The Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services has issued a draft request for white papers on the establishment of an industrial base policy consortium to help expand DOD’s access to commercially available technologies. WHS plans to award a consortium-managed other transaction agreement in support of the agency’s Manu...
Michael Herrington, former division vice president and general manager at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been appointed CEO of Arlington, Virginia-based government information technology provider Tsymmetry. He brings to his new position more than two decades of industry experience in corporate strategy development and execution and global operations leade...
Raul Sagun, vice president of business development at DCS Corp. since 2016, has been promoted to chief growth officer. He will be responsible for driving DCS’ corporate growth strategy and centralizing its mergers and acquisitions process, the employee-owned professional services company said Thursday. Sagun previously served as director ...
Nine companies have won spots on a $995 million multiple-award contract vehicle for advisory and assistance services to U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform technical and analytical work in support of USAFE-AFAFRICA’s policy development, administration and system operations throug...
President Joe Biden’s budget request for fiscal year 2024 includes $842 billion in defense spending and Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 Award recipient, said the proposed DOD budget would enable the Pentagon to continue the implementation of the National Defense Strategy and invest in capabilities that could...
The U.S. Navy has issued a $622 million award to TranLogistics, a transportation and supply chain services provider, as a modification of a potential 10-year multiple-award contract for husbanding services that was originally announced in 2020. The amendment to the previously awarded $2.12 billion contract adds new providers for the remaining three ...
David Goldfein, a retired U.S. Air Force general and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been named to the national security advisory board of Shield Capital. Goldfein, former Air Force chief of staff, will bring to NSAB and Shield’s portfolio companies his insights and experience in capability integration across cybersecurity, space operations and in...
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...
