Northrop Grumman, AT&T and SEMPRE have collaborated to demonstrate the capability of a digital platform to facilitate the sharing of classified military data between aircraft maintainers and subject matter experts to perform flightline maintenance and sustainment operations. The digital platform, dubbed Flightline of the Future, uses commercial augmented reality headsets combined with private and commercial 5G networks to enable maintainers to securely access information and accelerate repairs and upgrades of assets on the flightline, according to a joint release published Tuesday.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to honor CGI Federal President Stephanie Mango with a 2024 Wash100 Award for her unwavering dedication to growing the company through contract wins and technology advancement, marking her third induction into Wash100. The esteemed Wash100 Award annually highlights the most influential figures in the government contracting industry, honoring their past accomplishments while also anticipating their future impact.

Click here to cast your vote for Mango in the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition.

Defense technology company Reticulate Micro has unveiled a new business segment focused on delivering multiorbit satellite communications management technology systems to government and commercial customers. David Horton, a U.S. Air Force and industry veteran, has been appointed president of the newly formed segment Reticulate Space in a string of leadership moves, the company said Tuesday.

Booz Allen Hamilton has opened a new facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina, designed to accelerate the production and deployment of warfighting capabilities for Department of Defense customers. The newly established Joint Tech Acceleration Facility provides nearly 8,000 square feet of space to facilitate collaboration among teams to identify, prototype, test and deploy new capabilities, the Fayetteville Cumberland Economic Development Corporation said Monday.

ICF will modernize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s kidney dialysis data reporting system under a potential three-year, $33 million recompete contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The technology firm said Tuesday it is developing an Amazon Web Services cloud-based service for CMS' End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System to expedite the collection, analysis and synthesis of patient data to efficiently pair patients with health providers.

ManTech and Trust Stamp are combining their capabilities to create a privacy-first identity management technology powered by artificial intelligence. Trust Stamp announced Monday that it entered into a teaming agreement to integrate its Irreversibly Transformed Identity Token into ManTech's analytics and other product offerings.

John Zangardi, CEO of Redhorse and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has joined Commvault's Cyber Resilience Council, which comprises cybersecurity experts from the public and private sectors to advise the company on emerging cyber trends and best practices. "Our newly formed Commvault Cyber Resilience Council will help us keep a pulse on this ever-changing landscape and enable us to continue delivering industry-leading cyber resilience to our customers," Sanjay Mirchandani, president and CEO of Commvault, said in a statement published Monday.

Georgetown University think tank Center for Security and Emerging Technology has entered into a partnership with private nonprofit NobleReach Foundation on the Prototype Analytics for Tracking High-demand Workforce in Innovative Skill Ecosystems, or PATHWISE, Project. CSET said Tuesday that PATHWISE seeks to investigate U.S. talent trends in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, ensuring economic and national security by improving talent demand tracking and enhancing the alignment between industry needs and academia.

Bill Cull has led a 25-year career assisting technology companies in creating and marketing programs to serve the government’s mission. He has served in senior leadership positions at companies such as IBM, Splunk, Oracle and Palo Alto Networks. He is now VP of the U.S. federal business at SpyCloud.

In this Spotlight interview, Cull outlined the demands of the new era of cybercrime that has developed over the last decade, the value and risks of open-source intelligence and more.

TRAX International will continue supporting NASA and several of its facilities under a potential $46.8 million contract extension. The company supports NASA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Wallops Flight Facility and Langley Research Center in Virginia as part of the Goddard Logistics and Technical Information II contract, the space agency said Tuesday.

In a market ruled by emerging technologies and next-generation capabilities, long-established organizational pillars like voice communication still remain critical for federal missions. RingCentral’s head of U.S. Public Sector and Education Stacy Schwartz spoke with Executive Mosaic about the expansion of cloud communications, how artificial intelligence is changing the landscape, the role CX plays and more in a recent Executive Spotlight interview. 

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth was included in Executive Mosaic's esteemed roster of 2024 Wash100 Award winners for continuously driving initiatives in support of the envisioned Army of 2030 and the early developmental phases of the Army of 2040. This is the second time that the Army leader was named among Executive Mosaic's annual list of 100 elite leaders in the government and government contracting space.

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