President Joe Biden plans to appoint Renee Wegrzyn as the first director of the newly established Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. Wegrzyn currently serves as vice president of business development at Ginkgo Bioworks and head of innovation at Concentric by Ginkgo. At Concentric, she is focused on using synthetic biology to combat infectious diseases […]
Tactical Air Support has selected Garmin International’s G3000 integrated flight deck to support the Department of Defense’s F-5N+/F+ aircraft modernization program. Garmin will provide the hardware under an Avionics Reconfiguration and Tactical Enhancement/Modernization for Inventory Standardization contract awarded to Tactical Air. The G3000 will be part of the upgraded F-5 Advanced Tiger, which will be […]
The U.S. Army has granted Iron Bow Technologies a three-year assess-only authority to operate, allowing the technology solutions provider to introduce the AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform to the military branch’s operations. Iron Bow is the prime contractor under the Defensive Cyber Operations Threat Emulation program for the delivery of the breach and attack simulation capability, […]
NASA will award funding to space sustainability research proposals from three university-based teams. The space agency believes the studies can help address orbital debris threats to operational spacecraft, national security and the U.S. science and technology enterprise. Selected proposals include using source-sink evolutionary environmental models and an integrated assessment model for constellations and space junk. […]
J. Keith Dunbar is the founder and CEO of FedLearn, which provides artificial intelligence-enabled online courses to the federal government and government contractors. Before launching FedLearn, Dunbar was a managing partner at JKD Talent Solutions, a woman-owned small business whose offerings included solutions for learning and talent development. He also worked as Leidos’ talent management […]
Rick Simmons has served software company Nvidia as market segment sales leader focused on civilian agencies since October 2018. His responsibilities include leading a team of account managers and developing and implementing the company’s go-to-market strategy. He has over 25 years of experience in sales and sales leadership positions at different technology companies and small […]
The Internal Revenue Service’s Enterprise Digitalization and Case Management Office has selected Brillient to provide a digital mailroom solution. According to Ed Burrows, vice president of intelligent solutions at Brillient and a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, the company will combine its digitalization capabilities with mail processing technology to deliver the requirement. Work will be […]
The Department of Homeland Security seeks to hire hundreds of technologists to digitize services and make them more accessible to the public. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the hiring initiative aims to improve customer experience. The agency does not require previous government experience but is interested in individuals with product management and customer experience expertise, […]
Jude Sunderbruch has taken the role of executive director at the DOD Cyber Crime Center. He moved to DC3 after serving the Air Force Office of Special Investigations as executive director for over three years. At DC3, Sunderbruch will lead a staff of more than 400 civilian, military and contractor personnel that support Department of […]
The General Services Administration will continue accepting responses to its first two Polaris small business pool requests for proposals until. Sept. 23, the fifth extension since the GSA released the updated Polaris RFP in May. Polaris is a governmentwide IT acquisition vehicle that will enable agencies to acquire customized IT services and IT services-based solutions, […]
