Tony Scott, who served as federal chief information officer during the Obama administration, will take the helm of cybersecurity company Intrusion as president and CEO starting Monday. He most recently led The TonyScottGroup, a consulting firm he also established in 2017 to help clients manage their cybersecurity posture, Intrusion said Thursday. Du...
Amela Wilson, formerly a senior vice president and general manager at Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), has joined space services provider Nanoracks as CEO. Nanoracks said Thursday that Wilson succeeds Jeffrey Manber, who will continue to serve as the company’s board chairman and assume a new role as president of Voyager Space’s internatio...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has awarded five companies spots on a potential $8 billion contract to support military construction projects under the U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program. NAVFAC Pacific received six proposals for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and is ...
An Accenture (NYSE: ACN) subsidiary has won a seven-year, $618 million task order to modernize information technology systems for the U.S. Marshals Service, a law enforcement agency under the Department of Justice responsible for securing the federal judiciary. Accenture Federal Services will continue to update the agency’s case management pla...
Rick Sabol, a more than three-decade industry veteran, has joined VTG as a senior vice president with responsibility for programs supporting the U.S. Navy. He joins the Virginia-based naval engineering company after his previous role as SVP of operations at Science Applications International Corp.‘s (NYSE: SAIC) defense systems group, VTG said...
The Potomac Officers Club hosted the third installment of its Data-Driven 2021 Series, The Cost of AI, on Tuesday, which brought together public and private sector leaders to discuss how federal government agencies must plan for budget changes, potential technology disruptions and strategy shifts as they work to integrate innovative artificial inte...
Ammunition technology provider True Velocity has agreed to acquire LoneStar Future Weapons for approximately $84 million as both companies are pursuing the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons contract. True Velocity said Wednesday the deal would add LoneStar’s portfolio of weapons and projectile technology products to the acquirer̵...
Lisa Starkweather, formerly the director of programs at Cyber Defense Technologies, has joined Virginia-based security consulting firm Avint as chief operating officer. She will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Avint’s business that aims to help federal customers secure cyber and physical systems, the company said Wednesday. Sta...
Salient CRGT, which now operates as part of GovernmentCIO, has handed over to the U.S. Air Force Academy a multidomain laboratory meant to support training of cadets and enable them to lead operations across land, maritime, air, space and cyberspace domains. The laboratory has joint all-domain operations centers, remotely piloted aircraft flight roo...
ExecutiveBiz spoke with Mile Corrigan, senior vice president and corporate officer for Noblis, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. She discussed the launch of RunGrants platform for grants management, the efforts to modernize information technology and help clients centralize their cloud capabilities as well as tod...
