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...
Ball Aerospace has appointed three executives to oversee its technological initiatives and tactical solutions and operations strategic capabilities businesses. The company on Thursday named Jack Sauer as vice president and chief technologist, John Martin as VP of operations strategic capabilities and Paula Burns as VP and general manager of tac...
Executive Mosaic is honored to name U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro to the 2023 Wash100 list for spearheading Navy infrastructure modernization initiatives, reforming acquisition processes and driving technology innovation across the service branch. This marks Del Toro’s debut on the Wash100 list, which annually recognizes distinguis...
The Department of Defense plans to explore the potential behind generative artificial intelligence during an upcoming AI conference in June, following a wave of commercial developments in the area. Maynard Holliday, deputy chief technology officer for critical technologies within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineer...
