Rob Cotton, director of federal civilian growth at SkyePoint Decisions, has been promoted to vice president of growth at the Dulles, Virginia-based cybersecurity company, according to a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. In his new capacity, Cotton leads a team of business development, capture and proposal professionals to identify new opportunities a...
Advanced Technology Leaders has won a potential five-year, $365 million contract from the U.S. Army to support the program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation under the third iteration of the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance program. Army Contracting Command received 17 bids for the SETI III firm-fixed-price con...
Leigh Barnhill, a finance executive with nearly a decade of experience with General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and its information technology business, has joined Omni Federal to serve as chief financial officer and support the digital transformation firm’s growth efforts. According to a LinkedIn post, Barnhill is a senior leader with extensive finan...
Bitcoin, the world’s first and largest cryptocurrency, is most widely viewed as a new kind of digital money. But as it matures and advances, Bitcoin is poised to create significant impact in a broad range of industries and areas beyond just the financial sector. Dhruv Bansal, co-founder and chief science officer of Unchained Capital, says Bit...
The global defense landscape has seen an obvious shift from counterterrorism to peer and near-peer competition in recent years, which has in turn spurred an increased focus on tighter collaboration between service branches, partners and allied forces around the world. Defense leaders believe the future fight will be fought jointly, with coalition pa...
Mike Mulcahy, a digital transformation and strategy development leader for global public-sector aerospace and government system integrators at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said the talent shortage in the aerospace and defense industry reflects the need for the industry to keep up with technological developments. “The loss of talent is only the symp...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will provide enterprise technology services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a multiyear, $463 million contract. USSOCOM works with Palantir to manage large amounts of data using the latter’s software platform to support decision-making processes, the data analytics company said Monday. “Our par...
U.S. Marine Corps veteran and two-time Wash100 Award winner Dana Barnes was sought out by the world of information technology, rather than chasing it himself. He was recruited by IBM in the late 1990s, where he participated in the Business Development Professionals Program, initiating his passion for solving business problems with technology and a f...
CGI Federal President Stephanie Mango was recently presented with her 2023 Wash100 Award during a meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and creator of the esteemed honor. The annual Wash100 Award is the highest honor for executives in the vast government contracting industry. To select each cohort of winners, the annual competition...
Deltek has introduced the latest version of Costpoint, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning software product designed to help government contractors simplify business processes. Costpoint 8.2 comes with additional features to automate capture and contract management, source to pay and project accounting processes and automatic email reminders ...
