Grant Hagen, formerly senior vice president of business operations at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Technical Solutions division, has been named president of the segment’s cyber and electronic warfare business group. He succeeds Terri Walker-Spoonhour, who led the group on an acting basis and will continue in her full-time r...
Rich Wilkinson, director of product marketing for Unanet and a GovCon Expert, has published the latest article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Tuesday. Previously, Wilkinson explored how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the professional services industry and how these firms will be able to adapt to the new “work f...
The Department of the Treasury’s office of foreign assets control issued guidance in October to promote compliance with sanctions requirements and due diligence best practices in the virtual currency industry. OFAC said technology companies, miners, wallet providers, exchangers, administrators and other operators in the virtual currency industry p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 9, 2021 — ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) seeks to broaden its digital engineering offerings with the $350 million acquisition of Gryphon Technologies, a Washington, D.C.-based systems engineering firm that provides a range of services to defense customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 1. “This acquisition maps dir...
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has secured a $225 million sole-source contract to perform research, development and engineering work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. APL will receive task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help DARPA turn scientific and technical theori...
Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer for the Department of the Air Force, was presented her first Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent 4×24 membership dinner. This marks the first time that Knausenberger has received the most prestigious and celebrated award in all of government contracting (GovCon). In th...
ExecutiveBiz spoke with John Serafini, CEO of Hawkeye 360, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview released Friday. The discussion focused on the company’s growth strategies, satellite capabilities, expansion of its executive team and advisory board and recent contract win in support of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Here’...
Greg Smallwood, president of Prometheus Federal Services, has been promoted to the CEO role, FedHealthIT reported Friday. He will lead the company that supports health care and social service programs for military personnel. Smallwood joined PFS in July 2019 after his prior role as principal at Atlas Research, where he oversaw the latter’s wor...
Federal agencies are working to integrate artificial intelligence into their infrastructures as they iteratively replace outdated legacy systems and optimize essential operations to match adversarial capabilities in the digital age. As a boost to this critical initiative, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio introduced the Adv...
The State Department has cleared a $650 million foreign military sales proposal from Saudi Arabia for the procurement of Raytheon Technologies-built (NYSE: RTX) Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile systems and associated equipment. Saudi Arabia asked to buy up to 280 AIM-120C AMRAAMs and 596 LAU-128 Missile Rail Launchers along with spare and re...
