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  • EY Announces Leadership Changes as Part of Infrastructure Capability Consolidation Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EY Announces Leadership Changes as Part of Infrastructure Capability Consolidation Effort

    EY has made a series of leadership changes as part of its transaction advisory services business’ move to merge infrastructure capabilities across practices in the Americas. The move also aims to facilitate the delivery of services to clients in public and private sectors that develop, operate and acquire transportation, power and utilities, telecommunications and other critical infrastructure, EY said Monday.

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  • Michele Flournoy, Ellen Jewett Appointed to Booz Allen Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michele Flournoy, Ellen Jewett Appointed to Booz Allen Board

    Former Defense Department official Michele Flournoy and Goldman Sachs veteran Ellen Jewett have been named to the board of directors at Booz Allen Hamilton. Flournoy, who will join the board’s compensation committee on Oct. 24, previously served as DoD undersecretary for policy and as CEO of the Center for a New American Security, Booz Allen said Tuesday. She is also […] More

  • Terran Orbital Raises Series B Funds to Establish New Production Facility, Expand Workforce - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Terran Orbital Raises Series B Funds to Establish New Production Facility, Expand Workforce

    Terran Orbital Corp. has raised $36 million in its Series B funding round, which will be used to hire new employees and procure additional manufacturing equipment for the company’s new nanosatellite production facility. The Irvine, Calif.-based firm said Monday it received the funds from investors such as Lockheed Martin, Beach Point Capital Management and Goldman […] More

  • Kelsey DeBriyn Promoted to Raytheon Investor Relations VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kelsey DeBriyn Promoted to Raytheon Investor Relations VP

    Kelsey DeBriyn has been promoted to vice president of investor relations at Raytheon and succeeded Todd Ernst, who became VP of corporate development in October 2017. Raytheon said Tuesday DeBriyn will lead investor community engagement programs and interact with analysts and institutional investors to inform them about the company’s franchise programs, business objectives, performance, prospects and outlook. […] More

  • Julie Boland Named EY Vice Chair & Regional Managing Partner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Julie Boland Named EY Vice Chair & Regional Managing Partner

    Julie Boland, managing partner at EY‘s Cleveland office, has been named as the company’s vice chair and regional managing partner for the U.S. Central Region, effective July 1. EY said Wednesday Boland will oversee teams, market leadership, talent development and customer service for the company’s regional practice. She will also support several of the company’s largest […] More

  • Former NGA Director Letitia Long Joins Sonatype Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NGA Director Letitia Long Joins Sonatype Board

    Letitia Long, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, has been named an independent director of Sonatype‘s board of directors. Sonatype said Tuesday Long will work with board representatives from the company’s lead investors that include Goldman Sachs, Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She held various civilian leadership positions during her more than 35-year […] More

  • Belfer Center Report Examines Potential Uses of AI Tech in National Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Belfer Center Report Examines Potential Uses of AI Tech in National Security

    A new study conducted by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has concluded that the impact of autonomous robots and other artificial intelligence technologies on national security could match that of nuclear weapons, Wired reported Wednesday. Belfer Center produced the report “Artificial Intelligence and National Security” as per the Intelligence Advanced […] More

  • D-Wave Systems to Demo Quantum Computing System at Inaugural Conference in New Mexico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D-Wave Systems to Demo Quantum Computing System at Inaugural Conference in New Mexico

    D-Wave Systems will unveil additional details of its latest quantum computing platform that features a new 2000-qubit processor at an inaugural users group conference Wednesday and Thursday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. D-Wave said Tuesday the processor has doubled the amount of qubits from the previous D-Wave 2X system and introduces control features that work to configure the quantum computational process. Jeremy […] More

  • In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel Invests in Zoomdata Visual Analytics Platform for Intell Community

    In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Zoomdata as the companies seek to help address the intelligence community’s big data management requirements with the latter’s visual analytics platform. The agreement comes a month after Zoomdata began to offer its technology to the IC via an Amazon Web Services-hosted marketplace of software products and developers […] More

  • Mary Henry to Become Independent Director on Avaya’s Board; Kevin J. Kennedy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Henry to Become Independent Director on Avaya’s Board; Kevin J. Kennedy Comments

    Mary Henry, formerly partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs, will become an independent director of Avaya’s board of directors. Henry also serves as a director of personal business analytics provider FirstRain and Avida Labs, which provides services for cancer patients, Avaya said Thursday. “Her expertise and perspective will be a tremendous asset to the […] More