Kaus Phaltankar, co-founder and CEO of Caveonix, said the lack of sensitivity towards data privacy and desensitization to the exploitation of personal data are some of the reasons why many consumers have become indifferent to the importance of safeguarding personal data.  Phaltankar wrote in an article published Friday on Intelligent CISO that social media companies […] More

David Egts is a lifelong engineer and software expert who has garnered accolades throughout his career, with significant stints at Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Silicon Graphics and Red Hat. He spent 15 years at the latter company, completing his tenure as its chief technologist and senior director of the North American public sector business. Egts came […] More

Pixxel has raised $36 million in a Series B funding round and will use the money to continue building hyperspectral satellites designed to collect Earth imagery. The financing event, which brings Pixxel’s total venture capital funds raised to $71 million, also supports the development of an artificial intelligence-based space data analytics platform, the company said […] More

Ventech Solutions CEO Tonia Bleecher is a government contracting veteran with a passion for working to improve the nation’s health care ecosystem. In 2018, Bleecher joined Ventech, a trusted partner to the public sector leading critical technology transformations that empower government agencies to meet their missions. She started as a senior vice president and swiftly […] More

Executive Mosaic has named Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, among its 2023 Wash100 Award recipients for spearheading efforts aimed at reducing risk and building resilience to cyber and physical threats to U.S. infrastructure. This marks the second year that Easterly was presented with the most prestigious award in all of the government […] More

Business development executive Bill Sullivan’s career began over two decades ago with IBM, and he has since held leadership positions with Oracle, Cloudera, and Amazon Web Services, among others. With his experience in strategy and development, he has worked to push organizations further into their target markets. In a recent interview with ExecutiveBiz, Sullivan, who now […] More

Bruce Feldman, senior vice president of business development with Science Applications International Corp., recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding his strategic goals for the coming year as well as the expansion of the company’s digital engineering work and its efforts to address the unique talent recruitment and retention challenges across the federal sector during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You […] More

Some of the biggest impediments to the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies across the Department of Defense are lack of trust in the technologies and resistance to them amongst the general public. According to William Streilein, chief technology officer at the Chief Digital and AI Office, these lingering doubts can be dissuaded through training and informational […] More

Valiant Integrated Services announced on Thursday that the company has been awarded a spot on a potential five-year, $1.31 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide sustainment services and training requirements in support of fielded training systems.  Under the Fielded Training Systems Support V IDIQ, Valiant will help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain training systems, including training […] More

SOSi announced on Tuesday that the industry leader in transformational technology solutions for the Department of Defense has received two new task orders worth $31.3 million through the $385 million Mission Partner Environment Network Engineering Services or MPE-ES contract provided by the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Information Systems Agency. “We’re proud to apply […] More

Allen Badeau, chief technology officer of Empower AI, has recommended four steps for government agencies to consider when laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence adoption as part of their information technology modernization plans. He wrote in an opinion piece for Federal News Network published Thursday that agencies must validate, clean and standardize data sources that […] More

Rikki Singh, an associate partner at McKinsey & Co., said the management consulting firm launched a program in May to train and upskill product managers through an eight-part speaker series featuring product leaders. She said there will be 3 to 5 million new program managers worldwide by 2025 and the company believes upskilling and empowering […] More