Many technologists assert we are entering the Age of Artificial Intelligence and the U.S. government is taking steps to prepare for this revolution. President Biden issued the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence in late October and the Department of Defense has been working to ...
New York-based construction and development company Skanska has secured a $146.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to design and build a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility on Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. The Atlantic Marine Operations Center must accommodate four large vessels and feature a floating dock for sma...
Scott Rosebush, formerly vice president and general manager of secure systems at Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions segment, has been named president of Fuse Integration. He brings over two decades of aerospace and defense experience and will oversee the company’s day-to-day operations in his new role, Fuse Integration said Tuesda...
San Antonio-based Irys Technologies has acquired government information technology services contractor Diversified Technical Services Inc. for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to add defense industry customers and expand product offerings and market presence. DTSI provides software development, cybersecurity and related IT services to customers...
Capitol Meridian Partners has invested an undisclosed amount in Clarity Innovations, a Columbia, Maryland-based developer of data analytics software for national security applications. Clarity’s co-founders and management team will remain significant shareholders and continue to oversee the company as it seeks to support the government’s...
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 ...
