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Jim Garrettson Announces 2019 Wash100 Winners During Defense Research & Development Summit
During the Potomac Officers Club's 5th annual Defense Research & Development Summit on Tuesday, Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, made the following announcement:
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Carahsoft Makes 2018 List of ‘Largest’ Private Companies in DC Metro Area; Craig Abod Quoted
Carahsoft Technology has landed a spot on the Washington Business Journal’s 2018 list of top 100 privately held companies in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, ranked by total revenue during the previous fiscal year. The company said Tuesday it recorded $4.4B in 2017 bookings and saw the number of its employees increase to more than 900 […] More
Raytheon Gets Foreign Gov’t Cyber Support Contract; Dave Wajsgras Quoted
Raytheon has landed a multiyear contract to provide cybersecurity services and associated support to an unnamed government client in the Middle East and North Africa region. The company said Monday it will also conduct training, operational, sustainment and knowledge transfer efforts under the contract. “We are honored to have been selected as a trusted cybersecurity […] More
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AWS’ Teresa Carlson: Public Sector Needs ‘Cutting-Edge’ Tools
Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a four-time Wash100 awardee, has emphasized the company’s work with government clients to help them implement technology that can aid their missions, FedScoop reported Tuesday. “They need to have the most innovative and cutting-edge tools they can,” Carlson was quoted as saying. She noted […] More
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Jack London: CACI Lead Director Warren Phillips Selected to Directorship 100 List
Warren Phillips, lead board director at CACI International, has been selected for the National Association of Corporate Directors’ 2018 Directorship 100 list. The company said Tuesday NACD will honor Phillips at a ceremony that is scheduled to take place Nov. 28 in New York City and feature him in the November/December edition of the association’s magazine. His selection to […] More
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Raytheon Pledges to Expand Workforce Programs Amid Trump Initiative to Support Economy
Raytheon has announced that it will take part in a Trump administration initiative to invest in current and future talent in the manufacturing, engineering and technical fields to support the American economy. As part of the effort, Raytheon will expand work-based learning, education, on-the-job training and re-skilling programs in the aerospace and defense sectors, the […] More
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PwC Public Sector Rebrands as ‘Guidehouse’ Under Veritas Ownership
The PwC Public Sector business acquired by investment firm Veritas Capital in May now operates under the name Guidehouse, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Guidehouse’s website says the company will offer technology, management and strategy consulting services to multiple sectors that include the defense, national security and state and local government markets. The consulting firm is led […] More
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Carahsoft to Distribute Feature Labs’ Data Science Automation Tools to Public Sector; Craig Abod Interviewed
Carahsoft Technology and Feature Labs have partnered to market the latter’s products designed to help government customers create and deploy machine learning models to automate the data science process. Feature Labs said Thursday it developed tools and application programming interfaces for agency data scientists and software engineers to manage data sets and identify key insights. The software […] More
Executive Spotlight: Interview With Steve Harris, SVP & GM at Dell EMC Federal
ExecutiveBiz spoke with Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager, and a three-time consecutive Wash100 winner, about Dell EMC Federal’s multi-cloud services and what lies ahead for government information technology modernization. “We recognize cloud not as a destination, but as a delivery model. Cloud isn’t the goal, the goal is getting information into the […] More
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Lockheed to Help U.K. Build Spaceport, Cubesat Launcher; Rick Ambrose Comments
Lockheed Martin has secured two contracts worth up to $31 million combined to help the U.K. space agency build a small satellite deployment platform and a launch site, Space News reported Tuesday. The first contract instructs Lockheed Martin to support Scottish government agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise in establishing a vertical launch spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland. The […] More
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Lockheed Tests 3D-Printed Satellite Fuel Tank; Rick Ambrose Comments
Lockheed Martin has completed the final set of quality tests on a titanium cylinder built using 3D printing technology for satellite fuel storage, concluding a multiyear development project. The fuel tank consists of two domes that function as caps, and a variable-length, traditionally-manufactured titanium cylinder that serves as the body, Lockheed said Wednesday. “Our largest 3D printed […] More