The U.S. Army has asked industry stakeholders to submit proposals for a potential 10-year, $900 million contract to enable the service to accelerate modernization priorities and innovation to support warfighters in multidomain operations. The Army Modernization Priorities program is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract ...
Kirk Riggs, a U.S. Air Force veteran and a former executive at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), has been appointed vice president of strategy and business development operations within the intelligence group at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), according to a LinkedIn post published Monday. While at L3Harris, Riggs oversaw similar functions under the company&#...
L3Harris Technologies‘ (NYSE: LHX) board of directors has approved a plan to repurchase another $3.0 billion of its common stock. The Melbourne, Florida-based defense technology supplier said Friday the additional stock re-acquisition will bring total buyback authorization for L3Harris to approximately $4.5 billion. Stockholders of record as o...
Wesley Rice, a U.S. Navy veteran and a former vice president at professional services contractor ISN Corp., has been appointed chief operating officer at engineering research and development company D’Angelo Technologies, according to a LinkedIn post published Sunday. In his new role, Rice manages daily operations, strategic growth and busines...
Shannon Miller, a nearly 25-year veteran of Jacobs (NYSE: J), has been promoted to executive vice president and head of the company’s newly formed divergent solutions business focused on delivering data platforms to customers. Jacobs said Thursday the divergent solutions segment will work with the company’s critical mission solutions and people ...
Across the U.S. GovCon landscape, defense agencies are accelerating their modernization and digital transformation efforts. DOD agencies are harnessing new technologies and capabilities like cloud, digital engineering and data analytics to meet the evolving needs of warfighters in the digital age. Executive Mosaic spoke with Nazzic Keene,...
With the rise of new technologies and the expansion of the digital world, cyber has become a critical component of warfighting, national security and innovation for the United States. In February 2022, cyber took the global spotlight as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, but U.S. cyber forces were ahead of the threat and played...
Mike Malaret, director of sales engineering for public sector at Veritas Technologies, said government agencies should prioritize data protection by developing a detailed strategy that could enable them to quickly respond to data breaches and restore data and applications that are key to delivering services to citizens. Malaret urged agencies to imp...
Since the 1990s, American semiconductor chip manufacturing has declined while U.S. reliance on foreign manufacturers has increased, posing significant risk to national and economic security. The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, signed into law in August, is changing that narrative, and domestic chip manufacturers like Intel are turning the n...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a five-year, $225.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop the next hardware and software increment for the U.S. Navy’s Sidewinder air-to-air missile system. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Raytheon’s missiles and defense business will perform updates as part of the AIM-9X Blo...
