Michael Hardesty is the corporate vice president, controller and chief accounting officer at defense contractor Northrop Grumman. He joined the company in 2004. In his current leadership role, Hardesty serves as a financial adviser to senior management and the board of directors’ audit committee. He leads Northrop’s corporate accounting policies and operations. The chief accounting […]
Kevin Schemm is the senior vice president of enterprise finance at aerospace company Boeing. He is also a member of the company’s executive council. As enterprise finance SVP, Schemm leads the company’s business unit finance teams and the global finance operations team. He also oversees financial planning and analysis and leads investor relations. As a […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded software company Cognosante a $545 million task order for supply chain management product line DevSecOps and integration services. The contract has a base year and four option years. Cognosante will develop, deliver and sustain the Supply Chain Management Product line, which handles medical logistics across the VA enterprise. […]
The Department of the Navy has moved 472,000 users to DOD365, a collaboration platform that is based on the Microsoft Office 365 offering. According to a Navy spokesperson, all enabled accounts that were originally intended to have access to the “Flank Speed” collaboration capabilities in the fiscal year 2021 can now use the DOD365 platform. […]
President Joe Biden has nominated U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, the current director of intelligence at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. If confirmed, he will replace Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, who has been serving as NGA director since 2019. Whitworth is a veteran officer who served […]
The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Security Agency have warned organizations about Russian cyber threats amid the ongoing tension at the Russia-Ukraine border. According to a joint advisory released on Tuesday, Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat actors use common attacks like spearphishing and vulnerabilities exploitation to gain initial access to […]
NASA has appointed Katherine Calvin as chief scientist and senior climate adviser. In her new role, Calvin will serve as the principal adviser to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency leaders on science programs, strategic planning and policy. She will also represent the space agency’s objectives and contributions to the international community. Calvin’s appointment […]
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is seeking to reform the Federal Information Security Modernization Act to assign clear roles and responsibilities for federal cybersecurity leadership. The draft reform bill for FISMA was released on Tuesday. Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said during a hearing that reforming FISMA will ensure that intellectual property, sensitive data, essential […]
Geospatial analytics company HawkEye 360 has secured a $15.5 million U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract for radio frequency analytics research and development and space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance architecture support. Under the contract, HawkEye 360 will offer personnel, tools and other required resources to support data collection, ingestion and analysis. The company will also […]
Peter Doran is the senior director of market research at ICF International. He has been with the company since 2004. Doran is in charge of the Corporate Growth Market Research and Analysis Group at ICF. The organization offers consulting services at all levels of government and supports ICF’s business development efforts in the U.S. and […]
