Ryan Higgins, formerly chief information security officer and deputy chief information officer at the Department of Commerce, has been named acting CIO and chief AI officer at DOC. The Federal CIO Council announced the move Wednesday on LinkedIn and said that Higgins has provided oversight of DOC’s enterprise cybersecurity functions and coordi...
Starlab Space, a joint venture of Voyager Space and Airbus, has named industry executive and former NASA astronaut Tim Kopra as CEO in a string of leadership appointments. Kopra, a U.S. Army veteran, will also serve on Starlab’s board of directors and bring to the role his experience in space exploration as he oversees the...
The Department of Commerce has formed a consortium comprising more than 200 artificial intelligence developers and researchers from government, industry and academia to help create standards for the development and use of trustworthy AI technologies. The U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium includes companies such as Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Amazon (Na...
Chris Jenkins, formerly chief administrative officer at Akima, has been named president of the construction and security solutions group at the Herndon, Virginia-based technology services contractor. He will drive efforts to grow and expand the company’s construction and security capabilities into new markets and customer base, Akima said Thur...
The Department of Homeland Security has started soliciting proposals for the third iteration of a program designed to enable DHS and its components to acquire professional services and other commercial offerings to meet their mission objectives. Proposals for the potential $8.4 billion Program Management, Administration, Clerical and Technical Servi...
The General Services Administration has released a solicitation for the potential five-year, $1.8 billion Personnel and Readiness Infrastructure Support Management contract that seeks to provide enterprise platforms and professional services to improve capabilities that will enable soldiers and strategic partners to enhance readiness and meet missio...
Ravindra Gupta, a program management executive with over three decades of industry experience, has been named senior vice president of the Health Care Program Management Office at Trilogy Federal. In this role, he will oversee PMO programs focused on the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration and the VA community....
Nikki Kodama has transitioned from vice president and B-2 program manager to VP of aerospace structures at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). She has been with the company for 22 years and will take over the main responsibility for products, systems and services relevant to aerospace intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, missile defense and electro...
According to Stephen Welby, deputy director for national security within the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Biden administration sees artificial intelligence as “one of the most powerful technologies of our time” and a major component of maintaining American leadership in the world. The White House has rec...
Julie Clark, a business development executive, has joined IPT Associates as vice president of business development and capture. She announced the move in a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. Clark previously served as senior VP of business development at BTAS, a woman-owned information technology services provider supporting defense and federal civi...
