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TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 15, 2021 — Tiffanny Gates, president and CEO of Novetta and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, and three other government and industry leaders have joined the board of directors of Two Six Technologies to help the company pursue its strategic goals and further develop national security offerings to clients, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.
NASA has partnered with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to enable the space agency to use the latter's New Shepard suborbital vehicle for flights to study reduced gravity scenarios similar to the gravity on the moon. The new capability for lunar gravity testing is expected to be available in late 2022.
AT&T has partnered with Fortinet to create Secure Access Service Edge, the first global managed SASE offering meant to unify software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) with 24×7 management and vital network security functions. AT&T SASE with Fortinet will be immediately available, with system updates expected throughout 2021.
Executive Mosaic announced on Tuesday that Raj Iyer, chief information officer for the U.S. Army, has received his first Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for driving new information technology (IT) initiatives, introducing advanced modernization priorities and preparing the service branch to compete in the future of digital warfare.Â
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 9, 2021 — ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) appointed Joseph Cubba, formerly an IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive, as chief growth officer to oversee its profit, sales and revenue growth strategies, GovCon Wire reported March 2.
The White House announced on Saturday nominations for three U.S. combatant commands. Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson was nominated to lead the U.S. Southern Command and a fourth star. Navy Adm. John Aquilino has been nominated to lead the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost was nominated to take over the U.S. Transportation Command.Â
C3.ai has added Shell to the consortium of universities, national laboratories and companies that make up its Digital Transformation Institute. Detlef Hohl, chief scienctist for computation and data science at Shell, will represent the company in the consortium. “Shell has established clear leadership in new energy, having laid out its ‘Powering Progress’ commitment to accelerate the transition of Shell’s businesses to net zero emissions,†said Tom Siebel, C3.ai founder and CEO.Â
Novetta has been designated as an authorized organization under the Department of Defense (DOD) SkillBridge Program to train and hire transitioning U.S. military service members. "Our nation's heroes have the values and skills that make exceptional employees to support our customer missions," said Joe Zuliani, vice president of mission integration – special operations forces at Novetta and a retired U.S. Navy officer.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 5, 2021 — The technical solutions division at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) elevated Chris Walton, Grant Hagen and Jaime Orlando from senior director roles to vice president ranks, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 25.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 4, 2021 — Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), told analysts in a conference call that the company's move to acquire Gibbs & Cox aims to add a pipeline of marine engineering and naval architecture services to the existing maritime business, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 24
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 4, 2021 — Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will build and test fuel storage for the U.S. Navy's MK48 heavyweight torpedo system under a $120 million prime contract with a base performance period of 18 months, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 24.
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 4, 2021 — Amentum will help the U.S. Navy Program Executive Officer for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons integrate and engineer systems for range facilities as part of a five-year, $43 million task order under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services contract, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 24.
