GovConWire's Government Contracting News 3/11/2022

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Raj Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, for the second consecutive year, as an inductee into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 —  a group of highly esteemed leaders who continually drive growth and innovation in the government contracting sector. Iyer became the Army’s first civilian CIO in November

The Senate on Thursday voted 68-31 to pass a $1.5 trillion budget package to fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2022, sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature, The Wall Street Journal reported. The omnibus package would provide $782 billion for the Department of Defense, which

With just over six weeks left, voting for the Wash100 Award ranking of your 30 favorite executives continues to heat up. This week saw a series of decisive changes in the list, with a number of lucky individuals steadily making their way up the aggregated competition of executives in GovCon, government and industry. Your votes are

Keith Johnson, a four-decade government market veteran and a former executive at Spire Global, has joined artificial intelligence software provider CrowdAI as strategic revenue officer. Johnson led the establishment of Spire Global’s (NYSE: SPIR) federal practice and helped the space company go public in August 2021, when it merged with special purpose acquisition company NavSight,

Donny Dorsey, formerly a ship program manager at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has been appointed to serve as vice president of operations within the same unit. He will succeed George Jones, who is set to retire on April 1 after 37 years of career with HII, the military shipbuilder said Thursday.

Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been elected to serve on Mitre’s board of trustees. Jason Providakes, president and CEO of Mitre and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said in a statement published Thursday Gordon’s expertise will help the nonprofit research company pursue innovation and integration

A Cognosante business unit has received a potential three-year, $26 million contract to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services handle inquiries from agency customers regarding the No Surprises Act. The company said Thursday its CognoConnected sector will perform multi-tiered help desk services to address calls and online queries related to federal law that

Randy “RJ” Kolton, a more than 23-year government market veteran, has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology services provider HarmonyTech. The retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel will be responsible for overseeing HarmonyTech’s corporate operations, growth strategies and business development functions, the company said Thursday. He most recently

In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Melissa Carson, vice president and general manager at Iron Mountain Government Solutions, about the company’s strategic goals for 2022, recent growth initiatives, plans for expansion in new markets as well as the federal sector’s perceived improvements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, 5G, cybersecurity and other

Executive Mosaic has featured Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Jim Taiclet in the 2022 Wash100 class for his strategic vision in the aerospace and defense technology area. Taiclet has been selected two consecutive times to the annual list of leaders who continually drive growth and innovation in the government contracting sector. He succeeded Marillyn