ColdQuanta has appointed Laura Hale, a space technology market veteran, as vice president of government programs and made three other appointments to its leadership team. Hale brings an extensive background in multidomain program and product management and systems engineering to her new position, the quantum technology company said Monday. Chris Woo...
Justin DePalmo, a more than 15-year cybersecurity professional in the aerospace and defense industry, has been appointed chief information security officer of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business. He will oversee cyberthreat intelligence, incident response, risk mitigation, cyber compliance, vulnerability management, traini...
SpiderOak has announced the appointment of military veterans and industry experts to the newly created space advisory board to provide guidance as the company works to deploy zero trust-based platforms and services to protect national security and commercial space systems and data from cybersecurity threats. The members of the board are Ellen Pawlik...
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...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has elevated Jeffrey Schrader from his post as vice president at its intelligence and space business to president of SEAKR Engineering and Blue Canyon Technologies. Schrader, who made the announcement via LinkedIn post, brings to his new leadership role at the Raytheon subsidiaries years-long experience in defense a...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has conducted a survey regarding efforts at federal civilian and defense agencies to implement zero trust cybersecurity policies in accordance with President Biden’s May 2021 executive order. The “Agency Guide to Zero Trust Maturity” study polled 300 government officials to gauge w...
The countdown clock has officially begun – there is just one month remaining until voting closes for the user-generated ranking of the 2022 Wash100 Award! For two months now, the most popular executives in government contracting, the federal sector and adjacent industries have battled it out, powered by your votes. Out of the complete list of...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to announce Kevin Phillips, chairman, president and CEO of ManTech International, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award for stewarding the company through its continued organic growth from acquisitions and contract awards. Phillips has been selected six consecutive times to Executive Mosaic’s annual list of lead...
Jeffrey Phelan, former public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, has joined artificial intelligence cloud technology provider H2O.ai as public sector growth lead. H2O.ai told GovCon Wire that Phelan will lead the company’s efforts to build a channel focused on the federal system integrator community and oversee its distribution ...
A Cerberus Capital Management affiliate has purchased Herndon, Virginia-based information technology contractor NetCentrics for an undisclosed sum to help drive the latter’s financial and expansion goals. NetCentrics received a capital investment from the New York City-based private equity firm in connection with the deal and appointed 25-year...
