John Sherman, chief information officer for the Department of Defense (DOD), has been named a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, the most acclaimed award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership in multiple roles that are monumental to the implementation of the Pentagon’s cybersecurity and digital transformation strategies. Execut...
Eric Evans, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, has assumed chairmanship of the Defense Science Board. The Department of Defense said Monday Evans will lead the civilian group that advises Department of Defense leaders on matters related to science, technology, manufacturing and acquisition process. He has gaine...
Springfield, Virginia-based QualX Corp. has received a $95 million contract to provide information management and access support services to Washington Headquarters Services and other Department of Defense components. The company will perform contract work for 14 DOD agencies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and WHS directorates over a five-y...
Executive Mosaic has introduced Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient for her strategic vision to help maintain the U.S. military’s technological advantage and foster a strong partnership with industry to accelerate defense innovation. Shyu has been selected two ...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz sat with Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of defense systems business at Northrop Grumman as well as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, to talk about the company’s $1.4 billion contract with the U.S. Army for the Integrated Battle Command System and about the impact ...
Michael Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the Department of Defense should work with industry and academia to address the increasing challenges posed by cyber and asymmetric warfare. Brown wrote in a guest piece published Saturday on TechCrunch that DOD is advancing a technology modernization agenda...
John Sherman, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, will assume responsibility for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program from the office of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment as part of a realignment effort. “The CMMC team, led by Stacy Bostjanick, will b...
John Sherman, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, has been named acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer with oversight of DOD’s strategy and policy development efforts for data, AI and analytics. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote in a Tuesday memo that the office of ...
Data analytics and management company Visionist has received a prime contract worth $190 million to help the Department of Defense manage computer network operations. Visionist said Monday it will assemble an initial group of 60 professionals and services to provide a range of technical support services to DOD through the five-year, sole-source aw...
The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded Scale AI a $249 million blanket purchase agreement to develop platforms for testing machine learning, deep learning and neural network architectures. Scale AI said Monday it will make the company’s technology available to federal clients as JAIC’s governme...
