Robert Dapkiewicz, senior vice president and general manager of MetTel‘s federal business, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Tuesday. He discussed the company’s upcoming 25th anniversary and the last decade of growth in the federal sector, its efforts to differentiate itself in the current...
Sharon O’Malley Burg, a federal information technology industry veteran and business consultancy executive, has joined the board of advisers of Reston, Virginia-based IT systems integrator Intelligent Waves. O’Malley Burg brings three decades of industry experience to IW’s board and will support its growth and market expansion initiatives,...
The U.S. Army has issued a solicitation for a potential five-year, $1.49 billion contract to procure remote weapon systems mounted on mobile and stationary platforms. The RWS program will enable to service to continue to acquire spare parts, engineering, sustainment and product integration support to meet existing and future requirements of the Comm...
The U.S. Army has selected Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics subsidiary to develop prototypes of a platform meant to defend against unmanned aircraft systems and cruise missile threats, Defense News reported Tuesday. Defense News cited sources that say the service’s decision was based on a shoot-off for its enduring Indirect Fires Protection Capabil...
Two Six Technologies has purchased Trusted Concepts for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its talent base, software offerings and capabilities and broaden relationships with intelligence community clients. Herndon, Virginia-based Trusted Concepts operates with over 130 employees and has been providing software engineering, analytics, c...
JoAnne Dukeshire, a more than two-decade government contracting veteran, has joined ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) to serve as vice president of contracts, the company announced in a LinkedIn post. The executive brings experience in overseeing contracts and subcontracts professionals and advising government contractors across state and local, ...
Virgin Orbit and blank check company NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (Nasdaq: NGCA) have agreed to merge that would result in the satellite launch services provider becoming a publicly traded company with an enterprise value of approximately $3.2 billion. The boards of directors of Virgin Orbit and NextGen have cleared the transaction and both parties ...
Shawn Holtzclaw, a financial technology industry veteran, has been named president of Arlington, Virginia-based fintech company Consilient. He will help advance Consilient’s growth strategy as the company launches its federated machine learning platform Dozer to help financial institutions counter money laundering, fraud and other financial crimes...
Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the Department of Defense should continue its focus on intellectual property and security and address challenges related to those two factors to safeguard and further advance innovation. He...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 23, 2021 — Srini Iyer, a senior vice president and chief technology officer at ManTech (Nasdaq: MANT), said exploring emerging technology trends and applications could help vendors and their federal customers identify the best possible approaches to modernizing government health information systems, ExecutiveBiz reported ...
