Executive Mosaic, the government contracting sector’s leading media and events organization, is honored to announce the winners of the 2023 Wash100 Award in celebration of the award’s 10th anniversary. The Wash100 Award, GovCon’s most powerful accolade, annually honors the top 100 executives of consequence in the government contracting co...
Nine companies have won spots on a five-year, $99 million contract to provide engineering and architectural services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The firm-fixed-price contract is expected for completion by Jan. 16, 2028, and will be performed and funded on a per-task order basis, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. USACE selected the...
Thirty veterans of the government, industry and academia to serve on a federal advisory committee that offers strategic and policy recommendations to the National Space Council. Lester Lyles, a retired U.S. Air Force general and an independent consultant, was selected to chair the NSpC Users Advisory Group, the White House said Friday. Vice Presiden...
Coming out of his undergraduate work in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Kent Wilcher considered three industries: oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and defense. After some brief deliberation, his answer was fairly easy. He decided to serve the defense industry because of his belief in its mission—he wanted something highly technica...
Six companies will compete for task orders on a $200 million contract to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. USACE received 11 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet and expects work to be complete by June 11, 2028, the Department of Defense said Monday. The awardees are:...
American Systems has won a potential 10-year, $1.01 billion contract to perform test, evaluation and certification work for the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA will obligate $10,000 in minimum guarantee upon the issuance of the first task order under the single-award TEC II Services contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. The indef...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket early Wednesday in the start of the agency’s program to land humans again on the lunar surface. The uncrewed Orion separated from the SLS upper stage at a speed of 22,600 mph two hours after liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in...
Executives from government contracting and private equity firms met Thursday at the Raymond James 2022 Defense & Government Conference to share their perspectives on the federal market’s current environment and investors’ appetite for GovCon business. More than 700 attendees heard from some of the most influential individuals across ...
Bill Weber, former president and CEO of KeyW, has assumed the CEO role at Texas-based space transportation developer Firefly Aerospace. He will lead Firefly’s next phase of expansion and take over for Peter Schumacher, who has held the chief executive role in an interim capacity since July, the company said Thursday. An aerospace and defense...
Bill Monet, president and CEO of Akima, was presented his 2022 Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s headquarters in Herndon, VA. Executive Mosaic is pleased to recognize Bill Monet as a three-time Wash100 Award winner, which demonstrates his visionary leadership in the government contracting...
