TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 18, 2019 — Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) hired Teresa Shea, formerly executive vice president of technology at In-Q-Tel, to serve as VP of cyber warfare and mission innovations and lead a newly integrated business area within its intelligence, information and services business unit, GovCon Wire reported April 5. Shea’s new role puts […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Michael Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, was selected to the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his commitment to advance U.S. space programs and the country’s energy weapon systems. This latest honor marks Griffin’s second consecutive win.

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GitLab has launched a sign-on automation service to support common access card authentication. The service is made to reduce time spent on logging into GitLab's issue tracker, and help users develop and deliver security-set software at faster rates, the company said Tuesday.

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Mark Frantz, co-founder of BlueDelta Capital Partners, and Joseph Dyer, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, have been named advisers to ASGN’s board of directors. Frantz and Dyer will share with the company’s board their knowledge and insights gained through their government contracting experience, ASGN said Tuesday. ASGN CEO Peter Dameris said the firm will […] More

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch and Tim Conway, president of NTT Data’s public sector business, have been appointed to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors for fiscal year 2018-2019. Desch is one of the eight executives appointed by Rich Montoni, NVTC board chairman and vice chairman at Maximus, to the trade association’s board, […] More

Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel‘s public sector in the Americas, will serve as a panelist at the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Titans event on Jan. 31 at The Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Greer and his co-panelist John Kaufhold, CEO of data analytics company Deep Learning Analytics, will discuss how deep learning technologies can […] More

Primer has entered a strategic investment agreement with In-Q-Tel as both companies aim to provide artificial intelligence tools to government analysts. In-Q-Tel said Tuesday Primer develops machine learning systems designed to help analysts from government agencies, financial institutions and retail companies address the limits of human comprehension when analyzing large volumes of information. The systems […] More

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has appointed Michael Griffin, chairman and CEO of Schafer Corp., as well as military veterans John Allen and Samuel Locklear as APL senior fellows. APL said Tuesday Allen, Griffin and Locklear bring leadership and expertise to the lab’s senior fellows program that seeks to address the priorities of U.S. military leaders and senior […] More

D-Wave Systems will unveil additional details of its latest quantum computing platform that features a new 2000-qubit processor at an inaugural users group conference Wednesday and Thursday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. D-Wave said Tuesday the processor has doubled the amount of qubits from the previous D-Wave 2X system and introduces control features that work to configure the quantum computational process. Jeremy […] More

Orbital Insight has raised $20 million in total funds for the development of algorithms that work to analyze satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle-based imagery in order to generate data-driven insights for use in decision making. The Palo Alto, California-based company secured $15 million in a GV-led funding round and another $5 million through a development […] More

Security collaboration platform BlueLine Grid has received an additional round of investment funds from equity firm Bold Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. BlueLine Grid said Friday the funding from Bold Capital Partners follows investments from Motorola Solutions in December 2015 and intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel in May 2015. Double M Partners has also made an investment in BlueLine Grid within the […] More

HyTrust has formed an advisory group to support the company’s efforts to accelerate adoption of cloud security and virtualization technologies in the federal sector. The company’s federal advisory board comprises eight executives who have worked at civilian or defense agencies and companies that serve government clients, HyTrust said Thursday. “HyTrust is truly fortunate to attract such an experienced group […] More