Rocket Lab has completed its acquisition of Optical Support, Inc., strengthening its capability to support critical defense programs such as the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture and the Golden Dome. Rocket Lab said Thursday adds 20 experienced employees and 22,000 square feet of advanced machining, testing ...
Dan Jablonsky, chairman and CEO of Ursa Major Technologies, will join Sierra Space as CEO, effective March 2. Sierra Space said Thursday that its founder, Fatih Ozmen, who has been serving as interim CEO, will continue to serve as chair of the board. “Dan brings tremendous experience leading complex aerospace and defense organizations at scale...
BAE Systems has received a U.S. Army contract worth more than $500 million to produce additional M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers and M992A3 ammunition carriers for the service branch. As the Army advances major modernization efforts, including continued investment in platforms like M109A7 Paladin, senior leaders and industry executives will ...
IonQ added three executives to its federal go-to-market organization as it looks to deepen engagement with defense, intelligence and civilian agencies, according to a LinkedIn post from the company on Tuesday. Who Is Steve Harris? Steve Harris, named senior vice president of federal GTM and public sector, most recently served as Dynatrace’s ge...
The General Services Administration has awarded 48 vendors positions on the women-owned small business, or WOSB, pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, for IT products and services. The latest round of awards under a governmentwide IT contract vehicle underscores the continued demand for agile, high-performing techno...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and one of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Experts In the current digital environment, supply chains are essential to national security, vital infrastructure and international trade. They have, however, also emerged as one of the most often used attack methods in cybersecurity. Cybercrimi...
GRVTY has appointed Peter Ranks, the first assistant director of the CIA for cyber intelligence, as chief strategy officer. At the CIA, Ranks led the Center for Cyber Intelligence and supported cyber mission initiatives across the intelligence enterprise, GRVTY said Monday. In his new role, he will oversee corporate strategy and help guide expansion...
Axonius Federal Systems has appointed Jared Vichengrad as senior vice president and general manager. The Reston, Virginia-based company said Monday that Vichengrad will lead its strategy, execution and growth across the U.S. federal market. He will report directly to the AFS board of directors. Who Is Jared Vichengrad? Vichengrad joins AFS from Chec...
Bcore and CEO Chad Kim have benefited from this new Pentagon era of faster, more innovative acquisition Bcore is a mission-driven technology and national security services provider Hear directly from Kim during the New Power Players in Defense Tech panel discussion at the 2026 GovCon Executive Leadership Summit this Thursday—Feb. 26! Bcore CEO C...
The American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation has broken ground on its first National Security Industrial Hub in Bloomfield, Indiana, advancing a Department of War-backed effort to expand domestic munitions and solid rocket motor production capacity, according to a press release sent to GovCon Wire. The campus, which spans more than 1...
