As emerging technologies continue to transform the nature of conflict between the U.S. and its adversaries, the intelligence community has recognized the need to accelerate the adoption of these tools in order to stay at the forefront of the competition. According to intelligence experts who came together for a panel discussion at GovCon Wire’s&nb...
David Diaddario, a nearly four-decade defense industry leader, has been appointed president of Hill Technical Solutions, a Huntsville, Alabama-based division of Valkyrie Enterprises, GovCon Wire has learned. He brings to the position 38 years of experience supporting the Department of Defense in technical, business development and management roles. ...
In recent years, the U.S. intelligence community has established new priorities as it continues to address an array of new challenges presented in the modern intelligence landscape. As technological needs evolve, the necessity of transforming traditional acquisition methods and mindsets toward the process has been highlighted. For the CIA to fu...
Ronald LeClere, former vice president of finance at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed as vice president of financial planning and analysis at QinetiQ Group’s U.S. subsidiary. LeClere is expected to apply his expertise in financial performance interpretation and consultation to his new role, which include...
David Goldfein, a retired U.S. Air Force general and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been named to the national security advisory board of Shield Capital. Goldfein, former Air Force chief of staff, will bring to NSAB and Shield’s portfolio companies his insights and experience in capability integration across cybersecurity, space operations and in...
The private sector is known for its rapid technological innovation process unencumbered by bureaucracy, restrictive requirements or mysterious funding procedures. Unfortunately, these qualities have not typically described the innovation process within the U.S. federal government; but now, public sector leaders are taking a page from the commercial ...
The U.S. Air Force has selected four companies to supply interface test adapters and associated equipment under a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Vendors will perform design and manufacturing services to support the service branch’s Government Test Program Set development program, the Department of Defense sai...
Executive Mosaic is excited to recognize the impressive achievements of Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, with the 2023 Wash100 Award. Shyu earns the distinction — her third win total and second consecutive — due to a persistent support of technological modernization through dogged organizational maneu...
Amy Norgren Salfi, formerly a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has been named chief strategy officer of Herndon, Virginia-based information technology and management services provider Excel Technologies. She will report directly to Excel CEO Debra Yamanaka and be responsible for helping shape the direction of the woman-owned small busin...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to refine their proposed concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor under modifications to their other transaction prototype agreements with the Missile Defense Agency. The companies will further develop their interceptor concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile de...
