Margaret Palmieri, founder and former director of the Navy’s digital warfare office, has been appointed deputy chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense. John Sherman, chief information officer at DOD and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, announced Palmieri’s appointment in a LinkedIn post published Friday. Palmie...
As the global geopolitical environment sees rapid developments unfolding, the United States is shoring up its defense and military capabilities to prepare for an array of potential scenarios in the face of budgetary and adversarial uncertainties. More than 20 of the Defense Department’s top leaders gathered on Wednesday during the McAleese FY2023...
Paul Harris, corporate vice president and chief compliance and privacy officer at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), is set to take on new responsibilities after his promotion as executive VP and chief sustainability and compliance officer. He will continue to lead HII’s compliance-related efforts while overseeing its environmental, so...
The U.S. government appears to be favoring the expansion of surveillance technology deployments along the border with the inclusion of funds for autonomous surveillance towers and other border security platforms in an omnibus budget package, The Washington Post reported Friday. On Thursday, Congress approved and sent to the White House a $1.5 trilli...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 14, 2022 — The U.S. Army has tapped BlueHalo to build an artificial intelligence/machine learning-based small unmanned aircraft system that could meet the service branch’s autonomous swarming capability requirement, ExecutiveBiz reported. Commenting on the initial $14 million contract award for HIVE sUAS architecture...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Raj Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, for the second consecutive year, as an inductee into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 — a group of highly esteemed leaders who continually drive growth and innovation in the government contracting sector. Iyer became the Army’s first civilian CIO in...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Melissa Carson, vice president and general manager at Iron Mountain Government Solutions, about the company’s strategic goals for 2022, recent growth initiatives, plans for expansion in new markets as well as the federal sector’s perceived improvements in artificia...
With just over six weeks left, voting for the Wash100 Award ranking of your 30 favorite executives continues to heat up. This week saw a series of decisive changes in the list, with a number of lucky individuals steadily making their way up the aggregated competition of executives in GovCon, government and industry. Your votes are...
Tim Kopra, a former NASA astronaut who became commander of the International Space Station, has joined the U.S. proxy organization of OneWeb to serve as president and drive its growth efforts. He most recently worked as the vice president for robotics and space operations of Canadian space technology firm MDA, OneWeb Technologies said Thursday. Kopr...
Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been elected to serve on Mitre’s board of trustees. Jason Providakes, president and CEO of Mitre and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said in a statement published Thursday Gordon’s expertise will help the nonprofit research company pursue innov...
