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Donna Bennett, enterprise chief information security officer of the State Department, said that safeguarding information is the organization’s “top priority” and it has undertaken a “monumental effort” to fortify its cyber defenses and consolidate its array of networks to keep pace with the increasingly digital threat environment. Ben...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a potential one-year, $650.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the production and delivery of 15 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band ship sets. The Department of Defense said Thursday 11 of the lot 3 low-rate initial production NGJ-MB ship sets will go to the Navy and the rest...
In light of recent advancements in autonomous technologies, the Department of Defense has made tremendous efforts to understand the role of these tools in warfighting operations and fully harness the benefits autonomy can provide. When implementing these technologies, cultivating a relationship between human operators and new technology is cruc...
The State Department has approved a potential $350 million foreign military sale of equipment and services to refurbish Bahrain’s AH-1W attack helicopter fleet. Bell, a subsidiary of Textron (NYSE: TXT), will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed deal covering the refurbishment of 24 AH-1W excess defense articles, a full-motion tra...
European company SES and U.S.-based Intelsat are in talks about a “possible combination” of the two satellite service industry players, the Luxembourg-headquartered satellite telecommunications provider confirmed Wednesday amid reports of the potential multi-billion transaction. According to Bloomberg News, the companies are nearing a de...
The Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, better known as JADC2, has been an enigmatic and historically disparate effort across the defense landscape since its conception. But in 2022, the initiative took a little more shape as the DOD released its JADC2 strategy and implementation plan. Now, as JADC2 begins...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to recognize the achievements and impact of Baird Managing Director Jean Stack with the 2023 Wash100 Award. Stack demonstrated immense contributions to the government contracting world throughout the course of the last year, in the form of overseeing major mergers and acquisitions deals and organizing pivo...
In February of last year, the Department of Defense identified microelectronics as one of its 14 critical technology areas of focus. Since then, the federal government has taken steps to rejuvenate this industry within the U.S., most notably with the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, which aims to rebuild the domestic semiconductor manufact...
Given its role as the organization responsible for helping the U.S. Department of Defense bring in and implement commercial technologies, the Defense Innovation Unit was among the first DOD entities to take up the fast follower strategy. The fast follower approach holds that government and research organizations should, rather than focus on their ow...
Julie Jarrell Gresham, deputy chief counsel at HII (NYSE: HII) since October 2021, has been promoted to succeed George Simmerman Jr. as vice president and chief counsel of the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division. Simmerman is set to retire from HII at the end of March after a 32-year career, the military shipbuilder said Friday. Gresham...
