A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson
All eyes were on Washington today as Donald Trump took the oath of office on Capitol Hill to become the 45th President of the United States and officially usher in a time we all expect to see many changes and shakeups.
The âAppointment Watchâ overviewed in our last edition continued with particular attention on James Mattisâ nomination for defense secretary as the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced him to a full chamber vote a week after both houses approved a waiver for his eligibility.
Lawmaker progress on Mattisâ confirmation dominate the attention of government contracting leaders and observers, who continue to look at this and other appointments for clues on the policy and spending priorities of the Trump administration.
In the midst of this, Executive Mosaic’s organizational and editorial leadership came together to compile our list of the most influential movers and shakers in the GovCon arena for the fourth annual Wash100 list.
Our class of inductees for 2017 represents a cavalcade of individuals from both the public and private sectors we see at the forefront of the events and trends that will shape GovCon from all angles of government and business.
This year stands poised to be one of exciting activity in the GovCon marketplace with opportunities to position for growth and our selections for this year’s Wash100 group represent those individuals we forecast as the most significant contributors to industry activity.
Individuals were selected based on standing and recognition throughout the industry, leadership over their companies or agencies and vision.
Come back to this space again at the same time next week to find out our 2017 Wash100 recipients.
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, chief information officer and director of command, control, communications and computers/cyber at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for spearheading the development of the Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy and leading innovative technology efforts. This marks Crall’s
Chris DeRusha, the new federal chief information security officer (CISO) for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has been selected by Executive Mosaic to receive the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon) for the first time in his federal career. DeRusha has been recognized as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that seeks to address foreign use of infrastructure as a service cloud computing platforms for malicious cyber activities. The order directs the secretary of the Department of Commerce to develop rules within six months to require IaaS providers to verify the identity of foreigners with IaaS accounts