ExecutiveBiz News on Video 11/21/2022

Deep Water Point and its investment partner, Renovus Capital Partners, have confirmed a deal to acquire Wolf Den Associates, a consulting firm focused on full lifecycle growth. The transaction will integrate Deep Water Point’s knowledge of market opportunities and go-to-market strategies with Wolf Den’s practitioner-led capture and proposal, strategy, management consulting and transaction advisory offerings, the parties jointly […]

Baird’s fifth annual Government & Defense Conference hosted government officials and industry representatives from the federal sector to discuss current trends and future business strategies and opportunities in the government contracting industry. On Thursday, previous Wash100 Award recipients John Mengucci of CACI International, Jonathan Moneymaker of BlueHalo, Byron Bright of KBR and Tony Frazier of […]

Sarah Sanchez, former vice president of information technology at Science Applications International Corp., has joined ATG Innovations as chief growth officer. ATGI said Frida Sanchez will oversee health care IT innovation, federal contract diversification and other strategic efforts of the company. Sanchez brings to her new role more than 30 years of experience in IT […]

ADNET Systems will continue to support planetary studies, solar and space plasma physics, oceanography, solid earth geographics, geodynamics, atmospheric science and climatology and other science disciplines under a six-month contract extension awarded by NASA through the fourth iteration of the Space and Earth Science Data Analysis program. The potential $36 million extension brings the total […]

SandboxAQ will carry out a feasibility study to determine how its quantum-resistant security applications could help the U.S. Air Force assess its cryptographic cybersecurity posture under the initial phase of the Small Business Innovation Research contract. The company said Friday it will execute a post-quantum cryptographic inventory analysis and help the service branch implement a […]

Kenneth Myers, president of CRDF Global, has been appointed as executive committee chair of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. CRDF said Friday Myers previously held the positions of vice chairman and large business/nonprofit representative at CWMD Consortium for the last three years. “I look forward to working alongside my colleagues at the CWMD Consortium […]

Adam Lurie, chief strategy officer of Torch.AI, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. He discussed the company’s use of artificial intelligence to help its customers address data-related challenges. The Q&A also tackled Torch.AI’s growth initiatives as well as the government agencies’ efforts aimed at staying ahead of innovation. Here’s an excerpt […]

Booz Allen Hamilton will conduct research and development work related to platform cognitive capability under a $14.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Air Force.  The company will look into the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning and data processing to help the mentioned capability and next mission reprogramming, the Department of Defense said Friday.  […]

Space Systems Command has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Blue Origin to enable the latter’s New Glenn heavy-lift launch vehicle to compete for future National Security Space Launch program. The agreement requires Blue Origin to restart and complete certification flights for New Glenn and provide the Assured Access to Space Directorate with […]

The Department of Energy has provided five researchers from General Atomics with funding to perform experimental research on fusion energy at tokamak facilities in support of the administration’s goal of developing a fusion energy pilot plant. General Atomics said Friday research projects at tokamak facilities in the U.S. and worldwide are mainly focused on creating […]