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...
Executive Mosaic is excited to honor Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, with his fourth consecutive Wash100 Award in recognition of his unbreakable passion for technology and its role in federal missions, which earned GDMS a remarkable number of contract wins over the past year. The Wash100 Award, which represents the mos...
The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals as part of the on-ramp process for a potential $900 million multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop systems and related platforms for the warfighter while introducing high confidence programs. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s architecture and in...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar Technologies, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award for the second consecutive year in recognition of his leading role in cementing the satellite imagery company’s position as a key player in the government contracting sector through notable contract awards and i...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has invested in Hidden Level, which develops sensors used on drones and other unmanned aerial systems, through its venture capital arm. Hidden Level’s sensors work to provide situational awareness and support counter-UAS missions using adaptive radio frequency signal detection techniques to identify and track low-al...
