Given its role as the organization responsible for helping the U.S. Department of Defense bring in and implement commercial technologies, the Defense Innovation Unit was among the first DOD entities to take up the fast follower strategy. The fast follower approach holds that government and research organizations should, rather than focus on their ow...
Intelsat’s Dave Wajsgras recently accepted his 2023 Wash100 Award during a meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Wajsgras, a seven-time Wash100 Award recipient, was honored for his demonstrated commitment to advancing satellite communications technology to promote global connectivity between people and institutions. This...
Ball Aerospace has appointed three executives to oversee its technological initiatives and tactical solutions and operations strategic capabilities businesses. The company on Thursday named Jack Sauer as vice president and chief technologist, John Martin as VP of operations strategic capabilities and Paula Burns as VP and general manager of tac...
Executive Mosaic is honored to name U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro to the 2023 Wash100 list for spearheading Navy infrastructure modernization initiatives, reforming acquisition processes and driving technology innovation across the service branch. This marks Del Toro’s debut on the Wash100 list, which annually recognizes distinguis...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will manufacture lot nine glide bombs equipped with multimode seeker technology for the U.S. Air Force under a $320.3 million contract. The company’s missiles and defense business will produce 1,500 units of the StormBreaker, a networked weapon designed to locate and engage fixed or moving targets, Raytheon sa...
Skip Maselli, a more than 35-year intelligence and defense industry leader, has joined space data company Pixxel as vice president of public sector business in the U.S. He will report to Aakash Parekh, chief commercial officer of Pixxel, and oversee the development and execution of the company’s strategy to advance growth initiatives in the U.S....
Amentum CEO John Heller accepted his 2023 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. This marks Heller’s seventh year of recognition as one of the elite and innovative government contracting executives that comprise the distinguished Wash100 list. Heller earned this year’s honor for demonstrati...
The U.S. Navy has exercised options worth $234 million under a contract with Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) for the production and delivery of an over-the-horizon weapon system for defending against targets at sea and on land. Raytheon and its Norwegian partner Kongsberg Gruppen won the potential $847.6 million OTH-WS contract in 2018 to supply N...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to launch a full and open competition for a potential 10-year, $850 million multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and development services in support of the missions of NGA and international partners. NGA expects to release in May the solicitation for the Resea...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to include Wes Anderson, vice president of defense at Microsoft, in the 2023 edition of the Wash100 Award in recognition of his efforts to drive the utilization of augmented and virtual reality, cloud and artificial intelligence technologies in support of armed forces. The award marks the third time Anderson was selected...
