ExecutiveBiz News on Video 3/21/2022

Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Haywood “Woody” Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ government business and LexisNexis Special Services, as a 2022 recipient of the prestigious Wash100 Award – an annual recognition of the top players within the government contracting community. Talcove is awarded this year for his persistent fraud prevention efforts and transformation of LexisNexis into […]

Farah Shah, general counsel for Valiant Integrated Services, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the company’s growth initiatives for 2022 and its methods for driving customer value and success in the highly competitive federal landscape and technology market. In addition, Shah also discussed the  core values that drive its company culture as well as the impact […]

A Chenega Corp. subsidiary has won a $42.8 million follow-on award to help the Missile Defense Agency field and maintain hardware used to launch missile assets. Under the five-year contract, Venturi will assist MDA in the preparation, loading and unloading, transportation, erection and handling of live missile launchers, the Department of Defense said Friday. The […]

Juan Perez, chief information and engineering officer at United Parcel Service, will join Salesforce on April 4 to serve as CIO, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. He has been with UPS for 32 years and led the Atlanta-based logistics company’s advanced technology group, which focused on identifying and conducting experiments with blockchain and other […]

Carahsoft has added two identity and access management platforms from Okta to Amazon Web Services’ digital catalog that offers government customers access to third-party cloud offerings. The AWS Marketplace now includes Okta’s Workforce Identity and Customer Identity software-as-a-service offerings for the federal, state, local and education sectors, Carahsoft said Friday. “Public Sector customers now have […]

A U.S. Navy warfare center has teamed up with Huntington Ingalls Industries to integrate a threat detection system onto an unmanned surface vehicle as part of a cooperative research and development agreement. The partnership seeks to equip a commercially developed USV platform with technology that the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division created to […]

Chris Brady, president of the mission systems unit at General Dynamics and a 2022 Wash100 winner, said in a recent Executive Spotlight interview that the business is working to expand its unmanned underwater vehicle autonomy technologies and gave an overview of its “Hammerhead” anti-submarine mine system prototype project with the U.S. Navy. “As we look […]

Executive Mosaic has featured Jason Porter, president of AT&T’s public sector and FirstNet organization, in the 2022 Wash100 class for his public safety communications leadership and 5G connectivity vision. This year marks his entry into the premier group of leaders who drive growth and innovation in the government contracting arena. Since February 2021, Porter has […]

A National Institute of Standards and Technology-run center has partnered with Forescout Technologies to craft new guidance for manufacturing companies to strengthen cybersecurity of operational and information technology assets. The company said it seeks to help manufacturers address integrity risks and protect data in industrial control systems as part of the National Cybersecurity Center of […]

Cybersecurity company VMD has won a five-year task order to help the State Department’s Bureau of Information Resource Management protect information technology systems. VMD said Friday it will perform anti-virus and video security services as part of the order awarded under the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 contract vehicle. The Bureau of Information Resource […]