A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has secured a five-year, $88.2 million contract to develop a cloud-based information technology platform for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to find and transmit huge amounts of complex data from GEOINT sources. The General Dynamics IT business will provide software development servic...
Joseph Ritzel, senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Day & Zimmermann, will retire from the company on April 1 after four decades of service. Joseph Ritzel His position will be filled by Kathleen King, vice president of corporate development, the engineering and construction firm said Wednesday. Ritzel started his caree...
Executive Mosaic is honored to induct Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman into the 2023 edition of the Wash100 for his work cultivating closer partnerships with the DOD’s industrial base and allied forces, trailblazing the department’s cloud adoption journey and spearheading information technology innovation across...
The U.S. federal government has sharpened its focus on cybersecurity in recent months; the Department of Defense released its zero trust strategy and roadmap at the close of 2022, and the Biden-Harris administration debuted a new national cybersecurity strategy just last week. In a statement published March 2, 2023 the White House said the...
BioMADE, a Department of Defense-sponsored manufacturing innovation institute, has received a budget hike of about $450 million from DOD to help advance bioindustrial manufacturing education and innovation. “BioMADE’s research and development is already yielding significant progress in biomanufactured proteins, chemicals, fabrics, rubber, and mo...
Imran Bashir, a technology leader and subject matter expert on cloud computing, has joined ITC Federal as chief technology officer. He will oversee the company’s innovation and strategic growth efforts and help improve customer and partner experience, ITC Federal said Friday. ITC Federal CEO Greg Fitzgerald said Bashir brings to the executive team...
Scott Ostrowski, a 20-year U.S. Coast Guard veteran and former chief technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has been named vice president of the federal business at Menlo Park, California-headquartered artificial intelligence technology developer Latent AI. Latent AI said he brings industry experience in product development and technology ...
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has formed a $250 million venture investment fund to back generative artificial intelligence technology projects and introduced a customer relationship management platform that employs OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. Salesforce said Tuesday its ventures arm will invest in Anthropic, Cohere, Hearth.AI and You.com through the...
Executive Mosaic is excited to honor Pat Mungovan, senior vice president of Oracle’s North American government and education business, with his second Wash100 Award in acknowledgment of his leadership in driving Oracle’s continued growth and expanding its presence as a staple provider of cloud services for the public sector. In it...
The private sector is known for its rapid technological innovation process unencumbered by bureaucracy, restrictive requirements or mysterious funding procedures. Unfortunately, these qualities have not typically described the innovation process within the U.S. federal government; but now, public sector leaders are taking a page from the commercial ...
