The Department of Homeland Security has established the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board responsible for providing advice about AI technology’s safe and secure development and deployment in U.S. critical infrastructure. The board consists of more than 20 technology and critical infrastructure executives, including Wash100 awar...
Kristen McLeod, most recently senior vice president of finance and accounting and controller at Calibre Systems, has assumed the roles of executive VP and chief financial officer at the Alexandria, Virginia-based management consulting and digital transformation company. In this capacity, she will serve as a corporate officer and fiscal strategist an...
Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, accordin...
Sebastian Sobolev, a cybersecurity and data analytics professional, has been appointed vice president of product at New York-based cloud-native cyber defense platforms provider BlueVoyant. He announced his new position in a LinkedIn post published Thursday. Prior to his current position, Sobolev was chief technology officer at BlueVoyant’s governm...
Mike Page, a more than two-decade federal market executive and a retired U.S. Army major, has joined Arlington, Virginia-based government information technology services provider Tsymmetry as vice president of business development. He announced his appointment in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. Prior to Tsymmetry, Page was executive director lead...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will help the U.S. Army sustain and upgrade its command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance hardware systems under a potential $267 million follow-on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services task order covers hardware sust...
Elizabeth Larson, a more than two-decade Siemens veteran, has taken on the chief financial officer role at the company’s federally focused U.S. arm. She will manage the overall financial and accounting functions supporting Siemens Government Technologies‘ technology and service teams delivering mission-critical products and services to U...
George Wilson and Tom Weston, former executives of ECS Federal, have partnered with private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners to invest and build a company dedicated to providing mission-critical technologies for federal government customers. Wilson and Weston intend to grow a company that offers technology products and capabilities to custo...
Mark D’Alessandro, a strategic information technology executive who previously served as a Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) vice president, was named chief technology officer at Four Points Technology, according to his LinkedIn announcement. He brings to the IT-focused, service disabled veteran owned small business nearly three decades of experi...
Thunderdome is a new, modernized cybersecurity and technology architecture for the Department of Defense, spearheaded by the Defense Information Systems Agency. It is part of the Pentagon’s official zero trust strategy, as mandated by President Biden’s Executive Order and concretized in the DOD’s Nov. 2022 zero trust strategy. Thunderdome gai...
