Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been selected to develop the Missile Defense Agency’s next-generation missile interceptor system designed to defend the U.S. homeland against intercontinental ballistic missile threats. The company said Monday it will serve as the prime contractor on the Next Generation Interceptor program and spearhead the syst...
Mark Anderson, an associate principal solutions architect at Red Hat, said government agencies looking to manage and ensure the security of hybrid cloud environments should implement an everything-as-code approach and automation. In an article published in Carahsoft.com, Anderson wrote that the everything-as-code approach “means thinking about how...
Artificial intelligence is changing the game across all domains and industries, including in space. Maria Demaree, vice president and general manager of national security space at Lockheed Martin, spoke with Executive Mosaic about how AI is impacting missions from CJADC2 to space and more. Demaree, a two-time Wash100 Award winner, has been with Lo...
Sterling Jones, a two-decade industry veteran, was named vice president and general manager of Agile Development Group at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), according to a LinkedIn announcement. Jones previously served as general manager of military avionics at the Melbourne, Florida-headquartered defense contracting company. The executive has been ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential 10-year, $4.1 billion follow-on contract from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop and integrate updates and capabilities into the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications system. Under the C2BMC-Next program, Lockheed said Thursday it will improve sensor connection and a...
George Wilson and Tom Weston, former executives of ECS Federal, have partnered with private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners to invest and build a company dedicated to providing mission-critical technologies for federal government customers. Wilson and Weston intend to grow a company that offers technology products and capabilities to custo...
Mark D’Alessandro, a strategic information technology executive who previously served as a Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) vice president, was named chief technology officer at Four Points Technology, according to his LinkedIn announcement. He brings to the IT-focused, service disabled veteran owned small business nearly three decades of experi...
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Young Bang received his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent 4×24 executive leadership series event. Vote for Young Bang to win the Wash100 popular vote competition at Wash100.com! Voting is open until April 30, ...
Van Gurley’s successful career in government contracting might appear largely happenstance. “I typically said yes and would walk through that door even when I wasn’t sure what was on the other side of it,” Gurley told us about opportunities he encountered that proved invaluable later in his career. He began his working life as a...
Open radio access networks, or Open RAN, is a new approach to RANs that separates traditionally integrated hardware and software and upholds a set of specific standards to enable multiple vendors to provide different components under one cloud service provider’s network. The Department of Defense has made 5G a top priority, and it has taken notic...
