The Department of Veterans Affairs has named Todd Simpson as deputy assistant secretary and new head of DevSecOps. His main priorities in the said role are software development and cybersecurity. Simpson, who brings almost 30 years of IT management experience to the agency, took his oath before VA chief information officer James Grefer administered, Fedscoop […]
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence has appealed to Congress and the White House to create a Digital Service Academy that would train a new talent pool and develop a reserve corps in artificial intelligence. The commission proposes that Congress approve the initial two-year $40M budget to establish the academy as a self-governing federal […]
Bryan Rich has been serving as managing director and applied intelligence lead at Accenture Federal Services since June 2018. Rich, who brings over 20 years of data science and operational intelligence experience to the role, leads the business unit tasked to sustain and provide advanced analytics and artificial intelligence services to federal government customers, the company […]
Liz Porter serves as the acting president for the health group at Leidos, a role she has held since February 2020. She has been with the company for nearly four years and her current role involves overseeing the group tasked to provide health-related services in IT, population hygiene risk and case management, analytics and life […]
Susan Doniz is Boeing’s chief information officer and senior vice president for IT and data analytics. She joined the aerospace manufacturer in May 2020, succeeding Vishwa Uddanwadiker who had served as interim CIO since October 2019. She oversees the company’s operations in IT, data and analytics and information security. She also assists and sustains the […]
Ritu Chadha serves as senior research director for machine learning and data analytics at Perspecta Labs, a role she has held since June 2018. She is in charge of the company’s basic and applied research programs in artificial intelligence and machine learning with uses in other technologies including wireless networking, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, text […]
Norm Tew serves as vice president and general manager for the missile and weapons systems division at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, a role he has held since March 2018. In the said position, he leads the business unit that manages various programs that offer missile and weapon system services for the domestic and international […]
Richard De Fatta has been serving as senior executive service director for the Future Warfare Center at the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command for more than four years. Since March 2016, he has been overseeing the command’s space and global ballistic missile defense doctrine and training and TRADOC capability managers for space and high […]
Jon Hill has been serving as director at the Missile Defense Agency since May 2019. He leads the agency tasked to design, provide and maintain defense networks and strategies to protect the United States and allied forces from missile attacks. He succeeded Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, who retired on July 1, 2019, after serving […]
Kris Busch serves as vice president and general manager for C4ISR and electronic systems at BAE Systems, a role he has held since July 2014. In the said position, he leads the overall business operations of the unit with more than 1,400 workforce and over 18 support facilities worldwide, according to his Linkedin profile. Busch […]
