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John Mengucci, President and CEO of CACI, Receives First Wash100 Award From Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic
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John Mengucci, President and CEO of CACI, Receives First Wash100 Award From Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic
John Mengucci, President and CEO of CACI, Receives First Wash100 Award From Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International, his first Wash100 Award as a part of the 2020 selection on Friday. 

Executive Mosaic recognizes Mengucci for growing the company’s revenue through valuable contract awards and tactful acquisitions, which has continued to advance the company’s influence in the sector.Mengucci was appointed to his current role in June 2019, succeeding six-time Wash100 Award winner Ken Asbury. 

Since joining the company, Mengucci has led CACI through multiple contract awards, which has cemented the company’s influence within the federal government. 

Most notably, Mengucci helped CACI secure a $1.9 billion contract from U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Nov. 2019. CACI will continue its efforts to modernize the mission-critical systems throughout the year.  

Mengucci also supervised multimillion-dollar contracts to support a range of military missions. In Nov. 2019, CACI secured a potential five-year, $907 million task order to assist U.S. Army personnel’s analysis and management of intelligence that will be used to support the service branch's missions in Afghanistan.

Mengucci will oversee CACI’s implementation of SAFE Agile practices to help AFRL enhance information security and execute new approaches to analyze, access and disseminate data across intelligence community and Air Force domains. The company will also provide support in other areas such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, signals and geospatial intelligence.

Under Mengucci’s lead, the company has utilized its influence and increased revenue for philanthropic initiatives. Mengucci has funded students in their future career. CACI announced in Nov. 2019 that the company has worked to support students through the Ken Asbury Mentorship Program. CACI continues to help students connect with industry professionals and offers internship support for successful candidates.

Executive Mosaic congratulates CACI and John Mengucci for his 2020 Wash100 Award selection. Because of his efforts to advance CACI’s influence in the GovCon sector through major contract awards with various service branches, multiple acquisitions, and humanitarian efforts, proves that Mengucci is a significant figure in the industry. 

About Wash100 

The Wash100 Award, now in its seventh year, recognizes the most influential executives in the GovCon industry as selected by the Executive Mosaic team in tandem with online nominations from the GovCon community. Representing the best of the private and public sector, the winners demonstrate superior leadership, innovation, reliability, achievement and vision.

Visit the Wash100 site to learn about the other 99 winners of the 2020 Wash100 Award. On the site, you can submit your 10 votes for the GovCon executives of consequence that you believe will have the most significant impact in 2020.

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McAleese to Host 11th Defense Programs Conference
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McAleese to Host 11th Defense Programs Conference
McAleese to Host 11th Defense Programs Conference

McAleese & Associates will host its 11th conference on defense programs, March 4, at the Atrium Ballroom of the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. The upcoming event's program has been structured for defense investors, senior industry leaders, congressional staff and Department of Defense officials.

Click here to register and view the list of confirmed speakers.

Jim McAleese, a three-time Wash100 inductee, established his company in 1992 to offer consulting and legal services to government contracting firms.

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Iridium Announces 2019 Financial Results, 2020 Outlook; Matt Desch, 2020 Wash100 Award Recipient, Quoted
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Iridium Announces 2019 Financial Results, 2020 Outlook; Matt Desch, 2020 Wash100 Award Recipient, Quoted
Matt Desch
Matt Desch

Iridium Communications has reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2019 and issued its full-year 2020 guidance on Tuesday.

"2019 was a transformational year for Iridium with the completion of our constellation and the launch of our new Iridium Certus broadband service. These milestones support a new era of technological innovation and growth, and also signal the long-awaited move from capital spending to a sustained period of positive cash flow," said Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium and 2020 Wash 100 Award recipient

Net loss was $107.9 million, or $0.82 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2019, as compared to net loss of $7.6 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2018. The increase is in the result of debt extinguishment costs associated with Iridium's refinancing, as well as higher interest expense, depreciation and amortization expense related to the completion of the Iridium NEXT program. 

Operational EBITDA for the fourth quarter was $80.1 million, as compared to $75.5 million for the prior-year period, representing a year-over-year increase of 6 percent. Commercial service remained the largest part of Iridium's business, representing 64% of the Company's total revenue during the fourth quarter. 

