Ball Aerospace will build, launch and operate a set of 10 experimental space vehicles and ground systems for the Space Development Agency under a $176 million other transaction prototype agreement. The company will integrate government-furnished payloads into the satellites for deployment in 2024 as part of the National Defense Space Architecture Ex...
Paul Strasser, a federal industry executive, has joined Deep Water Point to lead a practice focused on helping small businesses transition from set-aside contracting to full-and-open competition. “Many companies fail upon exiting their respective small business classification unless they are fully prepared,” Mike Mullen, a partner for small busi...
Matt Desch, who has led Iridium Communications as its CEO since 2006, received a recent visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the company’s office in McLean, VA. Garrettson officially presented Matt Desch with his 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon). “Matt’s busine...
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...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Doug Wagoner, president and CEO of LMI, as a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, the third time he has received the most important award in government contracting, for his visionary leadership to significantly drive company growth and expand technological capabilities for its federal portfolio. Visit Wash100.com to ca...
The Space Development Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and York Space Systems prototype agreements valued at approximately $1.8 billion combined to build and demonstrate 126 satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The Tranche 1 Transport Layer is exp...
Amentum has agreed to acquire PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.9 billion as part of efforts to establish a technology services provider serving U.S. federal agencies and allied governments. PAE’s board of directors approved the transaction that is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of...
Jim Blankenhorn, senior vice president of operations at Amentum and a retired U.S. Army brigadier general, has been appointed to serve as head of the company’s technical services business starting Monday. In his new role, Blankenhorn will manage an organization that works with government and commercial clients to operate complex facilities, Am...
Thomas Huber, formerly a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, has been named executive vice president and chief transformation officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY). He will lead a company-wide initiative, dubbed 1MPACT, to create value for customers and shareholders over the next five years, Mercury Systems said Tuesday. ...
John Vollmer, CEO of Amentum and six-time Wash100 Award recipient, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award during a recent visit to Amentum by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award. “Since emerging as a driving force following AECOM’s acquisition of URS and installing John Vollmer and the current senior team,...
