Jake Kennedy, former chief financial officer at Amentum, has been appointed to the CFO post at information technology consulting company Edgewater Federal Solutions. Kennedy has more than three decades of government contracting experience and he will oversee the Edgewater’s finance and accounting departments in his new role, the company said M...
Alissia Lancaster, business operations director of Amentum for the past three years, has been promoted to vice president of financial planning and analysis. She announced her new role in a LinkedIn post Saturday and has nearly two decades of experience in the government contracting industry. Lancaster joined Amentum after the 2020 sale of AECOM̵...
The Space Development Agency has released a draft solicitation for the development of space vehicles, payloads and ground systems for the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. A notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov states that the Tranche 2 Transport Layer program will include three optical communication terminals; Ka-band mi...
Denver-based York Space Systems has won a $200 million other transaction prototype agreement from the Space Development Agency to develop 12 satellites and supporting capabilities for the Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System. The company will conduct experimentation and demonstrate Integrated Broadcast Service and tactical satellite co...
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...
