Oki Mek, who served as the first chief artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as chief information security officer for the company’s federal civilian business, according to his LinkedIn announcement Wednesday. Prior to this appointment, he held a short stint as CISO ...
Across the U.S. GovCon landscape, defense agencies are accelerating their modernization and digital transformation efforts. DOD agencies are harnessing new technologies and capabilities like cloud, digital engineering and data analytics to meet the evolving needs of warfighters in the digital age. Executive Mosaic spoke with Nazzic Keene,...
Veritas Capital has raised $10.65 billion in capital commitments for its eighth fund to further support its strategy to invest in technology companies that provide critical services and products to government and commercial customers. The New York-based government investment firm said Wednesday Fund VIII closed within a year and was oversubscribed, ...
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Ventech Solutions has named Fred Altimont and Tony Meyer, respectively former executives at Optum Health and Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), senior vice presidents of growth and business development. They will report to Ventech CEO Tonia Bleecher and aim to grow the health care technology provider’s public sector busines...
The Missile Defense Agency has informed industry that it will conduct a small business set-aside competition and issue a single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to procure data support services. MDA expects to release a preliminary request for proposals for the Agency Information Management and Software Services program in the ...
Meghan Gifford has been promoted from senior director to vice president of corporate development and strategy at Reston, Virginia-headquartered government technology provider Octo. She will collaborate with Octo’s executive leadership team and board of directors on overseeing the company’s strategic planning and merger-and-acquisition in...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has named telecommunications industry veterans Zee Hussain and Jim Bugel as president of the company’s public sector business and president of its FirstNet program, respectively, in a string of leadership changes that will take effect on Oct. 16. Hussain will succeed Jason Porter (2022 Wash100 inductee), who will assume a new le...
Amanda “Mandy” Long, most recently vice president of information technology automation at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has joined BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) as CEO and a board member. Long succeeds Reggie Brothers, who will stay as a company adviser and transition to the role of operating partner at BigBear’s private equity owner AE Industrial Partners, the ...
Boecore, a portfolio company of private investment firm Enlightenment Capital, has purchased space systems provider Ascension Engineering Group for an undisclosed sum. AEG is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business founded in 2017 and provides satellite communications engineering platforms for NASA, the U.S. Army, U.S. Space Force, other def...