Commercial service revenue was $88.6 million, up 4% from last year's comparable period due primarily to increased revenues from IoT and voice and data services. Government service revenue was $25.0 million and reflected increased revenue from the Company's new EMSS contract with the U.S. government signed in September 2019.

Equipment revenue was $17.1 million during the fourth quarter, down 15% from the prior-year period. This was consistent with the Company's guidance. Engineering and support revenue was $8.3 million during the fourth quarter, up 73% from the prior-year quarter, primarily due to an increase in the volume of contracted work to enable services for the U.S. government.

The company issued its full-year 2020 outlook and reiterated other elements of long-term guidance, including the projected total service revenue growth between 6% and 8% for full-year 2020. Full-year 2020 OEBITDA between $355 million and $365 million. OEBITDA for 2019 was $331.7 million.

Negligible cash taxes in 2020. Cash taxes are expected to be negligible through approximately 2023. Net leverage of approximately 4.0 times OEBITDA at the end of 2020. Net leverage was 4.8 times OEBITDA at December 31, 2019.

About Iridium Communications Inc.

Iridium® is the only mobile voice and data satellite communications network that spans the entire globe.  Iridium enables connections between people, organizations and assets to and from anywhere, in real time. Together with its ecosystem of partner companies, Iridium delivers an innovative and rich portfolio of reliable solutions for markets that require truly global communications.  

In 2019, the company completed a generational upgrade of its satellite network and launched its new specialty broadband service, Iridium Certus.  Iridium Communications Inc. is headquartered in McLean, Va., U.S.A., and its common stock trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol IRDM. 

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Booz Allen Hamilton Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to Provide Cloud Services to Federal Agencies; Osama Malik, Shannon Sullivan Quoted
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Booz Allen Hamilton Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to Provide Cloud Services to Federal Agencies; Osama Malik, Shannon Sullivan Quoted

Booz Allen Hamilton Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to Provide Cloud Services to Federal Agencies; Osama Malik, Shannon Sullivan Quoted

Booz Allen Hamilton has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to improve its cloud services and infrastructure and offer federal customers a suite of cloud-enabled capabilities, the company announced on Tuesday.

“Google Cloud bring[s] the federal government the best technologies to enhance their IT modernization efforts,” said Osama Malik, principal of digital strategy and management at Booz Allen. “Our focus on enhancing the citizen experience through digital platforms, analytics, and search will continue to expand through joining Google’s Cloud Partner Advantage program.”

Booz Allen will utilize its understanding of the federal certification process and clients’ missions to integrate Google Cloud’s infrastructure, analytics and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities. Through the partnership, Booz Allen will gain access to resources, prototypes and training opportunities.

Booz Allen will also be able to share feedback and insights about implementing Google Cloud services in a complex and sensitive government environment. The partnership marks that the firm has now achieved a high level of expertise and proficiency in Google Cloud capabilities.

The company will market its new capabilities to the Federal Government. The firm has already begun leveraging Google Cloud’s cloud platform offerings to meet client missions. Recently Booz Allen utilized Google-based chatbots and AI to enhance the digital citizen experience for Recreation.gov.

In addition, the company announced that it was able to employ Google Cloud to create analytics solutions for clients like USPS and others. The firm also values the cybersecurity tools that Google Cloud offers and Booz Allen plans to expand its capabilities using these tools in the future.

“We’re thrilled to now have Booz Allen as part of our Partner Advantage program,” said Shannon Sullivan, director of federal, Google Cloud. “Citizens expect more personalized experiences from federal agencies across the web, mobile apps, and over the phone. We’re excited to work with Booz Allen to offer solutions that empower agencies to better serve their constituents—and drive true mission success.”

About Booz Allen Hamilton

For more than 100 years, business, government, and military leaders have turned to Booz Allen Hamilton to solve their most complex problems. As a consulting firm with experts in analytics, digital, engineering and cyber, we help organizations transform. We are a key partner on some of the most innovative programs for governments worldwide and trusted by the most sensitive agencies.

We work shoulder to shoulder with clients, using a mission-first approach to choose the right strategy and technology to help them realize their vision. With global headquarters in McLean, Virginia, our firm employs nearly 27,000 people globally, and had revenue of $6.70 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2019.

