ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/27/2022

The past decade has seen significant changes in the U.S. intelligence community. Most notably, the IC has shifted away from counterterrorism — which was a major priority for decades — and pivoted toward competition with the country’s four key hard target adversaries. Executive Mosaic spoke with Juliane Gallina, associate deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency’s […]

NASA has awarded Science Applications International Corp a five-year, $170 million contract to carry out testing and maintenance on space systems and technological programs. The Reston, Virginia-based company said Tuesday that under the Systems and Software Assurance Services 2 contract, its team will conduct safety and mission assurance and mission protection activities, among other services. Michael LaRouche, […]

Dan Verwiel, formerly a vice president and general manager at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been named president and CEO of Ultra Electronics‘ intelligence and communications segment. He will succeed current I&C President Mike Baptist, who has decided to step down after a three-decade career at Ultra, the defense technology provider said Thursday. Verwiel, who […]

Jyoti (Jodi) Wadhwa was recently appointed the senior director of Global Cloud Security for NetApp, the hybrid cloud data services and data management company. The announcement was made via LinkedIn by Phillip Miller, NetApp’s vice president and chief information security officer, who detailed that Wadhwa and her team will ensure data security in the cloud while maintaining […]

Kim Lynch and Christine Menza of Booz Allen Hamilton said there are three strategies the Intelligence Community should implement to support the IC workforce while building resilience amid the emergence of nation-state competition and the first is integrating the innovators. “The IC can move forward using commercial technologies that are readily available, embedding software across […]

A partnership between Rite-Solutions and ECS has received a potential $77 million contract to provide cybersecurity support services to a department under the U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Virginia. Rite-Solutions said Monday the five-year contract will include efforts to engineer software and systems for the NSWCDD Strategic and Computing Systems Department. […]

The Department of the Air Force has released a request for proposals for the micro-reactor pilot project located at Eielson Air Force Base and envisioned to provide clean nuclear energy supply technology for national security infrastructure. Nancy Balkus, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Environment, Safety and Infrastructure, said in a statement published […]

A Catawba business and Day & Zimmermann’s maintenance and construction group have formed a joint venture, called Catawba D&Z, through the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Mentor-Protege Program to offer design and build, deactivation, decommissioning and demolition, environmental studies and construction support to military and federal agency clients. DZMC will advise Catawba Engineering and Environmental Services […]

Northrop Grumman has revealed the unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator it is building in support of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to develop a new class of UUVs. The company said Monday the Manta Ray UUV is envisioned to be able to conduct long-range missions, carry large payloads, recharge autonomously using energy from its […]

Tim Spadafore, chief operating officer of Client Solution Architects, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview with GovCon Wire published on Monday. He talked about the challenges in federal customers’ transition from legacy products to emerging software platforms and how to address them. The Q&A also tackled emerging technologies, changes in the government contracting […]