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oversees day-to-day content production for ExecutiveBiz, a publication under Executive Mosaic's media group covering government contracting industry news. She also writes about executive movements and commentaries, M&A activities, contract awards and technology and service offerings of medium-sized businesses and other GovCon companies. Prior to assuming her current responsibilities with EBiz, Thropp produced daily competitive intelligence briefings for the company's GovCon customers.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 12, 2020 — Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and four-time Wash100 awardee, recently announced the appointment of Jon Love, former head of public sector partner development at Microsoft, as the space technology company's VP of strategic growth, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 4.
David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, has offered three recommendations for state and local government agencies to strengthen cybersecurity posture amid the increasing risk of ransomware attacks.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 10, 2020 — MetTel will provide the State Department with a fully managed layer 3 Multiprotocol Label Switching network, Internet Protocol Service and Ethernet Transport Service under a potential 13-year, $711M task order as part of the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 27.
More government agencies have increased their use of cloud access security brokers, which offer an added protection layer between end users and providers, in an effort to help federal employees protect data while working remotely, FedTech Magazine reported Thursday.
The current state and future potential of emerging technologies were the focal points of an expert panel at ArchIntel's AI in Competitive Intelligence Virtual Event. The panelists were Suki Fuller of The Council of Competitive Intelligence Fellows; Fred Hoffman of Mercyhurst University; and Arik Johnson of Aurora Worldwide Development Corp. The moderator was August Jackson, senior director of market and competitive intelligence at Deltek.
Marc Mancher, a principal at Deloitte Consulting, and Alan Balutis, a senior director of North American public sector at Cisco Systems’ business solutions group, have said that agencies should integrate artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies with digital call centers to continuously deliver information and services to the public during the coronavirus pandemic or national emergencies.
David Barber, vice president of business development at Science Applications International Corp., said video conferencing technology and other virtual communication tools can help an incumbent contractor transfer knowledge to an incoming vendor when they undertake a contract transition phase during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cubic's Nuvotronics subsidiary plans to add a 14-inch substrate carrier line within its manufacturing facility in Durham, North Carolina, in anticipation of increased demand for millimeter-wave technology across the defense, space and commercial sectors.
JBS Solutions, an 8(a) certified small business, will support Jacobs in engineering and scientific work at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, under a mentor-protege agreement between the two companies.
