ExecutiveBiz News on Video 1/5/2023

Carmen Krueger leads the SAP U.S. Regulated Industries practice, which encompasses federal, state, and local government, as well as the higher education, aerospace and defense, health care and utilities industries. She is responsible for overseeing strategy, business operations, revenue performance, customer relationships and overall customer satisfaction throughout the United States. Since joining SAP in 2005, […]

Science Applications International Corp. has won a $150 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Transportation Command for information technology modernization services. Under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, SAIC is responsible for incorporating novel technologies into enterprise IT systems and implementing IT as-a-service models over a five-year period, the Reston, Virginia-based organization said Thursday. “We are thrilled to bring […]

Electronic warfare threats are intensifying across the globe — for the past year, EW tactics have been heavily deployed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Early on in the conflict, Russian forces jammed and disrupted Ukraine’s radars and communications systems. In late December 2022, Russian troops used EW to disable 90 percent of Ukraine’s drones, […]

Bobby Saxon, a retired U.S. Army colonel and outgoing deputy director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Office of Information Technology, is set to rejoin the industry as a vice president at Leidos. In a LinkedIn post, Saxon said he will focus on customer advocacy in his new role at Leidos. Saxon held […]

A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary has secured a prime contract to develop a missile warning satellite prototype under a U.S. Space Force program focused on advancing the detection and tracking of missiles in medium Earth orbit. Raytheon Intelligence & Space said Wednesday it will team up with Lockheed Martin to integrate its Missile Track Custody payload […]

Alex Whitworth, cybersecurity solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said government agencies and organizations must assess their cybersecurity posture and initiate cyber improvements to ensure that they can withstand ransomware attacks. “With the increasing trends, officials point to the new harsh reality that ransomware is not a question of if a company will be attacked […]

Hammerspace has commenced operations of its U.S. federal division and appointed Robert Renzoni, former senior official at Quantum, as director of technical sales responsible for leading the new business arm. In his new role, Renzoni will spearhead the Hammerspace team in bringing the global data environment to the public sector, the company said Wednesday. As […]

John Zangardi, CEO of Redhorse Corp. and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, pointed to secure networks, cloud technology and artificial intelligence as the key capabilities he believes will help the U.S. military make data-driven decisions. The retired naval flight officer gave his perspective on the game-changing potential of AI in defense missions during a recent […]

Chris Marzilli, former executive vice president of General Dynamics‘ technologies segment, has been appointed to the board of directors at Innovative Rocket Technologies. iRocket said Wednesday the three-time Wash100 awardee joined the reusable small launch vehicle manufacturer following his retirement from General Dynamics, where he worked for four decades. Marzilli brings decades of leadership experience […]

Semiconductor Research Corp. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have selected seven university-run research centers as part of the second iteration of the Joint University Microelectronics Program. The centers will focus on seven research themes of JUMP 2.0: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing to action; systems and architectures for distributed compute; intelligent memory […]