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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.
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services, as an inductee into the 2021 edition of the Wash100 for advocating government and industry partnerships to help organizations protect infrastructure with the use of commercial technology. This represents the sixth Wash100 selection for Mark Testoni.
Microsoft has collaborated with Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, to create a tool for tracking the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world and progress in vaccination efforts throughout the U.S.
D-Fend Solutions added new clients and tripled base capacity for its counter-small unmanned aircraft system platform during 2020.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 5, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), said agencies should inspect Secure Sockets Layer traffic within a network using a "defense-in-depth" approach to avoid ransomware attacks and other destructive threat vectors, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 28.
General Electric and Honeywell will help NASA develop turbofan engine technologies as part of a research project to potentially increase the energy efficiency of core power systems for commercial transport and hybrid-electric aircraft. NASA said Friday it entered into separate agreements with the two companies to explore power extraction approaches for the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core initiative.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 2, 2021 — Kristie Grinnell, global chief information officer and vice president for supply chain at General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology business, government contractors can help agencies implement an enterprise architecture and process standards to migrate IT operations to a hybrid cloud computing environment, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 25.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 1, 2021 — The Intelligence and National Security Alliance added industry veterans Damian DiPippa, Adam Rudo and Vicki Schmanske to its board of directors for 2021, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 25.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 1, 2021 — Concurrent Technologies Corp. appointed XLA President and CEO Gary Slack and former CIA Associate Deputy Director Sean Roche to CTC's board of directors, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday.
The Department of Defense has informed lawmakers about the potential implications of an ongoing legal battle with Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary over DOD's award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract to Microsoft, The Washington Times reported Thursday.
Verizon and the nonprofit US Ignite organization have started testing a 5G wireless network at a U.S. Marine Corps installation in San Diego as part of a $4 million technology pilot program backed by Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific and the Office of Naval Research.
AT&T has introduced four communications technology offerings that are built to work with the national FirstNet broadband system and help increase first responders' situational awareness. “First responders are the heart of FirstNet, and it is their input that is shaping the new tools and technologies on their network, today and for decades to come," said Jason Porter, senior vice president of AT&T's FirstNet program.
