ExecutiveBiz News on Video 8/26/2021

John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for the publication’s latest Executive Spotlight interview to discuss how the company is addressing the most challenging IT modernization and national security efforts, CACI’s recent major contract award wins and the recent spike in revenue and company growth. […]

The U.S. Navy is expected to order the start of the production of a new Northrop Grumman-made extended-range missile after the weapon secured a milestone C approval on Aug. 23. Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday the service branch looks to award a pair of contracts for the low-rate initial production of the Advanced Anti-Radiation […]

Bruce Andrews, most recently a senior vice president and managing partner at Softbank Group, will officially join Intel on Sept. 7 to serve as corporate VP and chief government affairs officer. He will oversee the chipmaker’s government relations and public policy functions in his new position, Intel said Thursday. “Government affairs plays a heavy role […]

Kai Skvarla, a two-decade industry veteran, was appointed as head of international maritime programs at Serco Group where he will be responsible for supervising maritime sector growth strategy and driving business development efforts across four company divisions. The former president of BMT Designers & Planners will now work with Serco divisional chief executives to pursue […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have launched a testbed supercomputer designed to help developers and scientists optimize artificial intelligence, scientific and engineering projects planned for Aurora, the forthcoming exascale supercomputer. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host and manage the Polaris testbed supercomputer, which will be installed by HPE […]

Vannevar Labs, a startup working on foreign text analysis tools for defense and intelligence applications, has raised $12 million in a Series A financing round backed by venture capital firms. Costanoa Ventures, Point72 Ventures and General Catalyst participated in the funding round for Vannevar Labs, which plans to use the money to develop a new […]

Excella will use its artificial intelligence capabilities to help a committee under the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency develop audit and oversight strategies to ensure transparency in pandemic-related spending. The company said Wednesday it received a two-year contract to support the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee’s work to enhance oversight of more than […]

Ridgecrest, California-based New Directions Technologies has secured a potential five-year, $48 million contract from NASA to perform a variety of information technology services in support of the Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center and Ames Research Center. The company will manage projects, secure IT systems, develop software, engineer management systems and support enterprise architecture under […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has started the construction of the U.S. Navy’s fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier that the service branch plans to use for global sea lane protection and national security strategy implementation initiatives. The future aircraft carrier Doris Miller (CVN 81) is part of a contract for ship design […]

Phase Four was tasked to demonstrate multi-mode propulsion capabilities using its radio-frequency thruster technology as part of a contract awarded by the U.S. Space Force during the SpaceWERX Pitch Day in mid-August. The company said Wednesday its Maxwell engine will operate on an Air Force Research Laboratory-developed green propellant in an effort to enable varying […]