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...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Raj Iyer, chief information officer (CIO) for the U.S. Army, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for driving new information technology (IT) initiatives, introducing advanced modernization priorities and preparing the service branch to compete in the future of digital warfare. This marks Iyer’s first Wash100 Aw...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected the research teams that will work to meet the research objectives of a program that seeks to develop semantic technology platforms designed to automate the detection, characterization and attribution of falsified media assets. Kitware, SRI International, Purdue University and the University ...
Joseph Cubba, formerly senior partner and vice president for defense and intelligence at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been named chief growth officer of ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT). He will report directly to ManTech Chief Operating Officer Matt Tait and be responsible for strategic growth efforts across the federal civilian, defense and intelligen...
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that would direct a 100-day review of supply chains as part of efforts to address the global shortage of semiconductors, CNBC reported Wednesday. The move comes after congressional members and industry leaders warned about the potential implications of the chip shortage. The EO directs heads of...
Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, has earned his seventh consecutive Wash100 Award for his leadership and commitment to the government contracting (GovCon) community through 2020 and the future of the federal sector heading into 2021. Visit ExecutiveBiz to read Desch’s full 2021 Wash100 profile. You can cast your TEN votes for your favo...
