Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2022. He will also serve on the association’s executive committee along with Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile, who is set...
Winston Beauchamp and Jay Bonci, respectively the deputy chief information officer and chief technology officer at the Department of the Air Force, will deliver keynote speeches at a Dec. 15 virtual forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss IT programs at the Air Force and Space Force. The “AF IT Modernization and Digital...
Chris Fall, former director at the Department of Energy’s science office, has joined Mitre as vice president of applied sciences for the nonprofit corporation’s research and development organization. He will oversee Mitre Labs’ R&D programs that explore quantum computing, synthetic biology, space, material science and other eme...
Leaders from the Defense Information Systems Agency and the departments of the Navy and the Air Force are scheduled to discuss the military’s current technology acquisition environment at a Dec. 7 panel discussion hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire). Douglas Packard, director of DISA’s procur...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has asked vendors to submit information about space weather data offerings as the agency looks to expand its information-gathering platforms. NOAA said Wednesday it will use input from the commercial sector to plan future pilot studies and acquisition programs. The agency is interested in learning ...
Tom McCaffery, former assistant secretary for health affairs at the Department of Defense, has joined research and consulting firm Health Management Associates as a principal. He will work from HMA’s office in Washington, D.C. and brings military health care program experience to his new position, the company said Wednesday. McCaffery noted th...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has won a potential five-year, $785 million task order to develop information and electronic warfare platforms for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command to address emerging threats. The single-award task order would expand mission support services the company provides to USASOC and the command’s strategic par...
Four former Internal Revenue Service officials have joined the citizen services team at Peraton to lead and support the company’s engagements with the agency. Julie Rushin, who previously served as deputy CIO for information technology at IRS, will be director of Peraton’s IRS portfolio, the company said Friday. Rushin brings 38 years of...
A proposed $1.75 trillion social safety net spending and climate change bill known as the Build Back Better Act includes language that would require a 1 percent tax on stock repurchases, a provision that could have a potential impact on defense companies, Defense One reported Friday. The Build Back Better framework seeks to “stop large,...
Federal agencies are working to integrate artificial intelligence into their infrastructures as they iteratively replace outdated legacy systems and optimize essential operations to match adversarial capabilities in the digital age. As a boost to this critical initiative, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio introduced the Adv...
