President Joe Biden has nominated Harry Coker, a more than four-decade public service veteran, to serve as the next national cyber director. The White House said Coker’s nomination was sent to the Senate on Tuesday. Coker is a senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security and serves...
Systems Planning and Analysis underwent an executive leadership change in November 2022 when Bill Vantine retired and Rich Sawchak took the helm as the company’s new CEO. Sawchak refocused the organization’s strategy and structure and is leading SPA to accelerated growth through a combination of organic and acquisition-based expansion ...
Semiconductor chips underpin nearly every technology, weapon system and digital capability across the Department of Defense, making them increasingly important for a wide array of government and military missions. However, the United States’ production of these chips has fallen in recent decades, threatening our technological standing on the globa...
Andy Green, executive vice president of HII and president of the company’s mission technologies division, recently accepted his 2023 Wash100 Award during a meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. The Wash100 Award annually celebrates the most impactful executives in the government contracting industry. For 10 years, the aw...
As the digital world continues to expand, cybersecurity, data and new technologies are rising to the forefront and becoming essential to government and industry organizations alike. M9 Solutions President and Chief Revenue Officer Sean DuGuay sat down with Executive Mosaic to discuss how the defense landscape is changing, which emerging technol...
Unanet CEO Craig Halliday was decorated with his first-ever Wash100 Award this year and to celebrate, Executive Mosaic CEO and award founder Jim Garrettson met with Halliday at Unanet’s Dulles, Virginia headquarters. The annual honor is the most prestigious recognition of its kind in the government contracting and federal sectors. I...
During his nearly four years as chief information officer for the Department of the Navy, Aaron Weis championed widespread information technology modernization efforts and asserted that the service branch’s cybersecurity strategy needed to evolve to keep up with emerging threats. Now, as managing director of technology at Google Public Sector, We...
Former U.S. Representative Will Hurd, a cybersecurity specialist with strong ties to the government contracting field and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, announced his presidential campaign Thursday on “CBS Mornings.” Hurd represented Texas’ 23rd congressional district from 2015 to 2021. During his time in office, he introd...
Maria Demaree, a vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s space business, received her 2023 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent presentation ceremony. The Wash100 list annually recognizes the most influential and impactful executives working in the government and government contracti...
On July 18, Executive Mosaic’s Potomac Officers Club will host a summit for GovCon executives and government leaders to discuss how the Department of the Air Force is applying modern technology to support the national security mission, especially in light of renewed near-peer competition. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, a 2023 Wash100 Awa...
