Software factories are a central component of the Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide software modernization effort, and today, they’re growing slowly but surely across the defense landscape. But there’s still much to be accomplished in building out a full-fledged software factory ecosystem. DOD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer sa...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have secured other transaction prototype agreement modifications to extend the companies’ technology development services under the Missile Defense Agency’s Glide Phase Interceptor program. The additional funds would allow the contractors to fine-tune GPI concepts, as par...
Mitre Vice President and Chief Acceleration Officer Laurie Giandomenico has been elevated to the position of senior vice president. She will continue overseeing the not-for-profit company’s tech foundation, Engenuity, and incubation and innovation programs, the research organization said Monday. Giandomenico initially joined Mitre in 1991 as a...
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...
