Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, issued a memorandum that seeks to ensure U.S. competitive advantage by turning DOD into a data-centric organization, DOD News reported Monday. The May 5 memo with the subject Creating Data Advantage calls for the Pentagon to implement five data decrees,...
Carmen Santos-Logan, former deputy director of cybersecurity architecture and capability oversight at the Department of Defense, has joined Millennium as vice president of business development. Santos-Logan will oversee the Arlington, Virginia-based company’s business growth and development, capture and proposal functions, Millennium said Tues...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 3, 2021 — Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said the company seeks to develop and optimize devices that could help the Department of Defense manage cloud data processing work in austere operational environments, ExecutiveBiz reported April 15. C4SIRNET reported April 14 that DODR...
President Joe Biden has nominated Heidi Shyu, who was the U.S. Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology from 2012 to 2016, to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering. Shyu serves on the boards of multiple technology and investment companies, such as Auterion Government Sol...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 28, 2021 — LMI will continue to help the Department of Defense manage technology acquisition partnership efforts with U.S. allies in the areas of electronic warfare, weapons and airborne systems, ExecutiveBiz reported April 13. “International partnerships are key to realizing the National Defense Strategy,” said Ro...
The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.K. government are working out the details of an approximately $2 billion foreign military sales agreement for extended-range Chinook multimission helicopters, manufactured by Boeing (NYSE: BA), Bloomberg reported Tuesday. U.K. indicated its intent to buy 14 new H-47(ER) units in a letter of offer and acceptan...
Terence Emmert, acting deputy undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, was selected by Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, as a recipient of a 2021 Wash100 Award for the first time in his long federal ca...
AAR (NYSE: AIR) has appointed Ellen Lord, former undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, to the aviation services provider’s board of directors. Lord, a four-time recipient of the Wash100 Award, oversaw the Pentagon’s contracting, procurement, developmental testing, logistics and materiel-related func...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to announce that Dave Spirk, chief data officer for Department of Defense (DOD), has been named a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for leading DOD’s new data strategy, advancing the department’s principles to adapt its data culture to support U.S. warfighters and military capabilities. With this honor, Spirk has r...
Barbara McQuiston, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said the Department of Defense has established a steering group focused on innovation, Nextgov reported Tuesday. “We’re very lucky we just started the innovation steering group under Deputy Secretary [Kathleen] Hicks, and what we...
