Digital twins – virtual models of real-world objects or other physical subjects – have significant potential to transform the future of warfighting, and the Department of Defense has taken notice. This technology allows users to “accelerate, model and put data in that model to see what will happen,” John Ustica, president and...
Dynetics, a Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) company, has received a potential $124.7 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide cyber electromagnetic activities support for the service branch’s missile and space program executive office. Dynetics will provide CEMA resiliency support to enable the Army’s air and missile defense weapon systems to counter ...
John Hillen, former CEO of government technology services contractor EverWatch and a GovCon industry veteran, has joined the advisory board of investment firm Enlightenment Capital. He will bring to the advisory board his decades of military, intelligence and national security experience and help explore new opportunities for the investment firm’s...
Adam Lurie, managing partner at Lurie Investments, was named CEO of Knexus Research, an artificial intelligence and machine learning company recently bought by the venture capital firm. The acquisition is aimed at advancing Knexus’ ability to meet increasing government customer demands for AI capabilities and to support business growth, the Na...
Peter Smith, former president and CEO of American Systems, has been elected chairman of the board of directors at the engineering and information technology contractor. Smith, who retired after more than four decades of company service, succeeds Bill Hoover, who has been chairman of the board since 2015, American Systems said Wednesday. “I wan...
Geoffrey Mattson, former senior vice president at LogRhythm, has joined Xage Security as CEO. Xage said Wednesday Mattson will take the helm of the cybersecurity software provider as it keeps up with the continuous growth in demand for its zero trust mesh platform, which pushed year-over-year revenue up by 420 percent in the first half...
Tim Ray, a retired U.S. Air Force general, officially began his work as president and CEO of the Business Executives for National Security on Sept. 1. The 36-year USAF veteran succeeds Joe Votel, a retired Army general who led the nonprofit organization for the past three years and seven months. “BENS is fortunate to have...
Lathan Turner, a more than two-decade military and business leader, has joined public-benefit software company Second Front Systems as executive vice president of global public sector. Turner will be responsible for managing Second Front’s business unit focused on serving U.S. and international government customers, driving revenue growth and ...
Dean Tilsley, a veteran finance executive, has joined Deltek as a senior vice president and chief financial officer. He will report directly to Deltek President and CEO Mike Corkery as he oversees the execution of the company’s financial strategy to advance growth initiatives, the company said Thursday. Corkery said Tilsley is a results-focuse...
Baris Yener, former senior vice president and chief growth officer at ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), has assumed the CGO position at Rockville, Maryland-headquartered consulting and research company Abt Associates. Yener will oversee strategic capture, business development and growth strategy, sales enablement, marketing and communications in his new capacity,...
