Lee Payne, a three-decade Department of Defense civilian and military service veteran, has been named a specialist executive of Deloitte Consulting‘s government and public service business. The retired U.S. Air Force major general joins the professional services company after his stint as lead for the diagnostics and testing line of effort for...
Momentus has appointed John Rood, former undersecretary of the Department of Defense for policy, to serve as its CEO starting Aug. 1, ahead of its planned merger with Stable Road Acquisition Corp. Rood will take over from Dawn Harms, who will return to her duties as chief revenue officer after temporarily holding the top executive...
Alan Shaffer, former deputy undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, has joined the government security committee of semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries. He joins a panel that advises the Malta, New York-based company’s management team on government, political affairs and security matters,...
The U.S. Army has released a solicitation for administration and maintenance services in support of supercomputers at several Department of Defense centers that provide hardware, software, data storage and other resources to a High Performance Computing computational environment. According to the SAM.gov notice posted Thursday, the Army Corps of Eng...
A Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) business unit has won a potential $75.8 million Commercial Ethernet Gateway Region 6 contract to help Department of Defense mission partners connect to DOD’s global military information network. Comcast’s government services group will replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits with new ethernet connections in t...
John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said the recently announced replacement to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contracting program is planned to leverage direct awards to multiple vendors of enterprise cloud services, DOD News reported Wednesday. The initial awards under the Joint Warfightin...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the meetings of President Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, reported that ...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, reported on Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks speaking about the Department of Defense’s move to create a Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve to facilitate joint warfighting concept development competition across service branches. McAleese’s new rep...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Data Innovation Forum on Tuesday featuring David Spirk, chief data officer for the Department of Defense (DOD) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, as the keynote speaker. Tuesday’s Forum explored the federal government’s modernization data strategy, innovation in the artificial intelligence and machine learning data...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — David Appel, vice president of command and control data solutions at Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTN) intelligence and space business, said an open systems architecture has the potential to speed up data processing for the Department of Defense’s signals intelligence mission, ExecutiveBiz reported J...
