The U.S. Department of Defense famously established the Joint Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office in 2022 to formally indicate their commitment to embracing AI. But the Pentagon hasn’t stopped there — in the nearly year and a half since the CDAO’s creation, defense officials have demonstrated a persistent interest in implementing — an...
Gregg Melanson, former executive vice president and chief growth officer at Illuminate, has been appointed as CGO at technology consulting provider Acuity. The Reston, Virginia-headquartered company said Wednesday Melanson will be responsible for driving continued growth and expansion of its federal business. Before joining Illuminate, Melanson was ...
Dan Sallet, formerly vice president of finance for the electronic systems sector at BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary, has been promoted to senior VP of finance, succeeding Guy Montminy, who is retiring from the company in 2024. Sallet will work as part of the BAE Systems Inc. senior leadership team and report directly to President and...
Rob Zitz, an executive with an impressive combination of public and private sector experience, has secured the chairman role in Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Space Mission Assurance Group. It is Zitz’s 11th consecutive year leading the group, which is concerned with the government’s collaborative work with private industry to complete and exce...
Artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm, and its potential use cases are seemingly endless within the federal government, where agencies are looking for new ways to apply this rapidly advancing technology to support their missions. One area in which AI is shaping the future is healthcare, and the Department of Health and Human Serv...
Infrastructure and technical services company Arkel International has moved to expand its presence in the international construction market with the acquisition of San Juan Construction’s business line in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. John Moore, CEO of Arkel International, said in a statement the transaction will enable the company to adv...
Ken Rollins, technology architect for digital engineering/edge at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies seeking to accelerate technology modernization efforts and better use data to address complex challenges should consider adopting digital twins. “Digital twins require the foundations of a digitally transformed environment and...
As the chief acquisition executive at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, David Patrick is responsible for administering the agency’s acquisition and procurement efforts for new technologies and tools. He is CISA’s link to the government industrial base and actively seeks new opportunities to partner with the private secto...
Josh Petty, general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton, has been appointed chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 General Counsel Group. The 4×24 leadership program offers its members, who represent impactful organizations within the government contracting industry, a space to come together with top federal officials to consider critica...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International With its broad national security role, the DOD has been a pioneer in the development of numerous innovative cybersecurity solutions. This makes sense given its lengthy history and the quantity and caliber of resources devoted to both research and development and the acquisition of technol...