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Jeff Caporizzo Joins ICF as Executive Creative Director for Government Clients; Mary Schwarz Quoted
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Jeff Caporizzo Joins ICF as Executive Creative Director for Government Clients; Mary Schwarz Quoted
Jeff Caporizzo Joins ICF as Executive Creative Director for Government Clients; Mary Schwarz Quoted

Jeff Caporizzo has been appointed Creative Director of ICF Next, ICF’s integrated marketing and communications services group, to provide creative services for government clients, the company announced on Tuesday.

“Jeff is an industry leader in creative strategy and planning, creative management, marketing, advertising, print and digital design, and social-content development,” said Mary Schwarz, managing partner for ICF Next’s government group. 

Caporizzo will lead ICF Next’s team of storytellers, artists and digital media experts in support of U.S. federal and other public sector clients to design and execute creative work that drives sustained behavior change.

He brings over 25 years of experience to his new role with ICF Next. He served in a variety of senior creative leadership roles with Edelman between Oct. 2013 and June 2019, including group creative director, content group director and executive creative director. 

At Edelman, Caporizzo led a unified cross-media creative team execute both the craft and impact of creative design. He lead the DC Digital Content Studio, leveraging the global online conversation.

Caporizzo has also worked with clients across the industry spectrum, including AHA, CMS, Rockwell Collins, Dannon, ESA, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, VW, Hilton. He developed digital marketing campaigns for the clients with specific emphasis on content across social media channels based on sound insight, strategy, concept and creative.

He has also held leadership positions with Ministers of Design and Bates Creative Group, as the creative director at both companies. At ZilYen, Caporizzo served as vice president and creative director, where he developed brands and exposure for his clients. 

Since Caporizzo began his career at Atelier Creative as a junior designer in 1995, he has continued to advance his creative skillset, leadership and knowledge in the industry. Schwarz concluded, “His formula is simple: Know who you are talking to, inspire them and constantly optimize in the face of new information.”

About ICF Next

ICF Next provides a full suite of marketing and communications services to U.S. government agencies. Working with clients such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, and state and local agencies, ICF Next runs data-driven communications and campaigns to inform and inspire audiences to take action around some of the nation’s most pressing policy issues: tobacco prevention and control, cancer prevention, opioid misuse, adult immunization, underage drinking, HIV/AIDS and diabetes, to name a few.

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SolarWinds Releases Cyber Readiness Report Findings: Including IT Complexity, Insider Threats; Brandon Shopp, Tim Brown Quoted
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SolarWinds Releases Cyber Readiness Report Findings: Including IT Complexity, Insider Threats; Brandon Shopp, Tim Brown Quoted
SolarWinds Releases Cyber Readiness Report Findings: Including IT Complexity, Insider Threats; Brandon Shopp, Tim Brown Quoted

SolarWinds has announced the findings of its sixth annual Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey Report, which has revealed the lack of cyber confidence and organizational maturity across the public sector, the company reported on Tuesday.

“Led only by budget constraints, complexity of internal environments is one of the most significant high-level obstacles to maintaining or improving IT security, and respondents indicated it’s keeping them from easily segmenting users and adopting a zero-trust approach,” said Brandon Shopp, vice president for product strategy at SolarWinds.

The report surveyed 400 IT operations and security decision makers, including 200 federal, 100 state and local, and 100 education respondents. 

SolarWinds has concluded that careless, untrained insiders are the leading source of security threats, followed by budget constraints and complexity, as significant barriers against improving IT security. Fifty-two percent of total respondents cited insiders as the top threat, consistent for both federal, state and local respondents.

The company also cited that respondents generally agreed that cybersecurity maturity requires attention across public sector organizations. Respondents rated the respective agencies maturity at a 3.5 on a scale of one to five. 

In addition, SolarWinds found that less than half of public sector respondents are very confident in their team’s ability to keep up with evolving threats. The vast majority of respondents (86%) rely on in-house staff as their primary security team. Only 41% of this pool feel very confident in their team’s ability to maintain the right skills.

The report noted that the majority of public sector organizations measure the success of the IT security teams by evaluating metrics such as the number of detected incidents (58%) or the team’s ability to meet compliance goals (53%). 

“These results clearly demonstrate the degree to which most public sector organizations are struggling to manage cyber risk,” said Tim Brown, vice president of security for SolarWinds. “It’s therefore no surprise that only four in ten respondents feel very confident their security team can keep up with the evolving threats.”

