ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/1/2021

Frank Calvelli, a 34-year federal service veteran who most recently served as principal deputy director at the National Reconnaissance Office, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton‘s national security unit as a senior vice president. His responsibilities include overseeing the company’s work in the space segment as it aims to provide new technology to intelligence and defense […]

Scott Faris, formerly chief business officer of Luminar Technologies, has joined ColdQuanta to serve as CEO in line with the quantum technology company’s business reorganization efforts. The company said Tuesday Faris has more than three decades of leadership experience, having held executive roles at Planar Energy, Panaceutics, Ocean Optics and Waveguide Solutions, where he served […]

Aerospace Corp. CEO Steve Isakowitz said he thinks rapid technology advancements could change the way companies compete for national security space contracts. Isakowitz told SpaceNews in an interview published Tuesday that as new technologies emerge, competition for military space contracts will see a shift away from a model in which a winning vendor can lock, […]

Octo has received a $15 million contract to provide information technology support services to a National Institutes of Health organization that conducts research on arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases. The Reston, Virginia-based IT provider said Tuesday it will help the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases maintain hardware and implement software […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems‘ U.S. business arm a contract to continue developing mission planning software that can operate semi-autonomously. The phase two contract extends BAE’s existing work with Uncharted Software and Carnegie Mellon University to develop the Multi-domain Adaptive Request Service under the Adapting Cross-Domain Kill-Webs program, BAE said Tuesday. […]

Christopher Copeland, a managing director and chief technology officer at Accenture Federal Services, said one of the trends accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic is the emergence of democratized information technology, which is empowering federal employees to optimize their work and advance innovation. Copeland wrote in a guest piece published Tuesday on Government Executive that democratized […]

Spire Global has secured a contract from NOAA to supply the agency with radio occultation weather data that it will use to enhance the accuracy of its national weather prediction models and lessen forecasting uncertainties. The order for Level 0 and Level 1 RO profiles was made under NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Buy Program to […]

Leidos and Intel are collaborating on a platform that supports secure data sharing for contact tracing efforts as part of the latter’s Pandemic Response Technology Initiative.  Intel said Tuesday Leidos’ blockchain-based data security has been integrated with its silicon technology to improve contact tracing on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s MicrobeTrace Next platform. […]

A research from Deloitte‘s artificial intelligence organization and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Technology Engagement Center has shared that government policies could help mitigate AI risks and advance responsible AI application development, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Deloitte AI Institute and C_TEC based the Investing in Trustworthy AI report on a survey of experienced […]

Linda Miller, former deputy executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, has rejoined Grant Thornton to serve as a principal within the professional services firm’s business unit that offers forensic advisory services and helps clients manage fraud risks. She held a similar role at Grant Thornton before her move to PRAC, which provides oversight […]