Artificial intelligence has unlocked a myriad of threats and opportunities in the last two years with the acceleration of technological innovation in the AI space. Today, generative AI tools and large language models are still nascent and risky — but government leaders are seeing promise for the technology’s future. Defense Intelligence Agency C...
The Wash100 Award popular vote contest — a friendly yet fiery match-up between the government contracting industry’s most exceptional talents — has been going on for nearly three months now, but this week may have been its most exciting yet. The number one seed, Booz Allen Hamilton’s Judi Dotson, is hanging on to her spot, but there...
Godspeed Capital Management has partnered with Special Aerospace Services to establish a new platform focused on delivering space engineering, missile defense, hypersonics and communications technologies to U.S. defense and intelligence community agencies and commercial space clients. Heather Bulk, co-founder and CEO of SAS, will lead the new platfo...
The U.S. Army has started soliciting information from stakeholders to help inform its acquisition approach for the planned Army Contracting Command Enterprise for Sourcing Services procurement program, also known as ACCESS. ACCESS will be the successor to the multiple-award Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
Rick Simpson, formerly chief financial officer at CB Insights, has assumed the CFO position at Exostar, a Herndon, Virginia-headquartered provider of cloud-based secure business collaboration software. Simpson brings to the role three decades of experience overseeing corporate development, financial planning and analysis, human resources, corporate ...
Crystal Hair, a cloud strategist with nearly two decades of industry experience, has been named chief technology officer at A-TEK, a McLean, Virginia-headquartered provider of information technology services to government agencies. Hair will drive digital and technical strategies, oversee the implementation of the company’s digital road map an...
Software developer Bluestaq has named Brandon Tripp, a previous director at the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and former member of the Army special forces, as its new chief growth officer. Bluestaq announced the appointment on LinkedIn, touting Tripp’s “innovative leadership” and “extensive background in aerospa...
One of the more ambitious missions of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent memory is its dynamic spectrum sharing, or DSS, framework. This initiative aims to identify a pathway to securely open up a spectrum band to commercial wireless users that is typically used for critical military purposes like missile deterrence. The DOD’s work...
ECS President John Heneghan was recently presented with his third Wash100 Award during a meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and creator of the esteemed Wash100 Award. Wash100 is an annual commemoration of government contracting industry executives who have established themselves as forces to be reckoned with in the field. A Wash...
By Bill Webner, CEO of Capgemini Government Solutions, in collaboration with Melissa Hatton, AI Strategy Lead at Capgemini Government Solutions; James Farnsworth, Chief U.S. Compliance & Regulatory Counsel at Capgemini America, Inc.; and Johnathan Duffie, Senior Legal Counsel & Americas AI Legal Lead at Capgemini America, Inc Artificial inte...
