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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
David Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector organization at Red Hat, recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview to share his views on how federal agencies can transform service delivery and customer experience. He pointed to what the administration calls a “time tax” as a major force that impedes organizational efficiency and […] More
The Government Accountability Office has denied General Dynamics’ protest of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s potential 10-year, $11.5 billion contract awarded in February to Leidos, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. Gerry Fasano, president of Leidos’ defense group and a three-time Wash100 winner, said the company could move forward with contract initiation meetings and review efforts for […] More
The Cadmus Group has appointed federal market veterans Vince Bonifera, Bob Brown and Barbara Eberhard to serve as directors within the consulting firm’s public sector business. Bonifera, a more-than-16-year Booz Allen Hamilton veteran, will be responsible for helping grow Cadmus’ work at federal, state and local government agencies as business development director, Cadmus said Thursday. […] More
Keith Cooperman, vice president of business development at Millennium, recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview to discuss the company’s focus areas and potential opportunities to grow its cybersecurity work outside of the Department of Defense. Cooperman joined the Arlington, Virginia-based company in April and oversees growth, business development, capture and proposal functions in his […] More
Peter Schumacher, a partner at private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, has been appointed to serve as CEO of Firefly Aerospace on an interim basis. He replaces Tom Markusic, who has transitioned from the chief executive role to full-time member of the board of directors and chief technical adviser at Firefly, the company said Wednesday. […] More
A new SolarWinds report indicates that three-quarters of government information technology professionals surveyed within the U.S. and Canada are looking to adopt hybrid IT strategies over the next three years. The software company said Tuesday that the SolarWinds IT Trends Report’s public sector segment covered responses from 79 North America-based tech specialists and aimed to determine how their departments […] More
A Raytheon Technologies business tested an approach for direct communications between machines as part of a risk reduction effort before taking part in the U.S. military’s capability experimentation across multidomain training scenarios. Raytheon Intelligence & Space conducted its machine-to-machine communications demonstration ahead of the unit’s scheduled participation in the biennial Valiant Shield exercise, the company […] More
CivicPlus, a citizen engagement software provider to local government customers, has completed its acquisition of digital communications technology company Optimere. The deal was first announced in May and Kansas-based CivicPlus said Friday that private equity firm Insight Partners backed the transaction with an additional investment. Brian Rempe, CEO of CivicPlus, said the company aims to […] More
Wes Kremer, president of the missiles and defense unit at Raytheon Technologies, said air-breathing scramjet technology offers a low-cost approach to power hypersonic weapons. A scramjet engine uses the air around it to generate propulsion and relies on high speed to sustain flight operation, the company said Monday. Kremer cited Raytheon’s work with Northrop Grumman […] More
SRI International has received a $300,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to examine supply chain challenges and investment opportunities for the quantum manufacturing industry. The nonprofit research organization intends to work with companies, academic institutions and national laboratories to determine what forces can affect advancements in quantum hardware development, SRI said […] More
L3Harris Technologies and Elbit Systems of America have secured contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to produce monocular night-vision image intensifiers for the U.S. Army. The ordering period for both one-time spot-buy contracts is scheduled to conclude on April 10, 2023, the Department of Defense said Friday. DLA’s separate awards to L3Harris’ integrated vision solutions […] More
Devanand Shenoy, principal director for microelectronics at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, will keynote a virtual forum to be hosted by ExecutiveBiz Events to discuss the microelectronics supply chain’s current environment. Shenoy rejoined the Department of Defense in July 2021 to oversee the research and engineering of very […] More
