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Thursday , April 1 2021 Executive Mosaic POC GovCon Wire ExecutiveGov GovConExec GovConVideo Weekly Round-Up covers emerging companies in Washington's government contracting sector. News Education Philanthropy Executive Spotlight Big Data & Analytics C4ISR Healthcare IT Technology Cybersecurity Wash100 Advertise Breaking News Maximus Appoints Teresa Weipert as General Manager of Federal Services Segment; Bruce Caswell Quoted Glenn Goodman Appointed SVP, GM of Alion’s LVC Solutions Group; Steve Schorer Quoted Chris Brady, President of General Dynamics Mission Systems, Named to 2021 Wash100 Award for Driving Industry Partnerships; Securing Major Contracts General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic Receives Seventh Wash100 Award BWXT Secures NASA Contract to Continue Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Work Deloitte Named AWS’ Tech, Consulting Partner for Mainframe Migration ASRC Federal Subsidiary to Support Space Launch System Under NASA Agreement Raytheon Books Air Force Contract for High-Energy Laser Weapon Delivery Maryland Human Services Department Taps ICF for Customer Support Services Gartner Survey: 55% of CIOs Eye Full-Time Workforce Expansion for Security Operations, Analytics Maximus Appoints Teresa Weipert as General Manager of Federal Services Segment; Bruce Caswell Quoted William McCormick April 1, 2021 Executive Moves , News Maximus announced on Thursday its appointment of Teresa “Terry” Weipert as general manager of the company’s U.S. Federal Services Segment. Weipert will replace the retiring previous Wash100 Award recipient Thomas Romeo . Romeo will stay with the company until July to assist with the transition and then serve on Maximus’ advisory board. Read More » Glenn Goodman Appointed SVP, GM of Alion’s LVC Solutions Group; Steve Schorer Quoted William McCormick April 1, 2021 Executive Moves , News , Technology Alion Science and Technology announced on Thursday that Glenn Goodman has been appointed the company’s senior vice president and general manager for its newly created LVC Solutions Group (LSG). “Demand is great to provide sophisticated integrated LVC solutions for all U.S. Armed Services and our Allies to ensure combat readiness and anticipate new threats for today’s and tomorrow’s missions,” said Goodman. Read More » Chris Brady, President of General Dynamics Mission Systems, Named to 2021 Wash100 Award for Driving Industry Partnerships; Securing Major Contracts William McCormick April 1, 2021 News , Technology , Wash100 Executive Mosaic is honored to present Chris Brady , president of General Dynamics Mission Systems , as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for driving the business unit’s growth by leading valuable industry partnerships and securing profitable contracts, which has expanded GDMS’ influence in the federal marketplace. This marks Brady’s second consecutive Wash100 Award . Read More » General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic Receives Seventh Wash100 Award William McCormick April 1, 2021 News , Technology , Wash100 Phebe Novakovic , chairwoman and CEO of General Dynamics , has been named a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for her leading company initiatives in meeting federal government requirements and helping defend national security interests. Executive Mosaic congratulates General Dynamics and Phebe Novakovic for her 2021 Wash100 Award. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for Phebe Novakovic. Read More » BWXT Secures NASA Contract to Continue Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Work William McCormick April 1, 2021 Contract Awards , News , Technology BWX Technologies announced on Thursday that NASA has awarded its subsidiary, BWXT Advanced Technologies , a one-year $9.4 million contract to continue its Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) design, manufacturing development and test support work. The contract builds on BWXT’s work that started in 2017. Read More » Deloitte Named AWS’ Tech, Consulting Partner for Mainframe Migration Nichols Martin April 1, 2021 News , Technology Deloitte has been designated a technology and consulting partner for Amazon Web Services ' mainframe migration competency . Deloitte said Wednesday its business operations and consulting services, development operations, security and the innoWake automation platform help customers migrate mainframe workloads to the AWS cloud. Read More » ASRC Federal Subsidiary to Support Space Launch System Under NASA Agreement Nichols Martin April 1, 2021 News , Technology Arctic Slope Technical Services, a subsidiary of ASRC Federal , has agreed to help NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center augment and further mature a rocket that would fly astronauts to space for future exploration missions. ASTS will use an engineering toolkit to conduct an artificial intelligence-driven analysis of engine and vehicle data sets to determine the failures, oddities and trends surrounding the Space Launch System , ASRC Federal said Wednesday. Read More » Raytheon Books Air Force Contract for High-Energy Laser Weapon Delivery Brenda Marie Rivers April 1, 2021 Contract Awards , News A Raytheon Technologies business has received a $15.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Lifecycle Management Center to provide a modified version of the company’s high-energy laser weapon system . Raytheon Intelligence and Space said Wednesday it secured the award through the System of Systems Consortium and will supply HELWS to AFLCMC, which will then evaluate the weapon's potential to help air bases target threats such as unmanned aerial vehicles. Read More » Maryland Human Services Department Taps ICF for Customer Support Services Matthew Nelson April 1, 2021 Contract Awards , News ICF has landed a two-year, $11 million contract extension from the Maryland Department of Human Services to continue the provision of customer support services to various programs in a move to help the state's residents secure access to shelter, food and other basic needs. Read More » Gartner Survey: 55% of CIOs Eye Full-Time Workforce Expansion for Security Operations, Analytics Brenda Marie Rivers April 1, 2021 News A new survey from Gartner has found that fifty-five percent of chief information officers are looking to increase the number of its full-time information technology employees throughout the year. Gartner said Wednesday that CIOs are more likely to increase the number of FTEs working on emerging technology programs. Read More » Analysts Say Increase in Federal Cloud Spending Bodes Well for AWS Jane Edwards April 1, 2021 News , Technology Adam Selipsky, former president and CEO of Tableau Software, is set to succeed Andy Jassy as CEO of Amazon Web Services in May and will return to AWS as analysts predict further growth for the company driven by a potential increase in federal spending on cloud contracts, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. “I believe that AWS will increase its footprint by 25% to 30% over the next 12 to 18 months, given the federal opportunities,” said Dan Ives, a technology, internet and media analyst at investment firm Wedbush Securities. “We believe that this is a golden age within federal cloud." Read More » GreyNoise Intelligence, DIU Form Partnership to Augment DOD Investigations Matthew Nelson April 1, 2021 News GreyNoise Intelligence has entered into an agreement with the Defense Innovation Unit to help the Department of Defense explore scan and attack activities across the internet. GreyNoise said Wednesday it will use its offering to mitigate false positives and internet noise in an effort to optimize DOD investigations. Read More » Juniper’s Tom Van Meter Recommends Approaches to Enhancing Federal IT Security Matthew Nelson April 1, 2021 News Tom Van Meter , federal systems engineering director at Juniper Networks , said the federal government could strengthen the security of its information technology through implementation of zero trust architecture, supply chain defense and security assurance certifications as well as compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Techn...