Industry

Light Brigade, Kent, Washington, has appointed Sean Kelly as technical director.

DoIT International, Santa Clara, California, has named John Purcell as chief product officer.

Competition in the information domain does not happen nationally. It happens locally, said Ben Leo, CEO and co-founder of Fraym, an international open-source intelligence and data analytics company.

“Competition in the information domain simply doesn’t happen at the national level. It happens in communities, neighborhoods, and even down to individual households or homes,” Leo said during a SIGNAL Executive Video Series discussion with Robert K. Ackerman, SIGNAL Magazine’s editor in chief.

Government Tactical Solutions (GovTact), Vienna, Virginia, has hired Mark Carnahan as chief technology officer.

The U.S. Navy is looking for speed—not faster platforms or vehicles but innovation. Introducing new capabilities into the force rapidly is vitally important to maintaining the combat edge necessary to deter or defeat adversaries who are building up steam in their efforts to confront the U.S. military.

Accomplishing this task will require tapping industry for novel information technology advances and ensuring its success may entail working with the commercial sector to steer it into the right areas to suit naval needs. Ultimately, software-defined systems may hold the key to staying ahead of the deployment curve in technology-based systems.

OM Group Inc., Reston, Virginia, has hired Aaron Tilock as vice president of strategic growth.

CERBAIR, Montrouge, France, has named Charles-Hubert Dufour as chief commercial officer.

Port53 Technologies, San Francisco, has appointed Bill Parmelee as vice president of cyber services.

Data Systems Analysts Inc. (DSA), Fairfax, Virginia, has named Alvie Johnson senior vice president of business development.

Scott Gilson joins Infinity Systems Engineering, Colorado Springs, Colorado, to serve as vice president of market development.

On October 20, the Defense Department announced an $87 million, seven-year award to the Bio-Industrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (BioMADE), a nonprofit created by the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, for a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII). BioMADE, headquartered at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, will collaborate with public and private entities to advance sustainable and reliable bio-industrial manufacturing technologies, according to a DOD statement.

Arcserve LLC, Mineapolis, has appointed Ivan Pittaluga as chief technology officer.

David McGill has joined Avineon Inc., McLean, Virginia, as vice president, growth operations.

OBXtek Inc., McLean, Virginia, has promoted Tim Pleus to chief growth officer.

DTS, Arlington, Virginia, names Derek Kernus to support business development and information technology operations.

SES, Luxembourg, has named Thai Rubin as chief legal officer.

MicroTech, Tysons, Virginia, has appointed Maj. Gen. Kirk Vollmecke, USA (Ret.), as chief operating officer.

Intelligent Waves LLC, Reston, Virginia, has appointed Tony Crescenzo as president.

Red Hat Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, has named Paul Cormier as president and CEO.

Blue Ridge, Atlanta, has named Maarten Baltussen general manager of Europe.

Experts agree that reopening the United States requires contact tracing—working out, when someone has tested positive for COVID-19, who they might have infected already. Contact tracing, like any kind of detective work, is ultimately a very human undertaking. It’s a labor intensive, empathetic process of walking people back through the last few days of their lives and helping them remember who they might have been in close enough contact with to infect.

You can’t do that with an app—especially one that’s not downloaded by 80 percent of smartphone users, and uses Bluetooth location data that might list someone in an adjacent apartment as a “close contact.”

The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), San Francisco, has named Amy Cadagin as executive director.

Jason Yaley has joined Advanced Concepts and Technologies International LLC, Arlington, Virginia, as corporate chief of staff and senior director of corporate affairs.

HID Global, Austin, has named Bjorn Lidefelt president and CEO.