L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential $187 million contract to continue helping the U.S. Space Force maintain and upgrade its space surveillance systems and command centers dedicated to providing space domain awareness for military and civilian users. The award exercises the option year five of the potential 10-year, $1.2 billion...
Daniel Bono, formerly vice president at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has been named senior VP of intelligence solutions at Two Six Technologies, succeeding Chris Greenlee, who transitioned to the role of VP of zero trust solutions. In his new role, Bono will oversee the company’s Trusted Concepts business unit that offers cyber, advanced a...
The Wash100 Award popular vote contest — a friendly yet fiery match-up between the government contracting industry’s most exceptional talents — has been going on for nearly three months now, but this week may have been its most exciting yet. The number one seed, Booz Allen Hamilton’s Judi Dotson, is hanging on to her spot, but there...
Godspeed Capital Management has partnered with Special Aerospace Services to establish a new platform focused on delivering space engineering, missile defense, hypersonics and communications technologies to U.S. defense and intelligence community agencies and commercial space clients. Heather Bulk, co-founder and CEO of SAS, will lead the new platfo...
Paul Courtney, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from the award’s founder, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, in a recent in-person meeting. The Wash100 Award is bestowed on the 100 individuals EM’s discerning voting body determines are the foremost change-makers in government...
Software developer Bluestaq has named Brandon Tripp, a previous director at the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and former member of the Army special forces, as its new chief growth officer. Bluestaq announced the appointment on LinkedIn, touting Tripp’s “innovative leadership” and “extensive background in aerospa...
The U.S. Army wants $186 billion in spending power for fiscal year 2025, a figure which has not yet been approved. The budget includes funds for nine barracks construction projects, an increased focus on fitness facilities and routine upticks in pay for soldiers. It has also been assembled with an eye toward responding to “aggression in...
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...
