Todd Borkey, chief technology officer of Alion Science Technology, will moderate a panel discussion on space innovation efforts by the Department of Defense during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Industrial Space Defense Summit on Tuesday. Borkey is the moderator for the “How Does the DOD Leverage Commercialization of Space” panel, which ...
As space exploration, space research and satellite technology continue to expand rapidly. Space agencies such as NASA have worked to develop innovative solutions to support critical space and defense missions. The Department of Defense (DOD) and the U.S. Space Force intend to maintain space superiority and provide space capabilities to U.S. and alli...
Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since Feb. 2021, has received the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon) for his contributions to the federal sector, Executive Mosaic announced on Friday. More specifically, Mayorkas drive for excellence and efforts to advance the cyber spendi...
Executive Mosaic is proud to introduce DeEtte Gray, president of business and information technology solutions for CACI International, as a recipient of the highly coveted Wash100 Award for the fifth year in the prestigious eight-year history of the award. This also marks the second consecutive year that Gray has received a Wash100 Award for her...
A Textron (NYSE: TXT) business segment has secured a potential five-year, $607 million contract to engineer and convert the U.S. Army’s Shadow RQ-7B unmanned aircraft system to an updated configuration. Textron Systems said Thursday it will perform technical and logistics work in addition to installing Block III features into the company-built tac...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce John Vollmer, CEO of Amentum, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, the most significant award of consequence to the government contracting (GovCon) sector, for his leadership in establishing ‘Amentum’ in the federal market and driving its significant growth through major contract awards and key acquisitions...
Vice Adm. Jon Hill, director of the Missile Defense Agency, will deliver a closing keynote speech on March 23 at the 2021 Industrial Space Defense Summit, a Potomac Officers Club-hosted virtual event covering U.S. military innovation and partnership efforts in the space security arena. In his current capacity, Hill oversees MDA’s efforts to de...
The State Department has approved the Dutch government’s request to procure pilot training and logistics support for Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook helicopters under two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $315 million combined. The FMS deal for AH-64 helicopter pilot training support is wor...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded AB International Services a $177.6 million contract to help operate the service branch’s calibration and metrology laboratory complex in Heath, Ohio. AB International will perform work at the Air Force Primary Standards Laboratory and will receive $45,742 at the time of award, the Department of Defense said Wedn...
The U.S. Air Force has named Boeing (NYSE: BA), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) to its list of sources that could support the service’s plan to rapidly prototype a stand-in attack weapon within 60 months. SiAW is an air-to-ground weapon system that c...
