Danielle Metz has been appointed permanent deputy chief information officer for the information enterprise at the Department of Defense after more than three months in an acting capacity. She succeeded Peter Ranks, who stepped down in late November and returned to the intelligence community, and is responsible for overseeing enterprise infrastructur...
Relativity Space has received its first contract from the Department of Defense to deploy a small military satellite to orbit using the company’s 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket. The Defense Innovation Unit issued the award as part of the department’s Space Test Program Rapid Agile Launch Initiative, which seeks commercial low-Earth orbit pl...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) will develop 5G-enabled prototypes of virtual training and spectrum sharing systems for two military installations as part of a potential $600 million experimentation and testing program the Department of Defense announced in October 2020. The company said Thursday it plans to use its Digital Soldier augmented reality...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 12, 2021 — George Franz and Ian Fogarty, both managing directors within Accenture’s federal arm, outlined five principles they believe the Department of Defense can incorporate into an Agile product management framework to develop mission-critical systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The two AFS executives wrote in...
Marianne Bailey, former executive at the National Security Agency and the Department of Defense, has joined Cohesity as an adviser to help the San Jose, California-based company’s federal clients manage and secure their data. “Marianne’s vast experience in the intelligence and defense communities make her a perfect fit for Cohesity as we furth...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce that Stacy Cummings, acting undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense (DOD), has been awarded a 2021 Wash100 Award for driving modernization across acquisition, as well as implementing digital transformation initiatives to support the federal sector and its industry counterpar...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 4, 2021 — Eric Brown, vice president of Azure global mission platform engineering at Microsoft, outlined some of the company’s efforts to help the Department of Defense and industry partners accelerate mission workloads through its suite of cloud services intended for the public sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 24....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 1, 2021 — Anthony Robbins, president of Nvidia‘s (Nasdaq: NVDA) North American public sector business, pointed to predictive maintenance and humanitarian assistance as examples of artificial intelligence applications at the Department of Defense, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 17. Robbins, a 2021 Wash100 awardee, told Fe...
Carahsoft Technology has received a blanket purchase agreement under the Department of Defense’s Enterprise Software Initiative to provide government, defense and intelligence community customers with access to key software and information technology offerings. Carahsoft said Thursday the BPA comes as part of the company’s Federal Supply Sch...
The RAND Corp. will conduct policy research and analysis work for the Department of Defense’s acquisition and sustainment office under a potential five-year, $417 million contract from the Washington Headquarters Services. DOD said Friday the nonprofit think tank’s federally funded National Defense Research Institute will study policies ...
