The Department of Defense has made changes to the Autonomy in Weapon Systems directive to reflect DOD’s continuous efforts to develop policies on military uses of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems as well as changes across the department over the last 10 years. The DoD Directive 3000.09 was developed to prevent unintended engagements ...
Randy Cash, a more than three-decade operational and business development leader in the GovCon industry, has been appointed president and CEO of Axient. He succeeds Patrick Murphy, who has served as chief executive of Axient since 2021. Axient emerged following the rebranding of QuantiTech and its three subsidiaries – Millennium Engineering an...
As the Department of Defense shifts its focus away from counterterrorism and toward the peer and near-peer competition, modernization and rapid technological innovation have become crucial to national security missions. Executive Mosaic spoke with DOD Chief Information Officer John Sherman in a new video interview to learn more about his thoughts ...
The Department of Defense plans to add requirements to National Security Space Launch program contracts in a move to address Chinese and Russian interference, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. In a briefing to potential vendors of the upcoming contracting round, DOD said the next generation of rockets designed for launching spy satellites sh...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of information solutions at Deltek and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, forecasts that inflation and the near-term rollout of fiscal 2023 government funds will drive a favorable contracting landscape in the coming year, FCW reported Monday. Plexico noted the $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations package, Infrast...
In 2022, the GovCon landscape saw announcements and completions of merger-and-acquisition deals at privately held, publicly traded and private equity backed companies that sought to expand what they could offer to their federal customers. Continuing reading below for Executive Mosaic editorial team’s rundown of transactions and insights from i...
The government contracting industry witnessed a number of strategic executive movements in 2022, including appointments and promotions to C-level roles as well as leadership changes meant to spur growth in public sector-focused practices. As the year draws to a close, Executive Mosaic‘s editorial team is sharing people moves that dominated the...
The year 2022 in government contracting featured new multibillion-dollar contract awards, major recompetes and some protests over agency procurement decisions. Before we shift into 2023, our editorial team is thrilled to share the most significant federal contracts of the past 12 months from Executive Mosaic’s media portfolio. Continue reading...
The Washington Headquarters Services has awarded nine companies positions on a potential five-year, $1.5 billion contract for analytic and technical support services. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes acquisition and sustainment oversight support, engineering and agile methodologies, capability portfolio management,...
The Department of Defense’s fiscal year 2023 budget request includes the largest ever increase in spending for research and development. The $130.1 billion investment request is more than 9.5 percent over the fiscal year 2022 enacted level, and it represents a major milestone in the DOD’s modernization and innovation efforts. To find out more ab...
