The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has appointed six government contracting industry executives to its board of directors to help oversee INSA’s business operations and strategic planning efforts. INSA Chairman Letitia Long said in a statement published Tuesday the six new directors’ experience and commitment to public-private partnerships will help the alliance respond to industry and develop […] More

Letitia Long, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has been named an independent director of Sonatype‘s board of directors. Sonatype said Tuesday Long will work with board representatives from the company’s lead investors that include Goldman Sachs, Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She held various civilian leadership positions during her more than 35-year […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has unveiled the list of officers and members who were elected to the association’s board of directors for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Maximus CEO Richard Montoni and Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of DXC Technology’s U.S. public sector, will respectively serve as chairman and vice chairman of NVTC […] More

LAUREN McGINLEY GENERAL COUNSEL & SECRETARY NOBLIS Lauren McGinley is General Counsel & Secretary of Noblis, a nonprofit science, technology, and strategy organization that helps clients solve complex scientific, systems, process, and infrastructure problems in ways that benefit the public. Mrs. McGinley has responsibility for all legal matters and corporate secretary duties within the Corporation […] More

The government contracting industry and its agency customers are both grappling with questions as to how they can keep pace with fast technology advancements as requirements and demands of users change with those trends. With the rapid development of new technologies, legal counsel is more important than ever. The general counsel executives in the government […] More

Elbit Systems has conducted initial tests of its torpedo launch system aboard the Seagull Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel platform, Maritime Executive reported Tuesday. Tests for the 40-foot self-navigating system were performed off Haifa to demonstrate the system’s capacity to launch a light torpedo munition without targeting. “The test highlighted Seagull’s unique capacity to detect and engage submarines,” said Ofer Ben-Dov, Elbit […] More

The government contracting industry and its agency customers are both grappling with questions as to how they can keep pace with fast technology advancements as requirements and demands of users change with those trends. Coupled with those changes is the work of both public and private sector organizations to hire qualified talent with skills and […] More

National Defense Energy & Environmental Alliance, a joint venture between Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Battelle, has been selected with three other contractors to support the National Defense Center for Energy and Environment. E2A will look to demonstrate, validate and transition technologies in an effort to assist Defense Department installations, ranges and weapon systems and work to meet the […] More

The Washington Post has selected several GovCon firms for recognition in the newspaper’s annual list of the 150 “Top Workplaces” in the greater Washington area. The Post chose the recipients based on overall employee perceptions of leadership quality, pay and benefits and work-life balance strategies at the organizations. Companies selected for the list were broken up into […] More

Industry analysts believe the Defense Department should ramp up its efforts in integrating biometrics technology with intelligence operations to keep pace with the rapid developments in the private sector, FCW reported Wednesday. Sean Lyngaas writes that DoD must explore commercial technology that would address concerns on the security and accuracy of information in its biometrics database. “[When] you think […] More

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has appointed executives from TASC, Noblis, CSC and PwC to its board of directors and executives from Boeing, The Carib Group and Northrop Grumman to its board of advisers. INSA said Friday it named TASC CEO John Hynes and PwC Partner Peter Seegers directors after their terms as advisers have expired, while the three new […] More

Roger Mason serves as senior vice president for national security and intelligence at Noblis and also oversees Noblis ESI, a wholly owned subsidiary. He was most recently the first assistant director of national intelligence for systems and resource analyses at ODNI where he advised senior leaders on critical intelligence decisions. He left his VP role at Noblis […] More