The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started buying weather data from satellite companies Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) and GeoOptics and kicked off testing data from a third company in 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. GeoOptics and Spire were two of the three companies that secured contracts from NOAA in July to supply s...
Centerpoint, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gunnison Consulting Group, will provide cybersecurity support services to the Library of Congress Information System Security Officer under a potential five-year, $23 million contract. Ed Silva, chief strategy officer of Gunnison, said in a statement released Wednesday the award marks the first joint submiss...
Haywood “Woody” Talcove, CEO of the government business at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, was recently presented his 2022 Wash100 Award during a visit to the company’s office in Virginia by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize Haywood Talcove as a three-time Wash100 Award recipient for his persistent ...
Nicole Piasecki Kymeta has announced the appointment of aerospace industry veteran Nicole Piasecki to the board of directors and Fran Beaudette, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, to the board of advisers. Piasecki has more than 35 years of experience at Boeing (NYSE: BA) and United Technologies Corp. and her appointment comes following the ret...
Guidehouse, a Veritas Capital portfolio company, has agreed to buy the public sector advisory practice of professional services firm Grant Thornton for an undisclosed sum. McLean, Virginia-based Guidehouse said Monday it expects the transaction to close in the second half of the year and add to the company a group of professionals that advises gover...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 23, 2022 — BlueHalo will provide an undisclosed government customer with its Titan counter-unmanned aerial system products under a recently awarded $24 million Department of Defense contract, ExecutiveGov reported. “Harnessing BlueHalo’s industry-leading artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, Tit...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 22, 2022 — Howard Porter, corporate director and senior vice president of contracts at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has talked about the company’s contract management system and how it serves as a centralized data platform for facilitating decision-making processes, ExecutiveBiz reported. “Our contract syste...
Guidehouse has finalized the integration of Dovel Technologies and introduced a new practice focused on supporting clients’ mission-critical projects through digital transformation and enhancing the digital employee experience. Paul Phaneuf, a partner at Guidehouse and has over three decades of information technology and consulting experience in b...
In the most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Liz Martin, director of the Department of Defense business at Amazon Web Services, to discuss how artificial intelligence and machine learning could enhance decision making for the DOD. She also talked about AWS’ efforts to help organizations address cybersecurity threat...
David Duncan, former technical director of Redpoint Cybersecurity, has transitioned to a new role as vice president of cyber operations at the information security company. He will oversee Redpoint’s breach response group and the Redpoint Labs team that houses both the DevOps and threat mitigation teams specializing in penetration testing, active ...
