Michael House, vice present of infrastructure and energy solutions at Siemens Government Technologies, believes advanced digital services can be a game changer for how federal agencies improve energy resilience and sustainability at their facilities and installations.

In this Executive Spotlight interview, House mulled over various renewable energy sources and solutions in development, such as microgrids, and the necessity of partnership with private industry on the government’s part to ensure their swift and effective implementation.

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John Ustica, president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, has been included for the second time in Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 Award recognizing government contracting change-makers for 2024. A champion of digital twin technology, Ustica highlighted SGT's innovation to combine the power of physical and digital tools to meet the production cycle needs of the public sector. 

Vote for Ustica as one of your favorite 2024 Wash100 awardees at Wash100.com. This year’s popular vote competition runs through April 30, so cast your 10 votes now!

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An RTX subsidiary is set to collaborate with industry partners for the development of a new technology that could enhance sensor capabilities across ground, maritime and airborne domains under a $20 million National Security Technology Accelerator contract. RTX said Thursday Raytheon will package commercial devices from partners like AMD to assemble a next-generation multi-chip package capable of transforming radio frequency energy into digital information with more bandwidth and higher data rates.

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Chuck Jones, formerly a vice president at Honeywell, has joined RTX business Raytheon as VP of digital operations. In a recent post on LinkedIn, Jones said he would spearhead product life cycle process transformation efforts and collaborate with the senior engineering, supply chain, operations and quality leadership teams.

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Divergent Technologies has closed its Series D equity financing, totaling $230 million. Divergent said Monday that Hexagon AB invested $100 million and led the capital raising round, which included new and existing institutional and family office investors.

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Concurrent Technologies Corp. is increasing its investments in three strategic focus areas – digital engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning and cybersecurity - to develop technological capabilities meant to support the missions of Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and federal agency customers.

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In an ever-evolving business landscape, it becomes crucial to stay abreast of industry trends and strategies. Gaining insights from experienced business development leaders can provide valuable guidance and inspiration to aspiring individuals looking to drive revenue growth, explore new markets, or build a more effective sales team. Here, we present a list of business development […] More

Gary Hix, chief technology officer of Hitachi Vantara Federal, said federal agencies should consider the business case for advancing sustainability to help address the climate crisis as they pursue information technology modernization efforts. “In a fortuitous twist, sustainability and digital transformation go together as transformation drives sustainability. Moving to newer technologies will reduce emissions, because […] More

Michael House, vice president of infrastructure and energy solutions at Siemens Government Technologies, said federal agencies could help address climate change and improve energy resilience and sustainability by adopting smart building technologies. In a LinkedIn article published Monday, House discussed how smart lighting, HVAC controls, storage systems such as mobile microgrids and solar panels and […] More

The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is seeking industry partners to develop and commercialize its new system that uses public key cryptography to detect artificial intelligence-generated text. According to a notice on SAM.gov, LLNL’s new invention can be used to validate human-generated content by producing an anonymized digital signature attached to the text […] More

The venture capital units at Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies took part in an investment round that raised $12.5 million for Fortify, a startup company developing an advanced manufacturing platform. Fortify said Thursday the money will go toward its Digital Composite Manufacturing system development and business growth initiatives. The DCM platform, designed to support complex […] More

Kinder Morgan Inc., a critical infrastructure operator that delivers oil and gas to U.S. government and commercial clients, has selected Xage Security to secure its information technology and operational technology systems. Xage said Tuesday it will provide the energy infrastructure operator with zero trust access and data security products to help boost its cybersecurity resilience […] More