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ExecutiveBiz is pleased to recognize the most significant executive recruiters of consequence influencing the government contracting (GovCon) industry with its seventh annual list of the Top Ten Executive Recruiters for 2020. Executive recruiters play a pivotal part in maintaining the success of the sector’s most important companies to lead the continued growth of the GovCon industry as a whole. 

Tom Afferton, vice president of Defense and Intelligence Business Unit with Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding information technology (IT) modernization, cybersecurity and evolving threats. He also addressed how the company has helped customers adapt to remote working and how it’s shifted the technology and cultural landscape. …

Shamlan Siddiqi, chief technology officer of NTT DATA’s public sector division, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the impact artificial intelligence is having on the U.S. government, the reason why there’s so much red tape in AI innovation, why attracting talent is such a challenge in today’s climate and how the government can implement emerging technology more effectively.

Local CEO Matthew Desch took over Iridium, based in McLean, Va., 12 years ago and helped the company recover from a troubled past to become the powerhouse that it is today. Under Desch’s leadership, Iridium averaged nine percent growth during the past decade and is operating in a category all …

Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary has received a contract from Environmental Defense Fund to design and define requirements for a small satellite designed to detect and monitor methane emissions from oil and gas facilities worldwide. MethaneSAT is a small form-factor satellite that will work to provide high-resolution images to help detect and measure low- and high-emission sources in regions that constitute more than 80 percent of global production of oil and gas per week, Maxar said Thursday. 

ASGN’s ECS business has teamed up with search company Elastic to leverage the latter’s open-source technologies and software-as-a-service offerings to build up the speed and security posture of its big data platforms. ECS said Wednesday it will use Elastic’s technology platform to advance machine learning and build up reporting and monitoring in support of defense, federal civilian and commercial clients.

A new analysis by health care company Premier found that U.S. hospitals incur approximately $11.3B in total annual costs associated with patients who experienced opioid overdoses, constituting 1 percent of all hospital spending. Premier performed the opioid overdose analysis in October using a year’s worth of data from 647 health …

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company considers the upcoming launch of the last and eighth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites as “the most important milestone of all,” Via Satellite reported Thursday. The Iridium-8 mission is now scheduled to launch Tuesday, Jan. 8, aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg …

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, has predicted the federal government will implement this year a new policy to manage data “at the edge.” “Capturing data at the edge and being able to get [artificial intelligence and machine learning] faster with real-time capabilities and security is …

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company could opt to send the six ground spare satellites for the Iridium NEXT constellation should an opportunity for a rideshare mission arise, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “If the right deal comes along, similar to the one that we had with Iridium-6 and the …

Women now hold senior leadership roles at top defense contractors and among them are Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, and Engility CEO Lynn Dugle, Politico reported Wednesday. Caret noted that women continue to encounter challenges in the defense sector, which she considers are …

David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s North American public sector, has said there are several options the federal government can consider to build up its workforce’s cybersecurity and information technology skills and one of those is to explore open-source training. “The proliferation of open source software has changed the training landscape …

Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon, told C4ISRNET that one of the trends he expects to see in 2019 is the Department of Defense’s move to accelerate the acquisition of weapons systems through commercial software development model. “I see 2019 as the point when the …

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has booked new contracts and renewals worth up to $65M combined to support various space and satellite communications programs. The company said Monday it will provide technology platforms for satellite command, cloud computing architecture, signal monitoring and service assurance applications designed to aid space defense …

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Inmarsat Government has said industry and military leaders have initiated several space-related measures in 2018 meant to establish a resilient, global and integrated satellite communication architecture. Those actions include the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, National Defense Strategy and the Joint Space Operations Center’s transition to the Combined …