Holly Levanto, a certified project management professional, has taken on a new role as vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH). She announced the move in a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. Levanto most recently served as artificial intelligence adoption lead for Booz Allen’s chief technology team. In this capacity, she oversees effor...
Ten companies won spots on a $92.5 million blanket purchase agreement to provide strategic transformation and enterprise project support services to the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA received 14 bids for the five-year firm-fixed-price BPA and will fund the contract using fiscal 2024 through 2029 defense working capital funds and other budget allocat...
Executive Mosaic is excited to celebrate the impacts of the work of QinetiQ US CEO and President Shawn Purvis with the 2024 Wash100 Award. Purvis earns this designation due to her tireless efforts to bring innovative technology into the hands of American warfighters. Cast 10 votes today in the Wash100 popular contest! The competition closes on Ap...
Save the date — the Potomac Officers Club’s 9th Annual Army Summit is officially on the calendar for Thursday, June 13, 2024! The Honorable Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Sustainment and Logistics, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the event. Get your tickets early for the best rate — register here...
When most people think of generative artificial intelligence, these days they’re thinking of commercial large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude or Microsoft Copilot. But genAI, as it’s known, also has immense utility in the public sector space as a data organization tool and to automate certain customer experience pro...
Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS) has secured a potential five-year, $177.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support services for several combat vehicles. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covers support for Abrams M1 tank family of vehicles, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, M88 Recovery FoVs, Assault Breacher Vehicles and Joint Assault Bridges, the...
Recent momentum in artificial intelligence could be seen as a largely American enterprise, led by domestic companies such as OpenAI and federal government initiatives from the likes of the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office — not to mention multiple presidential executive orders on the matter. However, U.S. ...
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law an appropriations package that includes the $825 billion defense spending bill for fiscal year 2024. The consolidated appropriations measure would provide funding for federal agencies through the end of September, the White House said Saturday. Defense News reported the House passed the bipartisan pack...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index stayed flat despite negative returns in three of five sessions. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, hardly moved with a negligible $0.20 uptick week-on-week to $4,880.65. Meanwhile, the three major equities indexes booked weekly gains, resulting in Wall Street’s best...
Project Maven was launched in 2017 to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across the U.S. military. The initiative has made tremendous strides in its efforts to explore new AI technologies, and in November, it became a program of record at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Rachael Martin, director of NGA’s Maven Office a...
