Francis Yip has been promoted to serve as group vice president of Verizon Asia Pacific, according to an announcement Tuesday from Christopher Formant, president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions. Yip will be responsible for providing strategic cloud, mobility, network security and offerings to Verizon’s clients across the Asia-Pacific region, all while maintaining the business in Hong Kong, China, […] More

SandboxAQ has joined forces with NVIDIA to bring predictive capabilities to several scientific areas using quantum simulation platforms. The partnership will support SandboxAQ’s work to support the fields of drug discovery, battery design, green energy and more with artificial intelligence and simulation offerings, the company announced from Palo Alto, California on Monday.

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Artificial intelligence is sweeping today’s public sector market. As executive vice president and AI practice lead at Booz Allen Hamilton, John Larson helms the firm’s efforts to deliver what he considers the “single most transformative technology of a generation” to the federal government. With new technologies come new risks, and rapid advancements in AI have brought about […] More

High assurance crypto modernization is a top trend influencing the defense sector as United States military leaders and federal agencies work to combat increasing threats to critical systems. Executive Mosaic spoke with General Dynamics Mission Systems President Chris Brady, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner, to find out what specific threats we’re facing and what we can do […] More

HawkEye 360 has received a contract from Slingshot Aerospace to provide radio frequency data to the latter to facilitate the detection of GPS interference and other RF threats from space in support of the U.S. Space Force. Herndon, Virginia-based HawkEye said Thursday it will also provide support services for Slingshot’s proliferated Low Earth Orbit Data […] More

Two Accenture Federal Services executives said metaverse technology is making its way into federal government operations and will eventually transform agency processes in sectors ranging from defense to health care. In a joint commentary for Federal News Network, AFS Chief Technology Officer Chris Copeland and Chief Innovation Officer Kyle Michl listed the main areas of […] More

Four more years of high-resolution imagery has been added to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s ArcticDEM, a digital elevation model mapping the entire Arctic region. NGA said Wednesday that it collaborated with academic and private sector institutions to gather data, which increases the database by more than 50 percent compared to previous representations. The ArcticDEM provides […] More

Since his time as president of Pitney Bowes’ government solutions arm in the 2000s, Jon Love has been deeply involved in capturing technology business in the public sector. Love subsequently built on this experience with positions of increasing responsibility at General Dynamics Information Technology and Microsoft, before joining Maxar Technologies in 2020. Today, as Maxar’s […] More

Bill Marion brings extensive experience as a public servant to his work in the private sector. Marion, a managing director at Accenture Federal Services, spent years with organizations such as the U.S. Air Force and the Air Combat Command, holding positions including deputy chief information officer overseeing digital transformation, personnel pay and services, as well […] More

Yancey Hall, chief growth officer at Isobar Public Sector, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the company’s work to ensure long-term success for its workforce as well as its efforts to address the most significant challenges facing federal agencies and the implementation of the latest emerging technologies in our business during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. “Transformation is such […] More

Amazon‘s cloud business has launched to the general public a tool designed to help users monitor and enhance industrial operations by enabling them to make a digital replica of real-world equipment, facilities, production lines and other assets. Amazon Web Services said Thursday the AWS Internet of Things TwinMaker service is now available in the U.S. […] More

Definitive Logic has proposed five concepts to the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform Commission to help improve the Department of Defense’s PPBE process and one of those is the need to start with Fortune 500-tested processes for financial planning. “Today’s Fortune 500-tested financial planning processes have a proven track record of allocating resources well […] More