Evan Lovell, chief investment officer of the Virgin Group, has been appointed chair of the board of directors at commercial spaceflight and vehicle development company Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE). Lovell has served as the company’s interim chair since February 2022 and has two decades of global private equity and mergers and acquisitions expe...
Artificial intelligence has exploded in recent months, and in the public sector, officials are harnessing AI technology across a myriad of missions, information technology operations, weapons systems and more. Executive Mosaic spoke with ECS President John Heneghan, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner, in a new video interview to get his thoughts on whic...
ASRC Federal has acquired Manassas, Virginia-headquartered Broadleaf as part of government portfolio and market expansion efforts. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and ASRC Federal said Monday the company gains 600 employees who provide support to the U.S. Army, Navy and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. “Th...
Five companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $16 billion contract to support loan servicing requirements under the Department of Education’s federal student aid program, according to award notices posted Tuesday on SAM.gov. Maximus (NYSE: MMS), Central Research Inc, EdFinancial Services, Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority and Ne...
A report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute shows that amid high inflation, U.S. defense spending hit $877 billion in 2022, accounting for 39 percent of total military expenditure worldwide and reflecting a 0.7 percent real terms increase in spending. SIPRI said Monday the U.S. earmarked $295 billion to military operations and...
Amazon Web Services announced Monday that it has teamed up with Constellation Research to publish a report in aid of public sector chief information officers who are managing their organizations’ digital assets. “The CIO Imperative for Digital Assets in the Public Sector” report includes recommendations on how to select and implement tools...
John Sviety, director of finance at Peraton’s civil space business unit for the past seven months, has assumed a vice president position. Sviety announced his promotion at the Reston, Virginia-based company to VP of finance for citizen security and public services in a LinkedIn post published Monday. He joined Peraton in October 2022 after ser...
James Merante, a certified public accountant with operations management experience at public and private companies, has been appointed senior vice president of finance, strategy and corporate development at Day and Zimmermann. D&Z said Friday the newly created role will require Merante to align corporate finance and strategy-related functional t...
Umme Hasnain, a contract management executive with more than a decade of industry experience, has been appointed chief administrative officer and senior vice president of business operations at Unissant. She will manage the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered data analytics company’s overall procurement and legal functions, including pricing and f...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has ceased upcoming deployments of the Oracle Cerner electronic health record system as part of a program reset aimed at addressing EHR-related issues that were identified at five VA health facilities during the “assess and address” period. VA said Friday it will resume EHR deployment activities once the system...
