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is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
Tiffany Goddard, director of customer experience and engagement solutions at Carahsoft Technology, said government agencies looking to improve CX should start with enhancing employee experience. “Employees can be the most underutilized asset for organizations, so it is important for agencies to understand what employees need for peak performance,” Goddard wrote in a blog post published […] More
A General Services Administration report shows that Lockheed Martin, RTX and General Dynamics emerged as the top three vendors that secured the most federal contracting dollars in fiscal year 2022, The Hill reported Friday. Lockheed received $47.7 billion in FY 2022 government contracts, up 13 percent from $42.1 billion in the past fiscal year. Of […] More
Phil Fuster, chief revenue officer at Hitachi Vantara Federal, said federal agencies looking to better defend systems from cybercrimes should foster collaboration with industry and other agencies through sharing of threat intelligence and best practices and establish secure standardized platforms for sharing information. In a Fed Gov Today podcast aired Thursday, Fuster highlighted the need […] More
Aeyon Chief Transformation Officer Mark Hogenmiller said government agencies and corporations are seeing the emergence of the Social, Artificial Intelligence, Governance and Environmental framework, which calls for agency and industry leaders to collaborate to develop, understand and implement standards to advance the ethical use of AI. “By incorporating the SAGE Framework, we can accelerate the […] More
Leidos has received a $36.3 million contract modification to fabricate, test and deliver four development models of a medium unmanned undersea vehicle and related equipment and data to the U.S. Navy. The modification exercises an option on a contract awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command in July 2022 in support of the Razorback UUV and […] More
Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said he considers the potential of generative artificial intelligence as “virtually unlimited,” Nextgov/FCW reported Wednesday. “The only limiting factor may be the data you give it access to,” added Carey, former principal deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee. Carey said […] More
A study by General Dynamics’ information technology business has found that 65 percent of federal agencies said they are adopting artificial intelligence, 5G, machine learning, quantum computing, virtual and augmented reality and other emerging technologies to accelerate digital transformation efforts. GDIT’s digital consulting practice polled 425 defense, intelligence and civilian agency officials for the Seeds […] More
Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP Federal, said government agencies looking to improve customer experience should not only change their mindset but also consider budget, GovLoop reported Tuesday. “Customer experience is defined by money as most experiences are,” said Gardner, a key member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. “Most organizations have more unacceptable risk […] More
Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman will continue to build and conduct additional flight tests of Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept systems powered by scramjet engines under a follow-on contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Raytheon-Northrop team will incorporate production enhancements into the existing HAWC design and validate system capabilities through additional […] More
Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said government agencies seeking to facilitate response to cyber incidents and maintain digital sovereignty should implement a self-hosted technical collaboration platform. Duplantis wrote in a commentary published Monday on Federal News Network that such a collaboration platform could provide organizations […] More
Laura Stanton, a General Services Administration official, said federal agencies have obligated approximately $2.67 billion in total small business subcontracting dollars to date through the Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services. Under Alliant 2, small business subcontracting exceeded the target goal of 50 percent by achieving a rate of 55.5 […] More
Tiffany Goddard, director of customer experience and engagement solutions at Carahsoft Technology, said government agencies seeking to improve CX should monitor customers’ feedback on social media and come up with actionable plans by generating insights from collected data. “Previously thought to be uncorrelated to constructive feedback, agencies are finding that customers use social media as […] More
