Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index ended the week with a 2.36% loss following the 0.8% drop Friday to $4,780.55. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, has fallen 3.04% since the start of April. Wall Street saw a broad market selloff due to the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel. All the major...
Leidos Chief Growth Officer Gerry Fasano recently accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Vote for Fasano as your favorite Wash100 Award winner at Wash100.com! The Wash100 popular vote competition runs until April 30, and the winner will be announced in May. Each year, the coveted Wash100 Award honors the most i...
Cubic Chairman Mac Curtis recently accepted his 2024 Wash100 Award during a meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the coveted award. Wash100 annually celebrates public and private sector executives who have exerted a powerful influence on the government contracting field. Those who receive a Wash100 Award are ...
The Department of Homeland Security has begun seeking information for a recompete contract worth more than $100 million to provide information technology operations and maintenance services to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The IT User and Field Operations Support II contract vehicle has a five-year ordering period and covers technical s...
The story of the Wash100 Award popular vote contest this week remains the staggering vote count. In the last month, we have seen our first-ever contestant cross the threshold of 1,000 votes—Booz Allen Hamilton’s Judi Dotson. Shortly thereafter, another competitor, IBM’s Susan Wedge, an early favorite this year and currently the number three...
The General Services Administration has released an update to its draft request for proposals for the unrestricted pool of the third iteration of its Alliant government governmentwide acquisition contract covering information technology products and services. GSA said Thursday it intends to select 76 potential offerors for the Alliant 3 contract and...
Thunderdome is a new, modernized cybersecurity and technology architecture for the Department of Defense, spearheaded by the Defense Information Systems Agency. It is part of the Pentagon’s official zero trust strategy, as mandated by President Biden’s Executive Order and concretized in the DOD’s Nov. 2022 zero trust strategy. Thunderdome gai...
Artificial intelligence advancements have made major waves across government and industry in the last year. While AI holds great promise and potential for technological innovation, it can also be extremely risky, especially in the hands of our adversaries and competitors. Digital Science President Stephen Leicht explored the benefits, risks, threat...
Thomas Bell, CEO of Leidos, has made his debut on Executive Mosaic’s most prestigious 2024 Wash100 list for his leadership and dedication to driving the development of next-generation technologies for defense, intelligence and national security sectors. Vote for Bell as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote compe...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rose 0.46% to $4,896.02 Friday as 22 of its constituents advanced. However, the index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, still ended 1.35% lower week-on-week due to the weak start in April. Wall Street’s major indexes closed the week with losses despite bouncing back from thei...
