Kieran McGrath, a more than 30-year technology industry veteran, has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer of Avaya (NYSE: AVYA) in a move that will take effect on Feb. 15. He will directly report to Avaya President and CEO Jim Chirico and oversee the tech firm™s financial planning, controller organization, tax, treasury...
Reginald Brothers, an executive vice president and chief technology officer of Peraton, said during a Government Matters interview aired Thursday that the pace of technology suggests that the Department of Defense needs more research-and-development funding in order to remain competitive. œThe challenge now is how fast technology is changi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 7, 2019 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) participated in an Office of Naval Research-facilitated extended testing activity to demonstrate the autonomy capabilities of the company’s Sea Hunter unmanned surface vessel, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Jan. 31 the Sea Hunter was able to navigate autonomous...
Stacey Dion, a managing director of The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG), has been promoted to global head of government affairs at the Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm. In her new role, she will work with the company’s senior executives and investment professionals in efforts to drive its legislative and regulatory efforts, Carlyle said W...
The Honorable Dr. John Hillen, formerly executive-in-residence and professor of practice at George Mason University’s School of Business, has been named CEO of Ashburn, Va.-based government technology services contractor EverWatch. “Looking at the technology solutions sector as both a corporate leader and a former government offi...
Davis Johnson, formerly senior vice president and head of public sector at Riverbed Technology, has joined San Jose, Calif.-based enterprise storage provider Cohesity as VP of federal business. Johnson said in a statement published Tuesday that he will work with the Cohesity team to advance the federal adoption of the company™s web-scale platfo...
Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, will continue to serve on the Professional Services Council™s board of directors for the second consecutive year. œPSC provides a forum for open dialogue between the public and private sector to address the needs of our nation, including critical national securit...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 30, 2018 ” Dan Tucker, vice president in charge of Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) digital platform capability team, has said federal agencies looking to transition workloads to the cloud must first ensure scalability and extensibility in their assessment of their data architecture, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. ...
Douglas Wiltsie, former director of the U.S. Army’s rapid capabilities office, has been named vice president of operations at Science Applications International Corp.™s (NYSE: SAIC) defense systems customer group. He will be responsible for executing programs, supporting business development efforts and managing key customer relation...
Eric Forseter, formerly vice president of North America sales and federal sector at Pindrop Security, has joined DataRobot as general manager of public sector. He will lead a team of data scientists and sales and marketing personnel at DataRobot™s office in Tysons, Va., to help government clients adopt automated machine learning platforms ...
