Bernard Harris Jr., the first African-American astronaut to complete a spacewalk 26 years ago, has been appointed to the board of directors of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX). He concurrently serves as CEO and managing partner of Vesalius Ventures, an investment company focused on the health care technology market, and leads a nonprofit educationa...
The Department of the Navy has developed sweeping new initiatives aimed at updating information technology (IT) and security practices. The Navy has also improved collaboration across operations, planning, acquisition sustainment and readiness. These strides for the Navy’s digital transformation must continue for the service to remain on the cutti...
SpaceX has won a potential $2.89 billion contract from NASA to continue development work on its human landing system that would transport two astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA said Saturday it awarded the firm-fixed-price contract under the Appendix H broad agency announcement of the Next Space...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to announce that Dave Spirk, chief data officer for Department of Defense (DOD), has been named a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for leading DOD’s new data strategy, advancing the department’s principles to adapt its data culture to support U.S. warfighters and military capabilities. With this honor, Spirk has r...
The Department of Defense has released requests for prototype proposals for Risk-Informed Spectrum Access and Multiband Control Channel Architecture requirements under a potential five-year, $2.5 billion other transaction agreement with the National Spectrum Consortium. The RISA RPP seeks industry feedback to build and demonstrate prototype spectrum...
Tim Conway, executive vice president of NTT Data Services and president of its public sector business, was presented his second Wash100 Award of his federal career on Monday during a visit from Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic. Executive Mosaic recognized Conway with the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (Gov...
Robert Silverman, executive vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton, was been awarded his first Wash100 Award, the most prestigious honor in all of government contracting (GovCon) by Executive Mosaic for his leadership and his efforts to spearhead new defense technology to support U.S. warfighters in the digital battlefield, as well as his efforts t...
Dallas-based telecommunication company COMSovereign Holding (Nasdaq: COMS) has agreed to acquire signal processing technology developer Innovation Digital through an $8 million transaction both parties expect to close within a 10-day period. COMSovereign said Wednesday the deal would add signal processing tools and intellectual property to the vendo...
Jay Bellissimo, chief operating officer for Vonage, has been named a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, the first time he’s received the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership and success driving company growth and advancing innovation in cloud communications and other key technologies. With more than thirty...
Federal acquisition processes must be on the cutting edge of technology to stay operable and efficient. Federal leaders have worked to modernize their acquisition systems to increase the adoption rate of innovative solutions, including information technology (IT), cloud and other critical emerging technologies. Agencies need to continue to implement...
