Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been elected to serve on Mitre’s board of trustees. Jason Providakes, president and CEO of Mitre and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said in a statement published Thursday Gordon’s expertise will help the nonprofit research company pursue innov...
Keith Johnson, a four-decade government market veteran and a former executive at Spire Global, has joined artificial intelligence software provider CrowdAI as strategic revenue officer. Johnson led the establishment of Spire Global’s (NYSE: SPIR) federal practice and helped the space company go public in August 2021, when it merged with specia...
Donny Dorsey, formerly a ship program manager at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has been appointed to serve as vice president of operations within the same unit. He will succeed George Jones, who is set to retire on April 1 after 37 years of career with HII, the military shipbuilder said Thursday....
The General Services Administration is soliciting input from industry as it plans to launch a follow-on acquisition for the Commercial Platforms program in accordance with a provision of the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which seeks to create an initiative to enable federal agencies to buy commercial items through e-commerce p...
The Senate on Thursday voted 68-31 to pass a $1.5 trillion budget package to fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2022, sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature, The Wall Street Journal reported. The omnibus package would provide $782 billion for the Department of Defense, which...
David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector organization, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. GovCon Expert David Egts provided a breakdown looking into the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has made on the digitization of federal agencies during his first fe...
President Joe Biden has instructed the U.S. government to assess the potential benefits and risks of establishing a central bank digital currency and address other issues amid the rise in the adoption of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. The executive order outlines a national policy for digital assets with the goal of protecting U.S. consu...
DC Capital Partners has acquired aerospace component manufacturer uAvionix for an undisclosed sum. Established in 2015, uAvionix provides small form factor communications, surveillance and navigation avionics for manned and unmanned aircraft systems and develops aviation safety systems to facilitate the integration of UAS into the National Airspace ...
ExecutiveBiz featured Ryan Legge, president of analytics at BigBear.ai, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He discussed the company’s artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, its efforts to drive data-driven decision-making structure at the U.S. Army as well as its support for customers in t...
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to replace a tactical ground-based radar system used to carry out airspace defense operations. USAF said Wednesday it will exercise an option of a previously awarded contract to procure the company’s AN/TPY-4(V)1 technology for the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar produc...
