In February of last year, the Department of Defense identified microelectronics as one of its 14 critical technology areas of focus. Since then, the federal government has taken steps to rejuvenate this industry within the U.S., most notably with the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, which aims to rebuild the domestic semiconductor manufact...
Adam Clater, chief architect of Red Hat‘s North America public sector organization, said government agencies need a “consistent interface layer” that would allow them to manage applications and work with multiple cloud service providers as procurement changes and congressional bills push them to deploy multicloud environments. “Users can...
GovCon industry veterans Katie Selbe, Sarah Otchet and John Fant have joined the executive leadership team of Eqlipse Technologies, a newly formed platform of Arlington Capital Partners. The appointments come one week after ACP announced the formation of Eqlipse to pursue national security business opportunities in cyber, signals intelligence engine...
Teresa Shea, formerly a vice president at Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has been appointed senior adviser to the global public sector team at enterprise software-as-a-service company SandboxAQ. She will draw from her nearly four decades of combined government and industry experience to provide the team with insight to support public sector orga...
Veritas Capital CEO and Managing Partner Ramzi Musallam has been inducted into the 2023 edition of the prestigious Wash100 Award in recognition of his outstanding leadership at the helm of an investment company whose footprint in the government technology market is substantial and continuously expanding. The Wash100 Award is a forwar...
The U.S. Space Force has awarded 18 companies positions on a potential five-year, $900 million contract to provide data software services to help meet warfighters’ requirements. Space Systems Command received 34 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and expects work to occur in El Segundo, California, thro...
Julie Jarrell Gresham, deputy chief counsel at HII (NYSE: HII) since October 2021, has been promoted to succeed George Simmerman Jr. as vice president and chief counsel of the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division. Simmerman is set to retire from HII at the end of March after a 32-year career, the military shipbuilder said Friday. Gresham...
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) and PlanetiQ will provide space-based radio occultation data products to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under a shared follow-on contract worth $59.3 million over five years. NOAA awarded the Radio Occultation Data Buy II vehicle as part of an agency initiative to evaluate the impact of commercial data ...
Danielle Willard, a veteran corporate counsel in the government contracting sector, has joined Ultra Electronics’ maritime business unit as senior vice president and general counsel. She will report to Carlo Zaffanella, president and CEO of Ultra Maritime, as she oversees legal, contracts, compliance and security teams through the company’s offi...
Executive Mosaic is honored to name U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro to the 2023 Wash100 list for spearheading Navy infrastructure modernization initiatives, reforming acquisition processes and driving technology innovation across the service branch. This marks Del Toro’s debut on the Wash100 list, which annually recognizes distinguis...
