TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2021 — Gunnison Consulting Group hired former Aquilent senior executive Brian Westhoff as chief growth officer with responsibility for business development, proposal management, marketing and capture functions, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 4.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2021 — Ernst & Young's government and public sector group has named two-decade management consulting services veteran Alexandra Gurney as leader of federal civilian and security accounts, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 4.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2021 — Mike Kahn, president and CEO of CAES, said the company adopted a shorter name to differentiate itself from legacy Cobham businesses and highlight its renewed focus on meeting customer requirements, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 3.

Westech International will help the U.S. Army collect and process data from operational or field testing activities under a five-year, $58.8 million contract. The Army 418th Contracting Support Brigade received eight bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that covers test data management and logistical support services, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

Thomas Pannell, formerly a partner at Ernst & Young's forensic and integrity services practice, has been appointed a managing director within the investigations and risk advisory group of K2 Integrity. He will work in K2 Integrity's New York office and brings more than two decades of industry experience to his new position.

Satellite technology company HawkEye 360 has released its Mission Space offering in a move to help customers identify radio frequency activity and visualize RF geospatial intelligence data. Alex Fox, an executive vice president of HawkEye 360, said the company developed the platform to create value for customers of its subscription RF signal data services and to drive adoption of commercial analytics technology for defense, intelligence and commercial applications.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services, as an inductee into the 2021 edition of the Wash100 for advocating government and industry partnerships to help organizations protect infrastructure with the use of commercial technology. This represents the sixth Wash100 selection for Mark Testoni.

Microsoft has collaborated with Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, to create a tool for tracking the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world and progress in vaccination efforts throughout the U.S.

D-Fend Solutions added new clients and tripled base capacity for its counter-small unmanned aircraft system platform during 2020.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 5, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), said agencies should inspect Secure Sockets Layer traffic within a network using a "defense-in-depth" approach to avoid ransomware attacks and other destructive threat vectors, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 28.

General Electric and Honeywell will help NASA develop turbofan engine technologies as part of a research project to potentially increase the energy efficiency of core power systems for commercial transport and hybrid-electric aircraft. NASA said Friday it entered into separate agreements with the two companies to explore power extraction approaches for the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core initiative.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 2, 2021 — Kristie Grinnell, global chief information officer and vice president for supply chain at General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology business, government contractors can help agencies implement an enterprise architecture and process standards to migrate IT operations to a hybrid cloud computing environment, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 25.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 1, 2021 — The Intelligence and National Security Alliance added industry veterans Damian DiPippa, Adam Rudo and Vicki Schmanske to its board of directors for 2021, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 25.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 1, 2021 — Concurrent Technologies Corp. appointed XLA President and CEO Gary Slack and former CIA Associate Deputy Director Sean Roche to CTC's board of directors, GovCon Wire reported Tuesday.

The Department of Defense has informed lawmakers about the potential implications of an ongoing legal battle with Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary over DOD's award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract to Microsoft, The Washington Times reported Thursday.