John Gerbracht, a senior director of contracts at HII (NYSE: HII), has assumed a vice president position within the company’s mission technologies division, according to a LinkedIn post published Sunday. Gerbracht is a contracts management and administration professional with 27 years of government contracting industry experience. He came to H...
Over time, acquisition processes in the federal government, particularly in the Department of Defense and space realms, have become more flexible and amenable to specific situations and users. In the last half decade or so, veteran DOD servants say changes such as these and others have breathed new life into the development and production of...
HII (NYSE: HII) logged first-quarter revenue of $2.7 billion, up 3.8 percent from prior-year period figures, and the company attributed the growth to strong performance by its Newport News Shipbuilding and Mission Technologies divisions. The company said Thursday net earnings for the quarter totaled $129 million, or $3.23 per share, compared to $140...
Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from r...
Some of our nation’s most critical systems are facing increasingly complex and dangerous threats as hackers grow more sophisticated and even the smallest vulnerabilities leave organizations exposed. Executive Mosaic sat down with Matt Heideman, president and general manager of Xage Security Government, to take a closer look at the ...
The Department of Defense’s long-awaited enterprise cloud effort finally got off the ground in December 2022, when four commercial cloud service providers landed a spot on the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. Executive Mosaic spoke with leaders from each of the awardee companies — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and...
Derrick Pledger, a senior vice president and chief information officer at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said government agencies seeking to drive digital modernization efforts to improve operations and address mission challenges should look for a vendor that is focused on building deep technical partnerships to develop new platforms and capabilities for agen...
Chesapeake Technology International has purchased Rapid Imaging Technologies for an undisclosed sum to grow CTI’s product offerings for the defense and intelligence sectors. CTI said Thursday the purchase brings in a patented situational awareness platform that adds geospatial augmented reality overlays to real-time, full-motion videos Middlet...
By Kevin Plexico, Senior Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek In March, the Office of Management and Budget officially released the Biden Administration’s initial fiscal year 2024 discretionary budget request. This initial budget proposal includes a total of approximately $1.8 trillion in top-line discretionary budget requests fo...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said that DOD will introduce a new “effort” to facilitate industry collaboration in bringing commercial space platforms to the U.S. warfighter mission, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “The goal of this effort is to incorporate [t...
