Sean Foster, former chief revenue officer at Forcepoint, has been appointed to the same position at IronNet Cybersecurity. IronNet said Wednesday Foster aims to drive IronNet’s sales, marketing, business development, customer management efforts intended to help customers adopt network threat detection platforms. He will report t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 20, 2019 — Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will collaborate with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to administer a competition for the development of mobile applications designed to address a need of the Department of Defense, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Innovative GEOINT A...
Emma Rich, formerly an executive at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined Hexagon US Federal as senior vice president of safety and infrastructure business unit. She will oversee efforts to broaden Hexagon™s presence in federal public safety and lifecycle markets as part of the senior leadership team, the company said Tuesday. Tammer Olib...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Rick Wagner, president of mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group at ManTech International, with his second consecutive 2019 Wash100 Award on Thursday. The Wash100 award, in its sixth annual year, recognizes the most influential and impactful executives in the GovCon industry, as...
GTY Technology Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: GTYH), a special purpose acquisition company founded by former Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and EMC executives, has wrapped up its purchase of six technology companies in a push to expand presence in the public sector market. The deals resulted in the formation of a new software company that consolidates Bonfire Intera...
On Wednesday, Feb. 13th, GovCon leaders from public and private sectors gathered at the Hilton in McLean, Va., for the Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Summit. Dana Deasy, the chief information officer for the Department of Defense and 2019 Wash100 award winner, delivered the event™s opening keynote address. The first p...
United Launch Alliance, the joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has won a potential $441.7M contract to help the U.S. Air Force send three national security satellites into space with the Atlas V rocket. The contracting division at the Space and Missile Systems Center’s launch systems enterprise direct...
SpaceX has won a potential $297M contract to send U.S. Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office satellites into orbit during the government’s 2021 fiscal year. The firm-fixed-price contract covers launch services and the production of associated vehicles to support the AFSPC-44 mission as well as the NROL-87 and NROL-85 missions, the Depar...
General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has received a potential seven-year, $99M contract from the Federal Aviation Administration to design, install and maintain FAA™s Data, Visualization, Analysis and Reporting System. The company said Tuesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a two-year base...
James Benton, interim chief information officer at PAE since August 2018, has been named permanent CIO of the Arlington, Va.-based government services contractor. Benton will continue to oversee PAE™s information technology field support operations, global service desk and cybersecurity initiatives, the company said Monday. He said he looks for...
