PredaSAR Corporation has appointed David Mann, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, as vice president of strategy, Army systems and defense programs tasked to support Army, Department of Defense and other government customers. “We are excited to welcome Lt. Gen. Mann, another trusted and highly respected senior leader to join our growing company,” said PredaSAR Executive Chairman Marc Bell. 

Octo Consulting and Indica Labs have partnered to launch the online COVID Digital Pathology Repository, a virtual collection of high resolution microscopic COVID-related human tissue images hosted at the National Institutes of Health, Octo announced on Thursday.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Christopher Kubasik, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for his leadership during the merger of L3 Technologies and the Harris Corporation in 2019 as well as his efforts to advance military capabilities for the U.S. 

Shawn Purvis, corporate vice president and president of enterprise services at Northrop Grumman, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the specific challenges that are facing the aerospace and defense industries and how enterprise services will enable Northrop to overcome them.

Phoenix Oversight Group, a consulting firm specializing in mortgage technology, has received Accenture’s recognition as small business of the year for 2019.

CNSI announced on Wednesday it named David Adams, former chief financial officer of Endeavor Robotics, as executive vice president and CFO.

Mercury Systems announced on Wednesday that William Conley will join the company as chief technology officer, effective Sept. 30. Conley will direct and accelerate Mercury’s vision and leadership in innovative technology for the aerospace and defense industries.

Raytheon has formed partnerships with defense firms to develop new offerings focused on next-generation ground vehicles, munition systems and avionics platforms.

Raytheon’s air soldier team is working with Pivotal Software and using DevOps and Agile processes to speed up the development of military software at the company’s Indianapolis-based facility.

Spatial Integrated Systems will continue efforts to develop a heterogeneous swarm of unmanned surface vehices in partnership with the Office of Naval Research. The company said Monday it aims to demonstrate small and very small USVs in the eight-unit swarm through the program.

Executive Mosaic is glad to unveil Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading the company's efforts to help federal clients modernize IT infrastructure, improve cybersecurity posture and transition to cloud-based platforms.