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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Mike Madsen, deputy director and director of strategic engagement at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), as a recipient into the 2021 Wash100 Award for his leadership, innovation and success to drive commercial technology and partnerships to advance IT capabilities for both sectors. This marks the first Wash100 Award for Madsen.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Joshua Marcuse, head of strategy and innovation for Google Cloud's global public sector business, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for his leadership and efforts to advance digital transformation, tech capabilities and drive industry partnerships. This marks Joshua Marcuse's second consecutive Wash100 Award.

GreyNoise Intelligence has entered into an agreement with the Defense Innovation Unit to help the Department of Defense explore scan and attack activities across the internet. GreyNoise said Wednesday it will use its offering to mitigate false positives and internet noise in an effort to optimize DOD investigations.

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded threat intelligence technology maker CounterCraft an other transaction agreement to mature the company's counterintelligence tool in an effort to improve the protection of Department of Defense systems.

L3Harris Technologies demonstrated the capacity of a phased array antenna prototype to support the U.S. Space Force's Satellite Communications Network during a recent exercise at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado.

Errol Farr, former senior director of strategy and business development at AeroVironment, has joined Auterion to serve as the drone software company's vice president for government business development. Farr will oversee business development activities related to Auterion's offerings to security and defense customers, the company said Wednesday.

Eric Frahm, a program manager at the Defense Innovation Unit, has said modern technology could help the U.S. Air Force to address learning, data and scalability limitations in the service branch's Joint Immersive Training System, GCN reported Wednesday.

The Defense Innovation Unit has tapped Immervision to build a wide-angle computer vision camera for small unmanned aerial systems.

The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a suite of sensors, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms for locating, detecting and determining hazardous objects, conditions or degradation on surfaces.

Vertosoft and DataRobot have been awarded an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to support the Army's Office of Financial Operations and Information and the Office of the Secretary of Defense's (OSD) Comptroller to resolve financial and accounting errors without human intervention. DataRobot will integrate its enterprise AI platform with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software to categorize unmatched transactions.

Enlitic has secured an other transactional award from the Defense Innovation Unit to deploy an AI-based diagnostic imaging technology for a pilot program that will take place at multiple treatment centers run by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Health Agency.

Dr. Lisa Porter, former deputy undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, has returned to the Riverside Research board of trustees, the company reported on Monday. Porter has nearly 25 years of experience in the defense and technology industries and is currently the co-president and co-founder of LogiQ.

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions has secured a prototyping contract from the Department of Defense's innovation arm to develop an analytics technology intended to help users examine cybersecurity threat data.

Analyst1 has been selected help the Defense Innovation Unit transform cybersecurity operations through the development of an enterprise-grade technology that will work to automatically process threat intelligence data.

The Department of Defense is looking for commercially available launch services to help send lightweight payloads to low-Earth orbit.