ExecutiveBiz News on Video 1/28/2022

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, chief information officer and director of command, control, communications and computers/cyber at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a 2022 Wash100 Award inductee for continuing development and implementation of the Joint All Domain Command and Control strategy. This marks the second consecutive Wash100 recognition for Crall. […]

Brian Wylie, a 12-year leadership team member at Avion Solutions, has been promoted to the roles of vice president and chief growth officer at the Hunstville, Alabama-based military engineering contractor. The former serviceman with the U.S. Navy is now responsible for identifying ways for strategic capability management, opportunities for investments and initiatives for business development, […]

With the growing list of actors in the space domain – across industry and government in the U.S. and worldwide – competition is intensifying and rapid technological innovation is needed to achieve and sustain dominance over adversarial forces and other global powers. “Space is not a benign environment, and our old ways won’t keep up,” […]

Francis Beaudette, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined the board of advisers at Sigma Defense Systems. He and other members of the advisory board will provide strategic guidance as Sigma Defense advances innovation and growth initiatives and expands the company’s platforms to meet the needs of Department of Defense clients, the company said […]

Executive Mosaic has included Greg Wenzel, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, in the 2022 class of Wash100 Award recipients for his continued efforts to drive growth for the defense practice of the McLean, Virginia-based management and information technology consulting firm. His fourth consecutive Wash100 recognition builds on his 2021 win that, according […]

Amentum has secured a $73.03 million contract to support the overseas operations of the U.S. Navy in the Philippines potentially until April 2027. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for support services covers a base period, four optional periods, a demobilization phase and a six-month service extension, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Fiscal 2022 Navy operation and […]

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has extended for another two weeks the submission of proposals for the potential $40 billion Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners follow-on contract for IT platforms and services due to problems with a third-party portal that vendors use to submit the bids, Federal News Network […]

NASA, Rigetti Computing and the Universities Space Research Association will continue to collaborate on the second phase of a quantum technology research and development initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. USRA said Thursday it was awarded a grant to extend work on DARPA’s Optimization with Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices program, which […]

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has chosen Microsoft’s Azure Quantum cloud ecosystem to speed up the scheduling of spacecraft communications. The company’s Azure Quantum team created a product designed to address JPL’s scheduling issues associated with the Deep Space Network, which NASA uses to communicate with spacecraft, Anita Ramanan, a senior software engineer for the Azure […]

Artificial intelligence technology developer Shield AI has secured funds from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX innovation program to integrate autonomy tool into military and commercial aircraft platforms. The Strategic Funding Increase Program award will allow the San Diego-based company to demonstrate the potential of its Hivemind software to support drone swarming and electronic vertical take-off […]