William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper and a former Air Force acquisition chief, received Senate confirmation to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday. During his Senate confirmation hearing in late March, LaPlante, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the U...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Shawn Purvis, president and CEO of QinetiQ’s U.S. business arm and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, to talk about her transition as the top executive of QinetiQ U.S. as well as her growth and acquisition strategies for 2022. She also discussed what she believes as...
Commercial space is skyrocketing, fueled particularly by the growing need for real-time space imagery and satellite communications in Ukraine as Russia’s invasion of the country continues. As geospatial intelligence and space domain awareness continue to gain importance in the future of warfare, global powers are racing to achieve technological, t...
The U.S. military is shoring up its cybersecurity and information security defenses as the evolving geopolitical landscape requires service branches to better protect their intellectual property. Specifically, the Army Futures Command is working to minimize the risk of compromising sensitive information and maintain the United States’ technologica...
The space domain plays a critical role in Joint Force operations as cross-service information sharing takes priority within the Department of Defense. Gen. Jay Raymond, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner said we’re in the most complex strategic security environment he’s seen in three gen...
Blue Air Training and Top Aces have completed a business combination process and aim to create a turnkey air combat training service for military customers. The two companies intend to maintain independent operations and names at their respective Las Vegas, Nevada, and Mesa, Arizona, headquarters. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and B...
The Department of Defense is placing high priority on the development of secure, resilient mission partner environments as it moves forward with its highly-anticipated Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. “Modernizing mission partner information sharing” is one of the five key lines of effort that make up the Department of Defense’...
The Space Development Agency is planning to issue a solicitation in the coming weeks for a layer of low-Earth orbit satellites that will track adversarial missiles. SDA is expected to award contracts to two or more vendors for 28 spacecraft that will comprise the agency’s tracking layer of Tranche 1, which is slated to begin launching...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service, as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient for helping the U.S. military and federal government boost their defenses against cybersecurity threats. This marks the sixth consecuti...
As the global geopolitical environment sees rapid developments unfolding, the United States is shoring up its defense and military capabilities to prepare for an array of potential scenarios in the face of budgetary and adversarial uncertainties. More than 20 of the Defense Department’s top leaders gathered on Wednesday during the McAleese FY2023...
