Daniel Wilbricht, general manager of Public Sector business with Devo, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about joining the company back in August, his strategic goals as well as how recent partnerships are driving innovation and new capabilities in the federal landscape during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. “I’m quite fond of saying work hard and you’ll be rewarded. Our culture […] More

David Ehrlich, who formerly managed digital platforms at Accenture‘s federal subsidiary, has been appointed vice president of growth solutions at McLean-Virginia-based information technology company CollabraLink. “As the federal government is on the cusp of a major digital transformation, CollabraLink has an opportunity to be an impactful partner and changemaker. I am excited to be a […] More

Gordian has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide construction cost data for the Department of Defense. The construction information technology company said Thursday the contract requires Gordian to input data collected from its RSMeans software to the military’s Tri-Service Automated Cost Engineering System in order to ensure more precise […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has named the participants of a new program that seeks to study concepts that would enable the identification of individuals from long distances and through atmospheric distortions. The Biometric Recognition and Identification at Altitude and Range program is aimed at providing defense and intelligence agencies with whole-body biometric technologies […] More

Executive Mosaic, a leading media and events company in the government contracting sector, announced the recipients of its 2022 Wash100 Award and is now accepting votes to determine the top 10 leaders among the selected individuals who drove innovation in the federal landscape and demonstrated the potential to impact the government and GovCon industry. Visit […] More

Susan Lawrence, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and a previous Wash100 Award winner, has been named the first female president and CEO of AFCEA International in a move that takes effect Jan. 1. She will succeed the retiring Robert “Bob” Shea, who will continue to serve as a permanent director on AFCEA’s board of […] More

Rich Sawchak, former chief financial officer at Novetta, has assumed the same position at Hypori, where he will be responsible for overseeing operations across finance, business, human resources, facilities management, recruiting and legal affairs for the Austin, Texas-based Software-as-a-Service provider. Hypori said Friday Sawchak brings to the company his extensive experience in areas of financial management, […] More

Tiffanny Gates, senior managing director and National Security Portfolio lead for Accenture Federal Services and three-time Wash100 Award winner, moderated a full expert panel on Wednesday during Baird’s 2021 Government & Defense Conference. Gates hosted the expert panel to discuss the challenges that the intelligence community faces as the U.S. continues to work to adapt to the […] More

Christopher Copeland, a managing director and chief technology officer at Accenture Federal Services, said one of the trends accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic is the emergence of democratized information technology, which is empowering federal employees to optimize their work and advance innovation. Copeland wrote in a guest piece published Tuesday on Government Executive that democratized […] More

The U.S. Postal Service has implemented an edge artificial intelligence system on the NVIDIA EGX platform to help speed up the process of identifying and tracking packages within hours instead of several days. The distributed edge AI platform, called the Edge Computing Infrastructure Program, emerged from a three-week sprint in 2019. During the sprint, a USPS data scientist and NVIDIA architects identified ways to accelerate the analysis of billions of images of packages each USPS center generates by designing deep learning models.

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The accreditation body of the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has formed the Industry Advisory Council that will be responsible for providing CMMC-AB and DOD with CMMC implementation feedback, input and recommendations on behalf of organizations seeking certification (OSCs).

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Executive Mosaic, a leadership media and events company in the government contracting space, has named the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award that seeks to highlight the contributions and efforts of the 100 private and public sector leaders in leading government contracting industry's growth and innovation. "We are thrilled to honor the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award," said Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic. “This is our eighth consecutive year recognizing the outstanding achievements of the most significant GovCon and federal executives in 2020 as well as the vision and success they will continue to bring in 2021 and beyond."

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