The White House intends to nominate Bill Nelson, a former senator from Florida, to serve as NASA administrator, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Sources said the Biden administration is expected to announce Nelson’s nomination as early as Friday, March 19. Nelson, a Democrat who served three terms in the Senate, was ranking member of the Senate Commer...
A joint venture between Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has been awarded a four-year, $182.2 million contract modification to repair MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft as part of the U.S. Navy’s common configuration readiness and modernization efforts. Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will also manufacture two u...
Danielle Metz has been appointed permanent deputy chief information officer for the information enterprise at the Department of Defense after more than three months in an acting capacity. She succeeded Peter Ranks, who stepped down in late November and returned to the intelligence community, and is responsible for overseeing enterprise infrastructur...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce John Vollmer, CEO of Amentum, as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, the most significant award of consequence to the government contracting (GovCon) sector, for his leadership in establishing ‘Amentum’ in the federal market and driving its significant growth through major contract awards and key acquisitions...
Alfred Grein, acting director of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, said the branch received four prototypes of its Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light platform from a QinetiQ North America–Pratt Miller partnership, Defense News reported Wednesday. He told attendees at an Association of the U....
Robert Ashley, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined Deep Water Point as a principal in support of the Annapolis, Maryland-based federal management consulting firm’s defense and intelligence business. Howard Seeger, managing partner of Deep Water Point, said in a statement published Wednesday Ashley will join a team of former senior m...
Jim Brinker, president and general manager of Intel Federal, has received his second consecutive Wash100 Award, as a part of the 2021 recipients, for leading the development of 5G tech and driving other emerging IT technology to improve capabilities for the federal government. “Jim Brinker is leading the federal program for Intel as general manage...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2020 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published a new article on Thursday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. For her latest article, GovCon Expert Kim Koster has issued a guide to help the government contracting (GovCon) community glean further...
Charles Peiffer, executive vice president and chief financial officer of PAE (Nasdaq: PAE), will assume additional responsibilities as interim president and CEO of the Falls Church, Virginia-based government services contractor starting Friday, March 19. Peiffer was appointed by the board after John Heller, a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, decided to st...
Redhorse, a San Diego-based government technology services contractor, has promoted Michael Rauseo to director of capture and Lance Orr to director of operations within its national security practice. Rauseo will utilize the company’s digital offerings in artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, DevSecOps and data science to capture new o...
