TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 15, 2021 — Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) public sector business will help the Department of Labor enhance its data and voice network infrastructure by providing a range of services under five Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions task orders amounting to $877 million in total, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 28. DOL’s legacy infra...
James “Hondo” Geurts, former acquisition chief at the U.S. Navy and previous Wash100 awardee, has joined Sarcos Technology and Robotics (Nasdaq: STRC) as executive vice chairman. He will work with the leadership team to explore acquisition and business expansion opportunities and refine approaches to support customer requirements in the defense ...
Ben Palmer, who formerly led Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) mission systems business in Europe, will officially join Inmarsat on Nov. 8 to serve as president of the satellite communications provider’s maritime unit. He will succeed three-decade Inmarsat veteran Ronald Spithout and will bring 25 years of industry experience to his new pos...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. Previously, GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the major improvements that government contractors and their respective organizations have m...
Embedded Ventures has agreed to help the U.S. Space Force examine how venture capital investments can drive innovation in the space industry. The California-based VC firm said it signed a cooperative research and development agreement with USSF’s SpaceWERX organization as the military branch looks to pursue new space-based technologies through...
Kevin Iwersen, formerly the chief information officer of Idaho’s judicial branch, has been appointed to the same position at public sector software provider Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL). He will be part of Tyler’s corporate operations team and will succeed Matt Bieri, who is due to retire early next year, the company said Tuesday. In h...
Micro Focus Government Solutions’ (MFGS) Micro Focus Fortify software vulnerability analysis system has been approved by the Iron Bank and included in the U.S. Air Force-run Platform One (P1) as part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s DevSecOps initiative. MFGS’ Fortify leverages zero trust, automated testing and code scanning capabilities t...
The Space Development Agency has issued a draft request for proposals for a program to provide demonstration and experimentation capabilities for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System seeks to supplement the Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellite constell...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a contract from the U.S. Army to build five more Sentinel A4 radar systems intended for the detection and identification of multiple aerial threats. The company said Monday it projects the delivery of additional radars to occur over the next year for use in operational assessments at the...
Brian Thompson, formerly a senior vice president and operations manager of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been appointed VP and general manager of Peraton‘s intelligence mission solutions unit, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. He started his career at SAIC in 1994 and joined Leidos when the two organizations’ separation process...
