Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines was presented with the 2023 Wash100 Award for her continued focus on national security threat assessment and efforts to enhance sharing of information to advance critical missions. This is the third consecutive time that Haines secured Executive Mosaic’s most prestigious award in all of governmen...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100, said he is working on a new DOD guidance on the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program as part of efforts to ensure “cloud rationalization” and enable the government to get the best mission outcome and value for...
Michelle McCarthy, senior vice president and chief accounting officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), has been named interim chief financial officer at the Andover, Massachusetts-headquartered aerospace and defense electronics supplier. She will replace Michael Ruppert, who will step down as CFO on Feb. 17 after five years in the role, the compan...
Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize V2X CEO and President Chuck Prow as a winner of the 2023 Wash100 Award, an annual distinction bestowed upon the best and brightest “executives of consequence” within the vast and multi-faceted government contracting ecosystem. Prow’s win this year is attributed to his demonstr...
Research and development serves as the foundation for innovation across the United States, and the most recent federal budget reflects the importance of these efforts with a historical increase in R&D spending. However, as the speed of technological advancement increases and global competition puts pressure on the country, the R&D model must...
Marshall Denney, a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel, has joined Client Solution Architects, a provider of integrated technology platforms and operational support services to defense and federal government clients, as vice president of the company’s Navy business unit, GovCon Wire has learned. In this capacity, he will lead efforts to achieve the ...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner in recognition of his leadership strategy that works to sustain the company’s growth through innovation, major program wins and acquisitions. Krone, a 45-year GovCon industry veteran, has made all 10 classes of the Wash100 for his ...
Aidan Fitzgerald, former vice president of finance for the national security and space sector at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed to the same position at Ball Aerospace. His appointment is effective Feb. 3 and he will succeed Alison Medbery, who will retire from Ball Aerospace after a 27-year career, th...
Four companies have secured other transaction agreements worth a combined $24.25 million to offer commercially based variants of the U.S. Army’s Common Tactical Truck. Mack Defense, Navistar Defense, Oshkosh Defense and the American Rheinmetall Vehicles–GM Defense team will each submit three prototypes of the M915 Line Haul Tractor and M...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) venture capital arm has invested in Machina Labs, a Los Angeles-based manufacturing company that uses artificial intelligence and robotics to make advanced sheet metal products. Machina Labs said Thursday the money will support research and development and business growth efforts as well as advance the production ...
