David Fields, former senior vice president and general manager of DRS Global Enterprise Solutions, has assumed a new dual role as president and CEO of the government solutions subsidiary at SES following the company’s $450 million acquisition of the former Leonardo DRS business unit. He brings more than two decades of satellite communications and ...
As the U.S. Air Force continues its aggressive pursuit of modernization and prepares for the future fight, the head of the service wants to put words into action and get meaningful military capabilities into the hands of warfighters faster than ever before. “I’m not very interested in experimentations or demos. I’m prepared to accept r...
In many ways, the U.S. General Services Administration effectively serves as the back office of the entire federal government. GSA is the largest property manager in the world, the third largest design and construction company in North America and the third largest fleet manager in the world — the agency even outranks the Smithsonian as...
Matt Hicks was promoted to the roles of president and CEO at Red Hat, where he previously oversaw product strategy and engineering activities as executive vice president of products and technologies. The IBM (NYSE: IBM) subsidiary said Tuesday Hicks took over from Paul Cormier, a more than two-decade Red Hat veteran who was tapped to...
U.S. Army Cyber Command is coordinating with the Army Training and Doctrine Command in the drafting process for a new publication focused on information advantage as a doctrinal concept. ADP 3-13 Information Operations, which is expected to be released soon, will be the key to achieving decision dominance, according to Lt. Gen. Maria Barrett, comman...
Eight members of the independent slate led by Eileen Drake, CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD), were elected to the company’s board to serve as directors during the special meeting of shareholders. The slate, including four existing board members, received over 70 percent of the votes cast based on preliminary results and Drake secured the...
Sealing Technologies has named industry leaders Brandon Whalen, Jennifer Jenkins and Gene Dollarhide to its leadership team to serve as head of three mission areas as part of an updated structure meant to better support internal operations and advance cybersecurity mission. Whalen will serve as mission director of SealingTech’s security-enhanced i...
Tonya Wilkerson, deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), was presented her 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson on May 3rd during a recent visit to NGA Campus East in Springfield, VA. Executive Mosaic was thrilled to recognize Tonya Wilkerso...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business will continue to provide geospatial intelligence, training and infrastructure support to the U.S. Air Force’s global communications system under a potential five-year contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes services for Air National Guard locat...
Nokia has unveiled a Dallas, Texas-based 5G testing laboratory that is intended to support assessments of 5G network security resilience and software, hardware and application cybersecurity. The company said Monday the Advanced Security Testing and Research lab will develop secure platforms and implement approaches in an effort to mitigate network t...
