ExecutiveBiz News on Video 1/6/2023

For over two decades, Tom Dowd has dedicated himself to supporting health-focused government agencies in furthering their missions of providing health and social services to American citizens. Since the creation of KPMG’s federal healthcare sector over 10 years ago, Dowd has guided the company’s efforts to aid these organizations in implementing substantive healthcare-related initiatives. Dowd began his […]

CACI International will handle background investigation fieldwork for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency under a five-year, $2.25 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Over 1,000 CACI background investigators will perform initial probes and periodic reinvestigations for DCSA. , the Reston, Virginia-headquartered company said Thursday. Work will be conducted across 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C. and all commonwealths and […]

Lockheed Martin has awarded CAES a low-rate initial production phase 2 contract to continue the supply of phased array antennas for the former’s Advanced Off-Board Electronic Warfare system. CAES said Wednesday its phased array antennas are designed to support the AOEW system’s ability to function autonomously or with a ship’s onboard electronic surveillance sensor. AOEW […]

Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said government agencies looking to eliminate collaboration and communication barriers and address information silos to help improve developer productivity should consider three factors and the first is investing in software built for developer workflows. “Since open source is easily customizable, […]

TechFlow will continue its development and sustainment support for the cloud.gov platform-as-a-service under a follow-on contract from the General Services Administration. The single-award contract involves consultation support for cloud.gov as well as the operation, maintenance, monitoring and upgrading of @underlyingcloud.gov, the company said Thursday. Cloud.gov is a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-approved PaaS designed […]

Ryan McCarthy, former secretary of the U.S. Army and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed to the board of directors at endpoint security company Lynx Software Technologies. Tim Reed, CEO of Lynx, said in a statement published Thursday, McCarthy brings extensive industry and defense experience to the company as it seeks to accelerate the […]

Sigma7, a New York-based risk services provider, has named three retired military and national security officials to its newly created advisory board to help guide the company’s clients in assessing and responding to risks. The appointees are Nadia Schadlow, a former U.S. deputy national security adviser for strategy; Martin Dempsey, a retired U.S. Army general and […]

Leonardo DRS will provide the U.S. Army with additional counter-unmanned aircraft systems and spares under a task order awarded through an existing indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The task order was awarded in support of the Mobile-Low, Slow, Small UAS Integrated Defeat System program of the Army’s Integrated Fires/Rapid Capabilities Office, Leonardo DRS said Thursday. M-LIDS is […]

Nat Bongiovanni, chief technology officer of NTT Data’s federal services group, suggests that agencies should focus on three basic zero trust architecture capabilities in 2023 to align with the U.S. government’s cybersecurity goals. In a blog post published Thursday, Bongiovanni listed authentication, monitoring and authorization as the primary measures every government organization should prioritize when […]

Guidehouse named 24 new partners within the firm to help strengthen its consulting services to the public and commercial sectors. The newly appointed professionals are adept at fields including defense and security, energy and sustainability, health and technology, the consulting and managed services provider said Thursday. Guidehouse Chief Technology Officer Dan Hushon and cybersecurity director […]