Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, as an inductee into the 2022 Wash100 — an annual list of public and private sector leaders who are at the forefront of trends and events that shape government contracting activity. This marks the second consecutive year that Hicks has been...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to introduce Jean Stack, managing director for Baird, as a winner of the 2022 Wash100 Award, the most respected award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for her leadership and success to drive significant company growth as well as more than $7 billion in M&A activity deals across the GovCon sector...
Cybersecurity thought leader Melissa Hathaway, CipherTrace CEO David Jevans, Abaxx Associates CEO Eric Scofield and Amanda Wick, senior investigative counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, took part in an enlightening panel discussion on identifying virtual asset knowledge gaps, addressing ransomware threats and accelerating the speed of fed...
The Potomac Officers Club on Thursday hosted its first Digital Currency and National Security Forum, which gathered the leading figures and voices in the blockchain, cryptocurrency and virtual asset movement to explore the underlying technology foundations, the national security concerns and the potential future impacts of digital currencies as th...
The Potomac Officers Club on Wednesday hosted its 8th Annual Defense Research & Development Summit, where government and industry leaders discussed the projects and ideas that are keeping the U.S. military and Pentagon officials at the forefront of modern strategy as well as technological discoveries that prepare for new threats abroad. After a...
Michael Hylton, senior director of government sales at OPSWAT, said agencies seeking to protect information technology systems and government data from cyberthreats should extend their zero trust strategy to every file and “assume that it’s malicious until proven otherwise.” He wrote about how OPSWAT applies its content disarm and reconstructi...
On Tuesday, GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum, which featured leaders across defense agencies, military branches and industry who joined in dynamic discussion to share the procurement interests, technology influences and strategic priorities driving acquisitions across the defense sector as agencies work to acceler...
Positioning, navigation and timing technology provider Orolia has agreed to acquire Granada, Spain-based Seven Solutions in a move to expand the former’s product portfolio for defense, telecommunications, data center, smart grid and aerospace applications. Orolio said Monday it expects to close the transaction before the end of 2021 and pursue...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its 6th Annual Army Forum on Thursday to share the most recent news, initiatives and developments regarding how the U.S. Army is driving future capabilities to meet the demand and speed of the digital battlefield from the perspective of the elite executives addressing the challenges first hand. Following an opening...
The U.S. Army has placed emphasis on readiness, end-strength and modernization requirements for the future battlefield to accommodate a $3.6 billion funding drop under the service branch’s $173 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022. “This budget puts people first, maintains force readiness and continues the irreversible modernization mo...
