Michael Foster, former head of solutions engineering at CrowdAI, was appointed as chief data officer of the U.S. Central Command. The military branch is banking on Foster’s expertise in artificial intelligence model development, big data management and spatio-temporal analytics to reach its goal of becoming a data-centric organization, CENTCOM...
Jennifer Doherty was elevated to the roles of vice president, chief security officer and chief information officer at Draper, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nonprofit research and development organization, according to her LinkedIn post. She has been with Draper for over six years, taking on various positions of increasing responsibilities. The ex...
Jill Bone, formerly senior vice president of talent at Alteryx, has been promoted to chief people officer at the Irvine, California-based data analytics automation software company, according to a recently published LinkedIn post. Bone joined Alteryx in 2020 and has since built and led a team of HR professionals supporting the company’s talent...
Three companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $125 million small business set-aside contract to provide cybersecurity and privacy support services to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A notice posted Friday on SAM.gov states that NIST has selected Analygence, CyberESI and Electrosoft as contractors of the CAPSS indefinit...
Beacon Global Strategies has appointed intelligence and defense industry veterans Andrew Boyd, Seth Jones and Elizabeth Sizeland as senior advisers and named Leyla Becker, formerly director of human resources at Tripoint Solutions, as chief human resources officer. Boyd, a former senior intelligence service officer in the CIA’s Directorate of ...
In October, the Department of Defense announced its intent to publish its first National Defense Industrial Strategy to lay out its plans for investment in the defense industrial base. According to Laura-Taylor Kale, assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy, the strategy will center five key areas: creating resilient ...
Supercomputing provider PsiQuantum created its first-ever government advisory board to keep abreast of the latest quantum technologies and developments applicable to the sector. The new board includes Wash100 awardees Robert Sharp, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and Michele Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense ...
Chantilly, Virginia-based government technology company Arcfield has finalized its purchase of Orion Space Solutions as part of efforts to expand its space exploration and hypersonic detection and tracking capabilities in support of intelligence community and Department of Defense agency customers. Established in 2005, Colorado-based Orion is focuse...
LightRidge Solutions has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of technology leaders Skip Williams and Jim Congdon as chief technology officer and chief software officer, respectively. The portfolio company of private equity firm ATL Partners was established in March to design, develop and deliver small space and airborne sensors and pay...
Funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners have bought T2S Solutions, a provider of research and development, prototyping, engineering, integration and technology products in support of defense, intelligence and government programs. Tim Jahnigen, co-founder and chief growth officer of T2S, said in a statement published Wednesday, “With MD...