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. 

The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services

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BlackBerry Introduces CylancePROTECT and CylanceOPTICS to Enhance EPP, EDR Capabilities; Michael Suby, Dominic Grillo, Thomas Pace Quoted
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BlackBerry Introduces CylancePROTECT and CylanceOPTICS to Enhance EPP, EDR Capabilities; Michael Suby, Dominic Grillo, Thomas Pace Quoted
BlackBerry Introduces CylancePROTECT and CylanceOPTICS to Enhance EPP, EDR Capabilities; Michael Suby, Dominic Grillo, Thomas Pace Quoted

BlackBerry Limited has announced new product enhancements to the endpoint protection platform (EPP) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) of the BlackBerry Spark platform, the company reported on Tuesday. 

"The addition of custom role-based access controls to BlackBerry's endpoint protection offering reduces risk by granularly defining and enforcing administrative permissions based on roles within an organization," said Michael Suby, research vice president, Security and Trust Products at IDC.

BlackBerry’s upgraded features include single-agent deployment, custom role-based access controls and accelerated incident investigation to reduce risk from cybersecurity threats with a unified endpoint security (UES) layer, which will deliver zero trust security. 

The single-agent deployment is managed from a central management console, allowing organizations to easily deploy both EPP capabilities with CylancePROTECT and EDR capabilities with CylanceOPTICS, leveraging the results of their security investment.

CylanceOPTICS will improve the threat prevention delivered with CylancePROTECT by utilizing AI to identify and prevent security incidents. BlackBerry customers will gain increased search parameter flexibility, alignment with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and expanded automated response via CAE rules. 

"BlackBerry's AI-driven threat detection provides comprehensive attack surface protection, even against unknown malware," said Dominic Grillo, president at Atrion. "With the lightweight single agent we are able to automate detect and respond capabilities, and drive consistent levels of security throughout the organization."

With the integration, BlackBerry will offer improved registry introspection, DNS visibility, Windows logon event visibility , RFC1918 address space visibility, enhanced WMI introspection via Windows API and enhance PowerShell introspection via Windows API.

"With CylancePROTECT preventing malware, malicious scripts, rogue applications and fileless attacks from harming the business, CylanceOPTICS provides the AI-powered EDR capabilities required to keep data and businesses secure," said Thomas Pace, vice president, Global Enterprise Solutions at BlackBerry Cylance.

About BlackBerry

BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 150M cars on the road today. 

Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear – to secure a connected future you can trust. 

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AT&T Nationwide LTE Coverage Exceeds 2.61M Square Miles, Supporting AT&T and FirstNet Subscribers ; Chris Sambar Edward Parkinson Quoted
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AT&T Nationwide LTE Coverage Exceeds 2.61M Square Miles, Supporting AT&T and FirstNet Subscribers ; Chris Sambar Edward Parkinson Quoted
AT&T Nationwide LTE Coverage Exceeds 2.61M Square Miles, Supporting AT&T and FirstNet Subscribers ; Chris Sambar Edward Parkinson Quoted

AT&T has announced that its LTE nationwide coverage has surpassed over 2.61 million square miles of the nation to support AT&T and FirstNet subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday. 

“We’re on target to add more coverage than them again this year. By expanding our wireless coverage footprint, we’re laying the foundation for 5G, and we’re bringing our nation’s first responders the most expansive dedicated platform with innovative capabilities to strengthen their incident response wherever their mission takes them,” said Chris Sambar, executive vice president, technology and operations, AT&T. 

AT&T’s FirstNet network will boost network capacity and accelerate coverage expansion. It will provide public safety with additional access, including always-on priority and preemption and high-quality Band 14 spectrum to enable faster performance. 

“As more and more public safety agencies turn to FirstNet for their communication needs – from massive events to emergency situations like wildfires and hurricanes – we remain steadfast in our commitment to News Release aggressively expand the network and the innovative solutions first responders depend on. And this is only the beginning.”

Because of the company’s advanced capabilities and expanded network, AT&T has helped to modernize public safety communication and transform emergency reporting and response, creating a more efficient and reliable design. 

AT&T has spearheaded new cost-effective solutions to provide agencies enhanced situational awareness by expanding its deployable program to include a Compact Rapid Deployable (CRD). The smaller portable cell site will simplify deployment in the field, requiring only one person to setup and create  an area of LTE and Wi-Fi coverage.

