An independent company that will be formed once IBM (NYSE: IBM) spins off its managed infrastructure services business by the end of 2021 will operate under the name Kyndryl and will be based in New York City. “Kyndryl evokes the spirit of true partnership and growth,” Kyndryl CEO Martin Schroeter said in a statement published...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Anthony Robbins, federal vice president at NVIDIA, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for his leadership and significant contributions to the advancement and development of artificial intelligence capabilities and transformation in the federal sector. This marks Robbins’s fourth Wash100 Award in his c...
Jen Easterly, who served senior counterterrorism and cybersecurity role at the National Security Agency, is expected to be nominated by President Joe Biden as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency while Chris Inglis, former NSA deputy director, is likely to be the national cyber director nominee, The Wall Street Journal re...
Sandra Hinzman, senior vice president of contracts and property at Science Applications International Corp., will moderate a panel discussion at GovCon Wire’s upcoming Innovation and Modernization in Federal Acquisitions Forum scheduled for Thursday, April 15. Hinzman has worked for SAIC since 1992 and oversees contractual aspects of the compa...
Mike McKinney, former chief solutions officer at Sevatec, has been named vice president of strategic solutions at Vienna, Virginia-based information technology services provider Alpha Omega Integration, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday. He brings more than two decades of commercial and government technology experience to his new position. In his pre...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2021 — A solar electric propulsion system manufactured by Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) for NASA’s Psyche asteroid exploration mission arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in late March, ExecutiveBiz reported March 30. JPL said March 29 efforts are underway to assemble the spacecraft ...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is nearing a potential deal to acquire Burlington, Massachusetts-based artificial intelligence technology developer Nuance Communications (Nasdaq: NUAN) for $56 per share, or approximately $16 billion, Bloomberg reported Sunday. The estimated price of the transaction is a premium of 23 percent to Nuance’s Friday closin...
The Joint All Domain Operations (JADO) continues to help U.S. warfighters manage the modern battlefield’s information overload. JADO unites multiple defense systems and data sources to warfighters to provide combatants with comprehensive situational awareness. JADO enables warfighters to make quick decisions to dive into actions to achieve inf...
Neil Mitchill, formerly corporate vice president of financial planning and analysis and investor relations at Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has elevated to the role of chief financial officer of the aerospace and defense company. He succeeds Anthony “Toby” O’Brien, who held financial leadership roles for more than three decades at Raytheo...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for her data prioritization efforts and policy advancements, which will ready the federal defense sector for the future of warfare. This marks Hicks’ first Wash100 Award. Hicks, a former Department of Defense (DOD) official, was co...
