Wow — we are officially six weeks into the popular vote contest for the 2023 Wash100 Award. That’s just about half of the competition, which lasts from late January through the end of April. We have seen some thrilling developments thus far, the weekly totals alight with surprising comebacks and hairpin races. Before we dive into...
Gilat Satellite Networks (Nasdaq: GILT) has agreed to acquire secure Duluth, Georgia-based communications platforms provider DataPath for an undisclosed sum to expand the Israeli company’s defense market footprint. Gilat said Thursday it expects the acquisition to conclude in the third quarter of 2023, pending approval from the Committee on Fo...
Jonathan Baba, formerly a strategy and analytics partner in the defense segment at Deloitte, has been appointed senior vice president of LMI’s defense market. Baba brings to the LMI team his more than two decades of government market experience supporting both the Department of Defense and industry, the consulting company said Thursday. “...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to unveil Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner in recognition of his leadership in driving satellite communications innovation to facilitate the delivery of seamless connectivity to organizations and people worldwide. This marks the seventh time that Wasjgras has been chosen to Executive Mosaic’s an...
In the hotly contested space domain, U.S. government officials see two primary paths forward: strengthening partnerships with other nations and refining and retooling the processes at home. Though the U.S. has identified many foreign governments as direct competitors with regard to space, it has proved fruitful to ally itself with others to potentia...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has secured a five-year, $88.2 million contract to develop a cloud-based information technology platform for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to find and transmit huge amounts of complex data from GEOINT sources. The General Dynamics IT business will provide software development servic...
Joseph Ritzel, senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Day & Zimmermann, will retire from the company on April 1 after four decades of service. Joseph Ritzel His position will be filled by Kathleen King, vice president of corporate development, the engineering and construction firm said Wednesday. Ritzel started his caree...
Executive Mosaic is honored to induct Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman into the 2023 edition of the Wash100 for his work cultivating closer partnerships with the DOD’s industrial base and allied forces, trailblazing the department’s cloud adoption journey and spearheading information technology innovation across...
The U.S. federal government has sharpened its focus on cybersecurity in recent months; the Department of Defense released its zero trust strategy and roadmap at the close of 2022, and the Biden-Harris administration debuted a new national cybersecurity strategy just last week. In a statement published March 2, 2023 the White House said the...
BioMADE, a Department of Defense-sponsored manufacturing innovation institute, has received a budget hike of about $450 million from DOD to help advance bioindustrial manufacturing education and innovation. “BioMADE’s research and development is already yielding significant progress in biomanufactured proteins, chemicals, fabrics, rubber, and mo...
