Now a contested domain, space has taken center stage in today’s global landscape, and the United States has made space capability development a top priority as it works to stay ahead in great power competition. “While the U.S. currently outpaces the rest of the world in space capabilities, our competitors are seeking to counter our...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to recognize Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology, with the 2024 Wash100 Award for driving IT investments in the government contracting sector and leading business development and growth initiatives for GDIT. Vote for Gilliland as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popul...
Last month, Department of the Air Force leaders announced a four-pronged plan to reshape the DAF to stay competitive in modern great power competition. These categories – develop people, generate readiness, project power and develop integrated capabilities – form a holistic approach to optimizing the Air Force and Space Force. Each of these ar...
Sandra Amis, an international development leader with more than 25 years of experience, was appointed as chief administrative officer of CRDF Global, a nonprofit organization that delivers security and international development support to customers. CRDF Global said Friday Amis joined from Management Systems International, a Tetra Tech company (Nasd...
Kevin Randolph, an associate at Blue Delta Capital Partners, has taken on the role of principal at the Tysons, Virginia-based growth-stage venture capital firm focused on the U.S. federal government market. He announced his promotion in a LinkedIn post published in late February. Randolph has been with Blue Delta since 2019. As an associate, he...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a $158 million follow-on prime contract to continue developing and expanding the U.S. Air Force’s automated command and control and emergency management system. The company said Thursday it will help broaden the use of the Command and Control Incident Management Emergency Response Application across all Air Forc...
Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Heath Collins said the agency is working more closely than ever with partners like the U.S. Space Force and the Space Development Agency to respond to evolving missile threats and bolster our space resilience. “We see an ever increasing relationship of reliance on space, both us counting on space, as...
Executive Mosaic has elected Young Bang, U.S. Army principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology, as one of its first-time winners of the Wash100 Award for 2024. The recognition underscores how his endorsement of artificial intelligence, automation and digital engineering supported the integration of cutting-edge tec...
President Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence was seen as a watershed, a ruling that acknowledged both the capacity for tremendous good and harmful risk inherent in AI technologies. It and its attendant guidance, issued by the Office of Management and Budget, se...
The Space Development Agency is single-mindedly focused on delivering space-based capabilities to the warfighter. It accomplishes this goal through a dual capability approach. The first capability is line of sight targeting, which is concerned with detecting, tracking and calculating a firing solution for targets like mobile missile launchers or shi...
