Given its role as the organization responsible for helping the U.S. Department of Defense bring in and implement commercial technologies, the Defense Innovation Unit was among the first DOD entities to take up the fast follower strategy. The fast follower approach holds that government and research organizations should, rather than focus on their ow...
NASA has issued a request for proposals for a potential five-year, $476 million program to acquire Earth observation data derived from constellations of small satellites operated by commercial entities. The space agency plans to conduct the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program as a full and open competition with an on-ramp mechanism to provi...
Twelve companies and two academic organizations received a total of $50 million in NASA’s latest round of funding for the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project. The awardees are members of NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium, which will match the funds they received, the space agency said Friday. HiCAM’s production con...
For the fourth year in a row, Executive Mosaic has the honor of recognizing John Mengucci, CEO of CACI International, with the Wash100 Award. This year Mengucci added to an already robust legacy by ushering his company toward new projects tackling complex technology challenges for the U.S. defense community and breaking ground with stellar quarte...
Deep Water Point has closed its acquisition of management consulting firm Wolf Den Associates and changed its name to Deep Water Point & Associates as part of a rebranding effort. The new corporate name reflects the combination of two companies into a single entity focused on delivering a suite of management consulting services to federal...
In recent years, the U.S. intelligence community has established new priorities as it continues to address an array of new challenges presented in the modern intelligence landscape. As technological needs evolve, the necessity of transforming traditional acquisition methods and mindsets toward the process has been highlighted. For the CIA to fu...
Ronald LeClere, former vice president of finance at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed as vice president of financial planning and analysis at QinetiQ Group’s U.S. subsidiary. LeClere is expected to apply his expertise in financial performance interpretation and consultation to his new role, which include...
John Hyten, a retired U.S. Air Force general who has served on C3 AI‘s (NYSE: AI) advisory board member since June 2022, has been designated as special adviser to Thomas Siebel, CEO of the software provider. Hyten will advise the chief executive on efforts to grow C3 AI’s work with defense and intelligence agencies, the...
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 U.S. Postal Service has awarded contracts to purchase battery-operated delivery vans and install charging stations at various agency facilities nationwide as part of its fleet electrification initiative. Awards cover the procurement of 9,250 E-Transit Battery Electric Vehicles from automaker Ford and more than 14,000 pieces of EV supply eq...
