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  • Booz Allen Promotes 4 Industry Executives to New Leadership Roles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Promotes 4 Industry Executives to New Leadership Roles

    Booz Allen Hamilton has promoted Rebecca McCall, a 20-year company veteran, to senior vice president and named industry leaders Donald Polaski, Cora Murphy and Tucker Moore to VP roles. McCall, Polaski, Murphy and Moore announced their new positions at the McLean, Virginia-based technology consulting firm through separate LinkedIn posts published Tuesday. Rebecca McCall McCall has […] More

  • AutogenAI's Mitchell Sutika-Sipus: Tax Code Changes Needed to Advance AI R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AutogenAI’s Mitchell Sutika-Sipus: Tax Code Changes Needed to Advance AI R&D

    Mitchell Sutika-Sipus, chief solutions architect at AutogenAI, has called for changes to the U.S. tax code to support research and development work on large language models and other artificial intelligence tools. In a blog post published on AutogenAI’s website, Sutika-Sipus wrote that the Internal Revenue Service Tax Code 174 does not permit small companies to […] More

  • Leidos, Air Force Unveil IT Help Desk Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, Air Force Unveil IT Help Desk Facility

    Leidos and the U.S. Air Force’s 844th Communications Squadron have launched an IT help desk facility at the Pentagon to expedite the resolution of IT issues facing service personnel from days to minutes. Leidos said Wednesday the Fix IT Help Desk facility is manned by skilled IT professionals and seeks to address IT issues within […] More

  • IBM Consulting's Susan Wedge Accepts 2025 Wash100 Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Consulting’s Susan Wedge Accepts 2025 Wash100 Award

    Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson personally presented the 2025 Wash100 Award to Susan Wedge, managing partner for the U.S. federal market at IBM Consulting, during a recent meeting. Since 2014, the Wash100 Award has been celebrating the most significant and impactful executives in the government contracting sector. The winners of this elite award are recognized […] More

  • BlueHalo's Jonathan Moneymaker on 'Golden Dome' Next-Gen Missile Shield Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlueHalo’s Jonathan Moneymaker on ‘Golden Dome’ Next-Gen Missile Shield Project

    BlueHalo CEO Jonathan Moneymaker said in an interview that the Trump administration’s next-generation missile shield development project, called “Golden Dome for America,” could become a comprehensive threat response with support from defense technology and artificial intelligence industries, Business Insider reported Tuesday. “This will be clearly a collaborative effort across a lot of players,” Moneymaker, a […] More

  • Hitachi Vantara Federal's Mark Serway on Automation, AI-Driven Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Mark Serway on Automation, AI-Driven Analytics

    Mark Serway, president and CEO of Hitachi Vantara Federal and a previous Wash100 awardee, said federal agencies should adopt technologies that rely on modern data management platforms to reduce costs while ensuring the delivery of public services amid the budgetary pressure from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. In an article published Thursday in […] More

  • Raft's Shubhi Mishra: Excessive AI Regulation Could Slow Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raft’s Shubhi Mishra: Excessive AI Regulation Could Slow Innovation

    Shubhi Mishra, founder and CEO of defense technology company Raft and a two-time Wash100 awardee, discussed the need to promote innovation in artificial intelligence without implementing unnecessary regulations to enable the U.S. to better compete with China and ensure its leadership in AI. “It’s our job to ensure that American AI models don’t become the […] More

  • Equus Compute Solutions' Yazz Krdzalic on Innovation as a Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Equus Compute Solutions’ Yazz Krdzalic on Innovation as a Service

    Yazz Krdzalic, vice president of market development at Equus Compute Solutions, discussed the concept of innovation as a service during the Let’s Get Digital podcast and how the model could enable customers to focus on their operations and missions without worrying about the digital infrastructure. “Take whatever device you may need, whatever use case scenario deployment. … […] More

  • SAIC's Bob Ritchie on Mission Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC’s Bob Ritchie on Mission Integration

    Bob Ritchie, chief technology officer at SAIC, said during the Federal Tech Podcast that while systems integration deals with integrating cyberphysical systems, software and other technologies to achieve a better outcome, mission integration is focused on achieving mission outcomes by adapting to technological advancements and learning iteratively. “And the role of a mission integrator is to keep tabs […] More

  • Mick Fox: TechnoMile Analyzes DOGE’s Impact on Vendors Doing Contract Work With USAID - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mick Fox: TechnoMile Analyzes DOGE’s Impact on Vendors Doing Contract Work With USAID

    TechnoMile‘s research team has analyzed the impact of the Department of Government Efficiency’s recent activities on more than 500 federal contractors doing business with the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, using data from the company’s GovSearchAI platform. An executive order signed in January froze funding for USAID, pending a 90-day review. The Trump […] More

  • Guidehouse-AFERM Survey: Majority of Agency Professionals Cite Tech as Major Risk - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Guidehouse-AFERM Survey: Majority of Agency Professionals Cite Tech as Major Risk

    A survey by Guidehouse and the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management has found that 80 percent of federal government professionals said technology will pose major risks to their agencies within the next three years. The report titled Government Enterprise Risk Management Survey Results is based on a 2024 survey of federal government professionals at […] More

  • Tria, Shearwater Unveil Health IT-Focused Joint Venture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tria, Shearwater Unveil Health IT-Focused Joint Venture

    Tria Federal and Shearwater, a for-profit subsidiary of the Ho’oilina Foundation, have launched a new joint venture, called Olakino Solutions, focused on providing health IT platforms and services for federal government customers. “Olakino represents more than just a business venture – it’s a mission-driven collaboration that advances federal health initiatives while creating meaningful economic opportunities […] More