Jay Jones, president of HighPoint Digital, has been promoted to CEO at the Indianapolis, Idiana-headquartered government information technology services provider. “His promotion is a reflection of his unwavering commitment and the trust we place in his vision for HighPoint Digital’s future,” said Ben Lanius, chairman and founder of...
John Nichols, a 25-year aerospace industry veteran, has joined Fornax Advanced Materials as vice president and chief scientist. In a LinkedIn post published Friday, the Chicago-based company said Nichols brings over two decades of experience supporting major satellite development efforts for NASA and the Department of Defense to his position. Nichol...
The Department of Homeland Security has established the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board responsible for providing advice about AI technology’s safe and secure development and deployment in U.S. critical infrastructure. The board consists of more than 20 technology and critical infrastructure executives, including Wash100 awar...
Chris Fall, vice president for applied science at Mitre, has been appointed to the board of directors at Arlington, Virginia-headquartered nonprofit cybersecurity organization CRDF Global. Mike Dignam, CEO of CRDF Global, said in a statement published Monday that Fall’s experience in science, technology and energy domains “brings enormou...
Fusion Technology has secured a five-year, $159.8 million contract to help the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division adopt Scaled Agile Framework practices and methodologies to support the development of its mission-critical systems. The company said Thursday it will provide a team of Agile practitioners who will define, build a...
In a meeting last week at Enlightenment Capital’s Chevy Case, Maryland headquarters, Jason Rigoli, a partner at the firm, received his first Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO and award founder Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award is a yearly coronation of the finest executives shaping the government contracting sector. It commends leaders ...
When Jen Sovada realized she could make more of an impact on the outside of the military looking in, she retired from the U.S. Air Force. Now, her company, the fast-growing startup SandboxAQ, regularly does business with the USAF and Sovada still gets to support the mission, circumnavigating the oft-labyrinthine bureaucracy of the government. Sovada...
Like many government agencies, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection manages petabytes of data flowing through it every day. They perform an estimated 50 billion data exchanges and 10 billion transactions daily. This also means there are roughly 100 million cyber attack attempts per day on their network, accordin...
Artificial intelligence has presented the U.S. Department of Energy with an opportunity to revolutionize the way it carries out its mission. Ann Dunkin, chief information officer of the DOE, has identified the analysis of climate-focused technologies like solar panels as just one potential benefit. Though new AI technologies could be groundbreaking...
Scott Alexander, formerly a vice president at RTX (NYSE: RTX) business Raytheon has been named president of missile solutions at Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) subsidiary, according to his LinkedIn post. Alexander joined the L3Harris subsidiary after serving as VP of integrated missile defense solutions at Raytheon since Ju...