“AT&T’s recognition as the public safety company of the year is a testament to their ongoing dedication to serving America’s first responders. We look forward to another year of FirstNet expansion with AT&T and the public safety community,” said FirstNet Authority Acting CEO Edward Parkinson. 

About AT&T Communications 

We help family, friends and neighbors connect in meaningful ways every day. From the first phone call 140+ years ago to mobile video streaming, we innovate to improve lives. We have the nation’s fastest wireless network. We’re building FirstNet just for first responders and creating next-generation mobile 5G. 

With a range of TV and video products, we deliver entertainment people love to talk about. Our smart, highly secure solutions serve nearly 3 million global businesses – nearly all of the Fortune 1000. And worldwide, our spirit of service drives employees to give back to their communities.

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BWXT Labels Cold Kits with MO-99, TC-99M Technology; Rex Geveden, Dr. Mihaela Ginj Quoted
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BWXT Labels Cold Kits with MO-99, TC-99M Technology; Rex Geveden, Dr. Mihaela Ginj Quoted
BWXT Labels Cold Kits with MO-99, TC-99M Technology; Rex Geveden, Dr. Mihaela Ginj Quoted

BWX Technologies (BWXT) has successfully labeled technetium-99m (Tc-99m) derived from its proprietary molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) production process and its proprietary Tc-99m generators, utilizing cold kits, the company announced on Tuesday. 

“Our superior technology will improve continuity of supply for this vital diagnostic tool at a lower cost. Previous internal testing had proven that our technology meets the generic product specifications, and these latest results showed that our technology will be a drop-in replacement for existing generator,.” said Rex Geveden, BWXT’s president and chief executive officer.

BWXT will utilize cold kit labeling to achieve regulatory and commercial market acceptance for the company’s Tc-99m generator. The successful kits, which included bicisate, exametazime, macroaggregated albumin, mebrofenin, medronate, mertiatide, sestamibi, sulfur colloid and tetrofosmin, will help improve industry quality control and thin layer chromatography testing 

The company has also completed a variety development activities to improve its manufacturing capacity, including target and target delivery system design, production technology development, development of quality assurance/quality control methods and finalization of facility designs

As BWXT continues to advance its labeling, the company has entered into agreements with other labs to develop and implement new technologies. BWXT recently entered into a reactor services agreement with the University of Missouri to irradiate proprietary BWXT targets in the Missouri University Research Reactor (MURR) for use by BWXT in production of Mo-99. MURR provided the irradiated targets that BWXT used in its successful Tc-99m cold kit labeling.

Dr. Mihaela Ginj, the radiopharmacy operations lead at Toronto General Hospital, part of the University Health Network. “I’m encouraged by this technology and its ability to fit into the existing radiopharmacy and nuclear medicine infrastructure. It allows me to be optimistic about a more diversified and reliable Mo-99 supply for nuclear medicine professionals and patients in North America.’’

About BWXT

At BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT), we are People Strong, Innovation Driven. Headquartered in Lynchburg, Va., BWXTprovides safe and effective nuclear solutions for national security, clean energy, environmental remediation, nuclear medicine and space exploration. With approximately 6,600 employees, BWXT has 12 major operating sites in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, BWXT joint ventures provide management and operations at more than a dozen U.S. Department of Energy and NASA facilities.

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Education Dept Updates Online Federal Student Aid Process
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Education Dept Updates Online Federal Student Aid Process
Education Dept Updates Online Federal Student Aid Process

The Department of Education has updated an online portal built to help U.S. students manage federal loans and grants they have applied for to support their college or career education.

ED said Monday its StudentAid website now features an aid summary that provides information about the type of each loan or grant, when the customers received it, interest rate and repayment plan.

The new tool also works to monitor borrowers' progress toward paying off loans and the number of payments they have made to qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

According to department, the revamped site also has a Loan Simulator platform that offers a comparison between repayment plans and helps a user evaluate which option can work best for them.

The Federal Student Aid office will allow scheduled monthly payments via the site as part of its  Make a Payment pilot program. FSA intends for Direct Loan borrowes to eventually process repayments through the portal.

StudentAid updates are part of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' Next Gen FSA initiative.

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