By Mark Townsend, Vice President of Professional Services at Invicti Security With access to some of the world’s most sensitive and secure data and systems, the U.S. Department of Defense is a natural candidate to lead innovation on zero trust security. To that end, the department has set an ambitious five-year goal to deploy zero...
Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from r...
After a competitive four months and tens of thousands of votes, Executive Mosaic is excited to announce that the winner of the 2023 Wash100 popular vote competition is the resolute Department of Defense cornerstone, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. This year, a staggering nearly 40,000 votes were cast in support of the esteemed recipients of the 2...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) reported $3.7 in sales for the first quarter of 2023 and attributed the 6 percent revenue spike to year-over-year growth in the company’s defense, civil and health business segments. The Reston, Virginia-based company said Tuesday net income for the January-to-March period was $164 million and total backlog stood in t...
Aware (Nasdaq: AWRE) reported $4.3 million in sales for the first quarter of 2023, up 6 percent from a quarter earlier, and attributed software subscription growth to a sequential improvement in the company’s recurring revenue. The authentication software vendor said Tuesday it expects to log total revenue and annual recurring revenue growth o...
General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business will supply Taiwan with four MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned air vehicles under a $217.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The Department of Defense said Monday the sole-source acquisition also covers two certifiable ground control stations, spares and support equipment to be provided over a t...
The Department of Defense’s long-awaited enterprise cloud effort finally got off the ground in December 2022, when four commercial cloud service providers landed a spot on the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. Executive Mosaic spoke with leaders from each of the awardee companies — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) posted $4.5 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2023, up 9 percent from the prior-year period, driven by sales growth across its three business segments. The company said Thursday profit for the quarter was $339 million, compared to the $475 million a year ago and earnings were $1.76 per...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) logged a 10.1 percent year-over-year increase in revenue for the third quarter of its 2023 fiscal year to $1.74 billion, activity the company attributed to organic growth. Profit for the three months ended March 31 rose to $100.7 million from $95.4 million in the prior-year period, while net income on a...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) posted $9.3 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2023, a 6 percent increase from the same period last year, as its defense, mission and space systems business logged higher sales. In its quarterly earnings report released Thursday, Northrop reported an operating income of $947 million and a margin rate...
