Just before the September 11, 2001 attacks, Bradford Powell joined U.S. Air Force ROTC at the University of Iowa because he wanted to actively serve the country after graduation, rather than sit idly behind a desk. As fate would have it though, post-9/11, he became an acquisition officer and ended up doing a fair amount...
A Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) subsidiary has secured a $114 million task order from the U.S. Army to enhance missile defense systems. The company said the award to Teledyne Brown Engineering was made by the Army Space and Missile Defense Command under the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration Domain 1 contract. Teledyne Brown Engi...
Matt Shaver, co-founder of BrainGu, has taken on the role of chief technology officer at the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based software development company. The company said Friday he will lead a team of engineers and drive BrainGu’s technical roadmap and vision as CTO. Shaver’s appointment comes after John “Spence” Spencer-Taylor, co...
Bob Ritchie is a fast learner. The technologist started at SAIC as an intern fresh out of a Virginia Tech computer engineering degree and only three years later was the chief software architect assisting the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, wherein he helped digitally transform preexisting Department of Defense tactical decision and command and control,...
Second Front Systems has appointed technology industry executive Josh Bosquez as chief technology officer and Jason Weiss, former chief software officer at the Department of Defense, as CTO for the public sector. The software company said Thursday Bosquez succeeds Enrique Oti, who will transition to the role of chief strategy officer to advance stra...
The U.S. Space Force’s innovation arm has selected nine small companies as contract awardees under the Program Year 2024.2 Strategic Funding Increase initiative to help move their defense technologies from the developmental phase to full production and deployment. The PY24.2 cohort for the SpaceWERX STRATFI program accounts for $146 million in...
Doug Steele, vice president of federal sales at Noname Security, said government agencies advancing digital transformation efforts should have complete visibility into their application programming interfaces to protect sensitive data from threat actors and other cyber vulnerabilities. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Steele wrote that comp...
The Intelligence Community is in the midst of a significant push to foster a collaborative spirit across its many components. Breaking down barriers between IC agencies and with other federal organizations is a top priority for the community, and many of its guiding strategies highlight partnerships as a means to achieve modernization goals. Along w...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has appointed senior finance executive Vincent O’Neill as chief financial officer and business development leader Timothy Last as executive vice president of sales and marketing, effective Jan. 1. The McLean, Virginia-based company said Wednesday O’Neill will succeed the retiring Thomas Fitzpatrick, ...
Ted Davis, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has been elevated to the role of president and general manager of Auterion Government Solutions, a robotics and autonomous systems software company. Auterion said Tuesday he served as vice president of government solutions before his promotion and will now succeed Errol Farr, who is taking an ad...
