginia-based company said Tuesday Keffer intends to retire on Feb. 21 to spend more time with his family. Crews, currently vice president...
In order to effectively realize Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control — a.k.a. CJADC2, the U.S. Department of Defense’s sweeping data-sharing initiative — information coded in different ways has to be aligned and translated. Since the effort spans across all DOD components and service branches, the inputs “all talk a different langua...
Arnab Chakraborty has assumed the newly created role of chief responsible AI officer at Accenture (NYSE: ACN), where he previously served as senior managing director for data and artificial intelligence. The company said Tuesday Chakraborty’s appointment aligns with Accenture’s efforts to expand its responsible AI capabilities, products ...
Empower AI CEO Jeff Bohling received his 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the recognition. Wash100 is an annual celebration of government contracting industry executives who have demonstrated tremendous leadership success. Winners of the elite Wash100 Award represent the most a...
Raytheon Vice President and Chief Information Officer Ken Wilcox has built his career on curiosity, embracing change and seizing opportunities, even if the challenge was uncomfortable. Wilcox came up through the ranks, having spent most of the last 25 years at RTX and various affiliated organizations. He started out as a software developer at Prat...
Mansour Yusuf, chief cloud/edge architect at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said artificial intelligence could help government agencies advance automation and intelligence-driven decision-making and improve performance and security when managing multicloud environments. AI “can run analytics against infrastructure and software to develop an u...
Cyber touches all aspects of the federal government in today’s digital world. Today, cyber is the foundation upon which emerging technologies and innovations are built, and cyber’s importance only continues to grow. On June 6, the Potomac Officers Club will host its 2024 Cyber Summit, bringing together the best and brightest minds in cyber to d...
Jeremy Wensinger, a 35-year government services and defense industry executive, has been hired to succeed Chuck Prow, a 2024 Wash100 awardee who has been at the helm of V2X (NYSE: VVX) since 2022, as president and CEO of the McLean, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor, effective June 17. V2X said Monday Wensinger will also serve...
