After recent cryptocurrency-related developments across the federal landscape, including the Federal Reserve’s white paper on central bank digital currencies and President Biden’s executive order on the responsible development of digital assets, the U.S. has “crossed the Rubicon of legitimacy” into the crypto economy. Juan Zarate, global c...
Taimeka Hollis, formerly chief operating officer at Illuminate, has elevated to the role of president at the Herndon, Virginia-based analytics company. She brings to the role over 20 years of leadership experience in business development, strategy, engineering and operations, Illuminate said Tuesday. Prior to Illuminate, Hollis spent 17 years at Nor...
Jason Grogg, an information technology market veteran, has been appointed vice president of the federal health growth accelerator group at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), according to his recent LinkedIn post. He first joined the company in May 2017 as a principal in charge of business development efforts for the Department of Veterans Affairs port...
Ryan Hinkle, a government technology market veteran, has been named director of federal sales at Hitachi Vantara’s wholly owned subsidiary located in Reston, Virginia. He will responsible for developing and strengthening Hitachi Vantara Federal‘s business relationships across the public sector, the company said Tuesday. In his new capaci...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, with his 2022 Wash100 Award during a recent visit to the company to recognize Brady’s contributions to the government contracting (GovCon) community as an elite federal leader. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for Chris Brady as one of y...
Chris Pehrson, formerly an executive at General Atomics, has been appointed chief growth officer of defense technology company Parry Labs. He will be responsible for driving growth initiatives through business capture, program growth and strategic planning efforts in his new position, Parry Labs said Monday. Parry Labs CEO John Parkes said Pehrson...
Patrick Sargent, a government health services veteran and retired Army major general, has joined Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s federal business, according to a LinkedIn post. The retired Army major general joins Cerner Government Services from OptumServe, where he most recently served as SV...
The Department of Defense is working to overcome international policy-related hurdles, data tagging challenges and training obstacles as it looks to build resilient mission partner environments and implement JADC2 on an enterprise level. These issues are becoming increasingly more urgent today as the tense geopolitical landscape continues to change,...
Anthony Lisuzzo, a former member of the federal government’s Senior Executive Service, has been appointed president and chief operation officer at Ironwave Technologies. Lisuzzo has more than 35 years of industry and government experience and will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Ironwave, the company said Friday. His appointmen...
The U.S. Army has awarded 26 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $869 million contract to provide research, development and engineering support services to the service branch. The firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-incentive fee contract also covers test and evaluation, support for biological and chemical demilitarization operations and acquisition...
