Jane Rathbun, deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy for information warfare and enterprise services, and Office of Naval Research Global Executive Director Matt Farr will join a panel discussion at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Navy Forum on May 12. Rathbun concurrently serves as the Department of the Navy chief technology officer and...
The U.S. Army has established final requirements for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program after conducting final design and risk review activities in December, Defense News reported Tuesday. The service branch’s Requirements Oversigt Council convened last week to finalize the Abbreviated Capabilities Development Document which de...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award, this year’s highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership and innovation in COVID-19 research and development programs as well as his drive to assist in the pandemic’s relief efforts for...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has proposed its F100-PW-229 engine for the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F-15EX fighter aircraft. Pratt & Whitney’s proposal is for lots 2 through 9 of the service’s engine procurement schedule, the company said Wednesday. F100 has logged more than 28 milli...
Matthew Travis, former deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will serve as the first CEO of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body starting April 1. CMMC-AB said Monday that Travis will lead day-to-day operations of CMMC-AB in line with the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity vetting ...
Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, was presented his seventh consecutive Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), on March 19th during a visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for Matt Desch as the most significant executive of consequence to the GovCon sec...
New York-based Investment advisory company MSD Partners has signed an agreement to become an investor in Woolpert to help drive the latter’s next phase of growth across the architectural, engineering and geospatial areas. Woolpert said Thursday that Long Point Capital will exit its investment in the Dayton, Ohio-based company as part of t...
Alfred Grein, acting director of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, said the branch received four prototypes of its Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light platform from a QinetiQ North America–Pratt Miller partnership, Defense News reported Wednesday. He told attendees at an Association of the U....
The U.S. Air Force has named Boeing (NYSE: BA), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) to its list of sources that could support the service’s plan to rapidly prototype a stand-in attack weapon within 60 months. SiAW is an air-to-ground weapon system that c...
Tony Frazier, executive vice president for global field operations at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the board of directors of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM). He will provide strategic oversight support for the Iridium enterprise as a board member, the communications satellite operator said Tues...
