The U.S. Navy is refocusing its priorities on cultivating and caring for a strong, capable workforce in the midst of a talent shortage crisis plaguing both government and industry. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said the service is working to identify and pursue new ways to meet the evolving and unique needs of today’s sailors, who...
The U.S. Navy is paving new paths toward innovation and getting more creative about how it harnesses new talent while developing and retaining its workforce. Christopher Cleary, principal cyber advisor for the Department of the Navy, said he thinks younger, newer Navy members should be given more responsibility and oversight of long-term initiatives...
As the U.S. Army places heavy emphasis on modernization, service leaders are looking to harness more industry innovations that can help the branch create robust information and data sharing capabilities at a quicker speed. Matt Benigni, chief data officer for the Army Futures Command, said during a recent Dcode webinar that he views digital transfor...
Jonathan Baliff, chairman of the audit committee of Redwire’s (NYSE: RDW) board of directors, has been appointed chief financial officer at the space infrastructure technology company. He succeeds Bill Read, who has served in the CFO role since August 2020 and stepped down nine months after Redwire went public, the company said Wednesday. David Ko...
Paul Meyer, president of Department 22 at Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He said Department 22 was formed in response to customers’ call to boost the speed of innovation amid the Department of Defense’s implementation of its Joint All...
The U.S. government is locking down its focus on cybersecurity and looking toward data and zero trust as key tools in the effort. In January, the Office of Management and Budget released a federal strategy that guides the government’s widespread adoption of zero trust approaches. The Intelligence Community is also drafting a new data strategy...
ExecutiveBiz featured Aaron Butler, vice president of sales for federal civilian at ID Technologies, in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. He discussed the company’s recent growth initiatives and his strategic goals for the rest of the year. Butler also talked about cybersecurity, cyber threats and related rules and regulatio...
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Executive Mosaic, its newsroom, or any of its affiliates) NO T.S.P. FOR THE C.C.P. By Lieutenant General William “Jerry” Boykin, (U.S. Army, Ret.) As things stand now, the people who manage our federal retirement funds will mark Memorial...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will produce a hemisphere configuration of an updated electronic warfare system for the U.S. Navy under a $254.4 million contract option. Naval Sea Systems Command exercised the option as part of the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 3 program, which represents the third effort in a series of AN/SLQ-32...
A team of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business and Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has received a potential $324.5 million contract from the Space Development Agency to build, operate and maintain ground entry points and operations centers for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture. The contract also in...
