ExecutiveBiz News on Video 4/14/2022

Jon Steinbach, president of Federal Solutions for Halcyon, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s anti-ransomware engine and its role to fill the gaps that modern defensive cyber solutions have been unable to address. In addition, Steinbach also discussed the most critical cybersecurity challenges facing the federal sector as well as how Halcyon is driving its workforce for long-term success during […]

Mike Thomson assumed the roles of president and chief operating officer at Unisys following the company’s appointment of Debra McCann, former treasurer and senior vice president at Dun & Bradstreet, as executive VP and chief financial officer. Unisys said Thursday with McCann taking over Thomson’s EVP and CFO responsibilities, the latter is now tasked to […]

KBR has received a $62 million award to assist U.S. Army program offices with research and analysis over a five-year period. Under the recompete task order, KBR’s team will offer lifecycle development, testing and engineering services to the Army Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions Project Office and Strategic and Operational […]

Private equity firm Godspeed Capital Management has invested in Huckabee to establish the latter as a growth platform focused on providing architectural, engineering and consulting services to education and government markets. Fort Worth, Texas-based Huckabee is an education architectural design firm founded in 1967 and has more than 240 employees across six offices focused on […]

Iron Mountain will continue modernizing the records of the Department of the Treasury under an award for the second phase of the microfilm digitization and data extraction initiative. The Boston, Massachusetts-based enterprise information management company said Wednesday it was awarded a $6.8 million phase 2 contract to digitize Treasury documents using its artificial intelligence/machine learning-powered […]

Lesta Brady, director of federal civilian sales at Google’s cloud business, said the use of Google Cloud and Google Earth Engine, a platform meant for Earth science data and analysis, helped the U.S. Forest Service at the Department of Agriculture analyze a decade’s worth of land-cover changes within an hour. The Forest Service developed new […]

The Office of Naval Research has awarded Martin Defense Group a $15 million contract to develop a system for delivering fuel to the U.S. Marine Corps’ expeditionary advanced base operations. Martin Defense will aim to mature autonomous technology as part of the Amphibious Vehicle for Unmanned Surface Mobility program, the Department of Defense said April […]

A Parsons company recently finished the critical design review of a directed energy system meant to use high-power microwaves to disable small boats during defense and homeland security missions. The milestone allows Polaris Alpha Advanced Systems to proceed with the integration of a full prototype microwave technology for an operational utility assessment onboard a maritime […]

A Department of Defense office has cleared the final step in an environmental impact study process to push forward a program aimed at developing a mobile microreactor for generating advanced nuclear power to meet growing energy requirements. The Strategic Capabilities Office published a Record of Decision for Project Pele and will begin construction and testing […]

An Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer built by HII for the U.S. Navy has sailed from the Ingalls Shipbuilding location to prepare for its commissioning ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina, in May. The shipbuilder said Wednesday Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) is the 33rd ship it constructed for the destroyer fleet of the Navy and […]