Executive Mosaic has elected Young Bang, U.S. Army principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, as one of its first-time winners of the Wash100 Award for 2024. The recognition underscores how his endorsement of artificial intelligence, automation and digital engineering supported the integration of cutting-edge tec...
Robert Hill, founder and CEO of Cyturus, highlighted the importance of complying with regulatory requirements like the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in order to ensure the security of every link in the supply chain and protect tiny subsystems in U.S. defense platforms from cyberthreat actors. In the...
President Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence was seen as a watershed, a ruling that acknowledged both the capacity for tremendous good and harmful risk inherent in AI technologies. It and its attendant guidance, issued by the Office of Management and Budget, se...
The Space Development Agency is single-mindedly focused on delivering space-based capabilities to the warfighter. It accomplishes this goal through a dual capability approach. The first capability is line of sight targeting, which is concerned with detecting, tracking and calculating a firing solution for targets like mobile missile launchers or shi...
Space is a rapidly evolving domain, and the federal government is looking to industry for modern technologies that could revolutionize related activities across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. To cultivate these important partnerships, it is important to send out “the right market signal,” Devin Brande, director of the C...
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to release a request for proposals for a recompete contract covering human resources information technology services for Customs and Border Protection. The recompete contract with an estimated value of over $100 million will cover technology architecture, development, implementation, governance, compli...
The U.S. Army is currently working to implement its Unified Data Reference Architecture, which is designed to join a data mesh and data fabric in a way that would allow users to easily access data products across different formats and locations. According to Deputy Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering and Software Jennifer Swanson, who sp...
Bob Hughes, most recently chief customer and strategy officer at UKG, has been appointed president and CEO of Deltek, succeeding Mike Corkery in a leadership move that is set to take effect April 10. Corkery, who has been at the helm of Deltek for more than a decade, will move to its parent company, Roper...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems division has received a pair of U.S. Air Force contracts worth $279.3 million combined to help sustain and enhance the U.S. Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System. The company will provide a trusted network environment with cross-domain collaboration and information-sharing capab...
Greg Dyer, formerly chief of strategy and president of government services at Aspetto, has been named chief operating officer at digital transformation company Accelera Solutions. He will oversee the delivery of cloud modernization, cybersecurity and digital transformation tools to Accelera’s government customers, including the Cybersecurity a...
