As a program manager and engineer in the U.S. Air Force, Rocky Thurston gained the skills he needed to transition smoothly into government contracting. His first work in the field was as a program manager for an intelligence community contract at Booz Allen Hamilton, after which point he took on more assignments and learned and...
Van Gurley’s successful career in government contracting might appear largely happenstance. “I typically said yes and would walk through that door even when I wasn’t sure what was on the other side of it,” Gurley told us about opportunities he encountered that proved invaluable later in his career. He began his working life as a...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The Department of Defense has been battling digital threats for decades, striving to fortify the defense industrial base. To achieve this, numerous cybersecurity requirements have been introduced for organizations that process or store controlled unclassified information, or CUI. Among these req...
At the end of 2023, Steve Harris became the president and general manager of the newly established public sector business unit at Alteryx, a data science and analytics tools provider in the GovCon market. Executive Mosaic recently sat down with Harris, a six-time Wash100 Award winner, to learn more about how artificial intelligence is shaping the...
Executive Mosaic has elected Young Bang, U.S. Army principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, as one of its first-time winners of the Wash100 Award for 2024. The recognition underscores how his endorsement of artificial intelligence, automation and digital engineering supported the integration of cutting-edge tec...
Executive Mosaic has named General Dynamics Mission Systems President Chris Brady to the 2024 Wash100 list of commendable government contracting leaders for the fifth consecutive year. The award recognizes Brady’s leadership of the General Dynamics subsidiary which saw the company continuing its military mission support efforts through signifi...
Julie Clark, a business development executive, has joined IPT Associates as vice president of business development and capture. She announced the move in a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. Clark previously served as senior VP of business development at BTAS, a woman-owned information technology services provider supporting defense and federal civi...
The Department of Defense's Office of Inspector General revealed in an audit that the Pentagon had an incomplete list of its financial management systems and inadequate plans for system compliance and recommended for DOD to identify the financial management systems it will have when it becomes compliant with the Federal Financial Management Imp...
Zaki Saleh currently serves as senior vice president of the health and civilian market at LMI, where he leads profit and loss and growth efforts for the sector. Saleh recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview with GovCon Wire, where he shared his insights on generative artificial intelligence and large language models and discussed ...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet Unanet and CohnReznick recently released the seventh annual GAUGE Report, a report that surveys top government contracting (GovCon) executives to identify industry trends and benchmarks. The 2023 GAUGE Report (which you can download for free), found that while GovCon executives ...
