Zero trust cybersecurity firm Xage Security received investment from Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and six other venture capital firms in a funding round that raised $20 million. The financing series, which has received a total of $80 million, will be used to advance Xage’s research and development initiatives and expan...

Lauren Knausenberger, former chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as an executive vice president and chief innovation officer. In this capacity, she will oversee SAIC’s innovation strategy and corporate strategy function and a...

Venice Goodwine, director of enterprise information technology at the Department of the Air Force for the past two years, has assumed new duties as DAF’s chief information officer, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. She succeeds three-time Wash100 winner Lauren Knausenberger, who stepped down in June after three years in the CIO post. Effe...

After a competitive four months and tens of thousands of votes, Executive Mosaic is excited to announce that the winner of the 2023 Wash100 popular vote competition is the resolute Department of Defense cornerstone, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. This year, a staggering nearly 40,000 votes were cast in support of the esteemed recipients of the 2...

The fateful day has come. The final 24 hours of voting for Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100 popular vote contest are here, after three full months of the most significant and consequential names in government contracting and the federal sector duking it out for the general public’s renown. Voting officially closes tomorrow, Friday April 28. ...

With only a week left in voting, there is officially no more time to procrastinate contributing to the 2023 Wash100 Award popular vote contest. When voting closes on Friday, April 28, submissions will be tabulated and the top 10 most beloved government contracting — and industry adjacent — executives will be decided. The Wash100 is a...

Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force, recently accepted her third Wash100 Award during a meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. In the award’s monumental 10th run, Knausenberger was selected for her dedication to bolstering DAF technological capabilities. Within the past year,...

With the increasing importance of technologies such as the cloud, zero trust architecture and artificial intelligence, the need for modernization has grown, and the U.S. military has made technology transformation a priority to keep up with the demands of the rapidly evolving warfighting landscape. To address these needs, Lauren Knausenberger, ...

The heightening peer and near-peer competition undoubtedly stands as the Department of Defense’s most critical priority today. Global powers like China and Russia have publicly demonstrated their advancements in weapons systems, next-generation technology and other crucial areas, and the United States is strategizing how to maintain its dominance ...

Changes in global activity and geopolitical developments in the last few years have catalyzed a heavy focus on near-peer competition within the Department of Defense. As the DOD shifts away from its primary focus for the last two decades, counterterrorism, and toward the escalating global competition, defense leaders are reshaping their priorities t...