Here we are again, gathered to inspect and react to the week’s changes in the 2023 Wash100 popular vote standings. The Wash100 Award, for those who aren’t familiar, is Executive Mosaic’s yearly prize handed to the 100 most distinguished government officials, industry titans, technologists and more who all circle the government contracting...
The heightening peer and near-peer competition undoubtedly stands as the Department of Defense’s most critical priority today. Global powers like China and Russia have publicly demonstrated their advancements in weapons systems, next-generation technology and other crucial areas, and the United States is strategizing how to maintain its dominance ...
Executive Mosaic is excited to recognize the impressive achievements of Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, with the 2023 Wash100 Award. Shyu earns the distinction — her third win total and second consecutive — due to a persistent support of technological modernization through dogged organizational maneu...
Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize John Wasson, chair and CEO of ICF, in the 2023 edition of the Wash100 for his pivotal role in executing the company’s strategy to better position its federal digital modernization business for growth opportunities. Wasson has led the global consulting and technology services provider since October 2019 ...
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s communications network — the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, or JWICS — started over three decades ago with an experiment to transmit a video feed securely between DIA headquarters and the Pentagon. Since then, JWICS has evolved into the top-secret sensitive, compartmented information, or S...
Global developments in recent years have injected a new sense of urgency into the U.S. intelligence community. On the heels of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and in light of emerging factors like Chinese spy balloons, nuclear developments and a heightening sense of competition between the world’s great powers, the IC is getting more serious abo...
Executive Mosaic is excited to honor Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, with his fourth consecutive Wash100 Award in recognition of his unbreakable passion for technology and its role in federal missions, which earned GDMS a remarkable number of contract wins over the past year. The Wash100 Award, which represents the mos...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Aaron Weis, chief information officer at the Department of the Navy, as an inductee into the 2023 edition of the Wash100 for his leadership in defining digital modernization objectives as part of his information superiority framework for DON in the year ahead. This is the fourth consecutive year Executive...
Mary Davie, a 34-year federal government service veteran, has joined the advisory board of real estate and facilities consulting and services firm The Building People. She will provide advice to the company’s senior leadership team on leadership development, opportunity capture, operations management and organizational transformation matters, ...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, for the third consecutive year, as a winner of the Wash100 Award for championing innovation with contractors to support tactical and strategic goals across the Department of Defense. Hicks was sworn in as the Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian official in February 2021 and...
