ExecutiveBiz News on Video 6/8/2022

ECS President John Heneghan, a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the most notable improvements in innovation across the federal sector in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, 5G and other critical emerging technologies. In addition, John Heneghan also discussed the company’s recent growth initiatives to drive value for its customers as well as expand into new […]

CGI has implemented a contract writing system at the Department of Veterans Affairs as part of the latter’s efforts to modernize its financial and acquisition management platforms and transform business operations. The implementation of the CGI Federal-developed Momentum Acquisitions system is the third under the VA’s Financial Management Business Transformation program and works to enable […]

Christopher Ford, former assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation at the State Department, has been named a fellow of Mitre and director of the nonprofit corporation’s newly established Center for Strategic Competition. The Harvard College and Yale Law School graduate worked for Mitre as a distinguished policy adviser prior to the appointment, the organization […]

Northrop Grumman will work with Aeronix to build a Space End Crypto Unit prototype that will link across common architecture weapons systems and other platforms in low-Earth orbit under a Department of Defense contract to support DOD’s goal of connecting the joint force. “Our open architecture space mesh networking prototype enables new capabilities in Space […]

Venus Aerospace, an early-stage, deep technology company, has showcased its first conceptual hypersonic vehicle design envisioned to achieve one-hour global travel at Mach 9 speed. The Houston, Texas-based hypersonic aircraft developer said Tuesday its vehicle engineering team is working on Stargazer, a Mach 9 hypersonic spaceplane whose concept was unveiled during a transportation- and mobility-focused […]

John Bastin, a two-decade sales professional in the public sector, has been named general manager of the government segment at health information technology provider Innovaccer. He will be responsible for driving Innovaccer’s strategy to help public health and social service organizations adopt its unified health data repository called Health Cloud, the company said Tuesday. “I […]

A new Federal Trade Commission analysis has found that consumers said they lost more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency to fraud between January 2021 and March 2022. FTC said Friday bogus investment opportunities have accounted for $575 million of all reported fraud losses involving cryptocurrencies since 2021. After investment scams, romance scams represented $185 million […]

Lockheed Martin has tapped Canadian space technology company MDA to design and develop antennas and related control electronics needed for the low Earth orbit satellites it is producing under a Space Development Agency program. MDA said Tuesday it was awarded a contract that provides for GPS, Ka-Band and Link-16 antennas for 42 Lockheed satellites meant […]

ClearGov, a budgeting software provider to local government agencies, has acquired digital permitting and licensing automation company CityGrows. The acquisition marked ClearGov’s entry into the market for cloud-based software products built to help government personnel simplify their processing of permits and licenses, the company said Tuesday. CityGrows designed its platform for agency employees to manage workflows […]