Mitre executives Wilson Wang and Jay Schnitzer have assumed senior vice president roles at the McLean, Virginia-based nonprofit research company. Wang will continue to serve as chief financial officer with oversight of the company’s financial analytics, enterprise accounting, contracts and pricing, financial planning and analysis and internal audi...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said agencies should reassess how they field and manage multicloud and hybrid information technology environments and one of the things they should consider is having a comprehensive, coherent security model that looks at the applications’ entire lifecyc...
Arlington Capital Partners has launched a defense electronics company after the Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm completed its purchase of two divisions that were formerly part of L3Harris Technologies‘ (NYSE: LHX) aviation systems segment. Arlington acquired the Electron Devices and Narda Microwave-West businesses to create Stellar ...
Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) has won a $125 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract renewal from the federal government to continue providing cyber training for joint military servicemen for five more years. The Melville, New York-headquartered communications company said Monday it already received the first delivery or...
Andrew Conn, an experienced federal health care executive who has been serving as interim president of Anthem‘s (NYSE: ANTM) federal business arm, will assume the position full-time after holding it temporarily for a month, FedHealthIT reported Friday. As president of Anthem Federal Government Services, Conn will continue managing profits and ...
Jason Weiss, a senior information technology modernization professional, has been appointed chief software officer at the Department of Defense, FedScoop reported Friday. He will lead efforts to modernize legacy applications and implement modern software development practices across DOD. Weiss joined the Pentagon in January as director of software m...
In August, the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate recently published a strategy to maximize technological opportunities from artificial intelligence and machine learning. “Through this strategy, S&T will build and apply expertise to help the department fulfill the game-changing promise of AI/ML techn...
Marion Kennedy, a more than 25-year federal government and industry leader, has joined LMI as vice president of intelligence market. Pete Pflugrath, senior VP of markets and growth at LMI, said in a statement published Thursday said Kennedy’s hands-on experience in growing intelligence-related businesses in the private sector and supporting the de...
NASA has awarded a pair of contracts worth $253.4 million combined to General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation subsidiary and MagniX USA to develop and demonstrate electrified propulsion systems intended for commercial aircraft. The two companies will participate in the Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration project within a five-year period, ...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has won a potential five-year, $275.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the design, development and testing of a maritime mine deployment system. The company will deliver a prototype of the Hammerhead system meant to detect and engage anti-submarine warfare targets, the Department of ...
