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Executive Mosaic is honored to present Jill Singer, vice president of federal solutions at AT&T, as a 2024 Wash100 Award winner for advancing the adoption of 5G capabilities and promoting network modernization efforts in support of government missions. This year marks Singer’s seventh Wash100 win.
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Idemia Group has formed three divisions focused on secure transactions, public security and smart identity as part of a reorganization effort that seeks to accelerate growth, streamline operations and provide innovative platforms meant to address the needs of customers. The company said Friday it named industry executives Philippe Oliva, Matthew Cole and Antoine Grenier as CEOs of each division and that Pierre Barrial will continue to serve as president and chief executive of Idemia Group.
Mack Defense and Navistar Defense have been selected for the initial development of the next-generation Medium Tactical Truck that will replace the U.S. Marine Corps' Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement fleet. Each contractor will develop and submit design concepts and a comprehensive project plan for the cargo variant of the MTT vehicle fleet under the program's 12-month phase I period, the Marine Corps said Friday.
The U.S. Army concluded a squad-level assessment of the latest prototype of Microsoft’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System. Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division tested the phase 2 IVAS 1.2 prototype for five days starting Jan. 22 at Picatinny Arsenal’s Tactical Behavioral Research Lab in New Jersey.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse within the National Institutes of Health has awarded Westat a potential $809.1 million contract to continue providing data collection and analysis support for the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study. NIDA issued a solicitation in June and secured two proposals for the research and development contract in support of the PATH Study, according to an award notice published Thursday.
Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in weather intelligence provider Meteomatics to support the latter's product development and market expansion initiatives. Meteomatics said Thursday it will use the capital to scale its high-resolution weather and climate technology and expand its presence in the defense, energy, aviation, insurance and government sectors.
The U.S. Department of State has approved a proposed $150 million sale of AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles to the government of the Netherlands. The sale includes 386 units of AGM-114R2 as well as technical assistance from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command's Security Assistance Management Directorate, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced Friday.
Rudy Fernandez, formerly senior director of maritime systems and integration operating unit at Northrop Grumman, has joined Frontier Technology Inc. as vice president of Navy/Marine Corps operations, he announced on LinkedIn Sunday. The transition follows his more than six-year stint at Northrop Grumman, where he also most recently served as Charlottesville site lead.
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division has concluded the builder’s sea trials for the San Antonio-class landing platform dock USS Richard M. McCool Jr. in preparation for its delivery to the U.S. Navy in the spring. The company said Thursday the vessel, with hull number LPD 29, underwent systems testing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Carahsoft will serve as a public sector distributor for software provider Fortra under a recently-announced partnership between the two companies. Carahsoft said Thursday that its GSA Schedule, NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 and OMNIA Partners contracts will be the avenues by which Fortra's products will be made available to public sector customers.
Register now to attend the Potomac Officers Club's 2024 Cyber Summit, which will tackle the dynamic and ever-evolving role of cyber in the public sector.
Honeywell will invest $84 million to expand its aerospace manufacturing site in Olathe, Kansas. In the first six years, the expansion project could generate around $47 million in GDP and contribute $18.3 million to state and local taxes, the company said Friday.
