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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

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Armesmith was leaving one of the world’s best-known manufacturing companies, Rolls-Royce, where she was head of programs for aviation futures. million, five-year contract from NASA to demonstrate electric propulsion technologies for aircraft, and has branched out to build hydrogen fuel cells as well as electric motors.

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Improving the USMC’s Legacy Logistics System (GCSS-MC): A Business Opportunity

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SSC LANT has been hired by Marine Corps to make this system faster. This includes modernization of GCSS-MC’s engineering, infrastructure, logistics and program management. CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Government Organizations Research GCSS-MC Marine Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command SSC LANT'

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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

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NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. ” NSIN has university program directors at nine other universities. . The company raised a $6.4

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

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For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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27 Jan Webinar With SEI’s Cyber Intelligence Research Consortium: Learn how to have intelligence successes instead of security failures

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A key collector of lessons learned and best practices is the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, who has been applying their community focused talent into building a coalition of researchers and practitioners around this discipline. About the Speakers.

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

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Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.