Patrick Shanahan, former acting secretary of the Department of Defense and a previous Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of directors at defense and security platforms manufacturer CAE. Shanahan has gained three decades of sector experience and expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cybersecurity modernization, th...
Executive Mosaic has recognized Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in the 2022 Wash100 class to recognize her strategic vision for public-private cyber defense collaboration and information sharing. Easterly received Senate confirmation to head CISA in July 2021 and came to the agency from Morgan Stanley,...
Gregg Melanson, executive vice president and general manager of Illuminate, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Friday. He talked about the latest technology trends, Illuminate’s efforts with federal agencies to help the latter address innovation challenges and the company’s recent acquisitions that co...
GovCIO and Torch.AI have teamed up to provide the Department of Defense with an artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help DOD process and glean insights from unstructured data. Torch.AI will provide its AI-based software platform Nexus and work with GovCIO to help the department identify data features and extract intelligence f...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to spend between $200 million and $275 million for the construction of a maintenance facility for the B-21 Raider bomber’s weapon systems. USACE said Friday in a SAM.gov notice it seeks market information to determine potential industry sources to carry out the Weapons Generation Facility project at Ell...
Huntington Ingalls Industries, which now operates as HII (NYSE: HII) as part of a rebranding effort, changed the name of its Technical Solutions division to Mission Technologies after a series of acquisitions and the expansion of its national security capabilities. Andy Green, an executive vice president of HII, will serve as president of HII’s Mi...
The countdown clock has officially begun – there is just one month remaining until voting closes for the user-generated ranking of the 2022 Wash100 Award! For two months now, the most popular executives in government contracting, the federal sector and adjacent industries have battled it out, powered by your votes. Out of the complete list of...
Executive Mosaic has featured Michael Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, in the 2022 Wash100 class for his leadership in agency efforts to bring advanced commercial technology to the U.S. military. This marks the first time Brown has been selected to Executive Mosaic’s annual list of leaders who shape the government contracting la...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award – an annual recognition of government contracting executives who have demonstrated an elite level of vision, leadership and innovation within the federal landscape. This year, Brady receives his third consec...
The U.S. Navy has selected the Remus 300 unmanned underwater vehicle from Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as the military service’s next generation small UUV program of record. HII photo The branch made the selection after a rapid prototyping initiative that ran for two years and will move the Lionfish SUUV program forward with UUV...
