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James Clapper, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and a former director of national intelligence, has been named to LookingGlass Cyber Solutions' advisory board.
Mitre and Purdue University have partnered to conduct joint research and development efforts in a range of areas including cybersecurity, quantum computing, microelectronics, hypersonics and autonomy.
L3Harris Technologies has partnered with NASA to provide communications link technology for the Perseverance rover starting from its landing on Mars through the rest of the robotic vehicle's 10-year lifespan.
Mark Gerencser, chairman of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, and Gen. Joseph Votel, president and chief executive officer of BENS, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz on the Commission on the National Response Enterprise: A Call to Action†report to identify ways to improve national resilience in responding to sustained, nation-wide emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Executive Mosaic is pleased to name George Wilson, president of ECS Federal, as an inductee into the 2021 Wash100 Award for his continued efforts to drive expansion of the company's footprint in the government contracting sector with contract awards, acquisitions, partnerships and executive hires. This marks the fourth consecutive Wash100 Award for Wilson.
Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft Technology, has won his seventh consecutive Wash100 Award in 2021 for leading company growth, driving cloud solutions and expanding information technology (IT) capabilities through valuable partnerships. “Craig has a formula that works and is a measurement fanatic. Abod follows the old saw, ‘what gets measured gets done," said Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award.Â
KBR has been awarded a five year, $92.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide engineering, integration and sustainment services on counter unmanned air systems (C-UAS) for the Combat Integration & Identification Systems unit within the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). "Our work through this new win will have wide-reaching impacts within the DOD," said Byron Bright, president of KBR Government Solutions and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient.
Savannah River National Laboratory secured contracts worth $8.6 million from the Department of Energy to conduct research and development efforts for chemical processing and drying.
The Northrop Grumman-built SharkSat payload collected and transmitted performance and telemetry data back to mission controllers while orbiting the Earth during a two-week demonstration aboard the company’s Cygnus spacecraft in January. “SharkSat’s success directly reflects the speed and agility that our team put forth to deliver mission success,†said Candace Givens, vice president of payload and ground systems division at Northrop.
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program management office released a white paper that outlines a threat-based scoring approach for authorization processes and asked for industry feedback and comments.
Aerojet Rocketdyne has secured a contract to provide the Department of Energy with two units of thermoelectric generators designed for deep space missions. The company said Friday it will fabricate, deliver and test a couple of Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators that would support possible missions to explore Saturn’s moon Titan and Neptune’s largest moon Triton.Â
Kevin Thomas, a cybersecurity expert who held roles at Science Applications International Corp. and Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined Alpha Omega Integration to serve as vice president of cybersecurity services. He assumed his new role at Alpha Omega in January, bringing over 17 years of experience in operational and consulting cybersecurity and in information technology and business management fields, the company said Friday.
