The Senate voted 85-14 on Wednesday to pass a defense bill that would authorize $895.2 billion in fiscal year 2025 funding for national defense. The Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, would authorize $849.9 billion for the Department of Defense and $33.3 billion for the Department...
There are few people more qualified on the subject of wireless networking and communications than Dr. Thomas Rondeau. The highly knowledgeable, innovative official is currently steering research and development work on future generation, or FutureG, technologies at the Department of Defense as a principal director. He’s been at the DOD in var...
Today’s complex defense landscape is shaped by growing geopolitical tensions, the meteoric rise of advanced technologies and an intensifying global competition. In Executive Mosaic’s latest video interview, reporter Summer Myatt sat down with Judi Dotson, president of the global defense sector at Booz Allen Hamilton, to learn more abou...
By Alka Bhave, President of Fearless Digital The White House’s recent decision to remove unnecessary degree requirements from major federal IT contracts marks a pivotal shift in government technology. With GSA eliminating degree requirements for IT and cybersecurity jobs in its Polaris and Alliant 3 contracts, and the Departments of...
Gil Herrera is a versatile engineer with expertise in quantum physics, cyber systems, microelectronics and much more. He was a vital part of the team at Sandia National Laboratories, an organization devoted to nuclear science, for almost four decades. Three years ago, he came to the National Security Agency, a Department of Defense component in...
James Ebeler, former chief technology officer at Three Wire Systems, was named vice president of technology solutions at Emergent. In a LinkedIn post, the IT platforms and services provider announced that Ebeler and other talent joined the company following Mythics’ acquisition of Three Wire’s technology resale business and integration o...
At Fearless, a Baltimore-based digital services integrator, the power behind the tech they create comes from the people who build it. Fearless was founded in 2009, but the company hit a growth streak in 2022 after a strategic pivot towards digital services. Joe Paiva, the company’s COO, came to Fearless in March 2024 alongside Jacob Hsu,...
Kapil Wadhera has been at Intel for over 35 years and has gained a breadth of experience from across the company — from chip design to marketing, sales to general management. Given his wide-ranging expertise, he was an obvious choice to lead one of the key Intel Foundry efforts. This initiative was created in response...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International Earlier this Summer, the Department of Homeland Security, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, announced more than $18.2 million in Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program awards to assist tribal nations with managi...
The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Metris Global a potential five-year, $100 million contract to provide training, education and development program support to help meet the needs of its workforce and carry out its mission within the Department of Homeland Security. The company said Thursday the Training and Analysis Support Services contract will run...
