In the midst of a massive Department of Defense focus shift toward the looming peer and near-peer competition, federal and industry leaders are figuring out how to inject agility and speed into our country’s defense strategies. One particular area that’s becoming more crucial to winning the future fight is technological superiority. Executive Mo...
The heightening peer and near-peer competition undoubtedly stands as the Department of Defense’s most critical priority today. Global powers like China and Russia have publicly demonstrated their advancements in weapons systems, next-generation technology and other crucial areas, and the United States is strategizing how to maintain its dominance ...
by Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet As heated as competition for government contracts is these days, being good enough is, well, no longer good enough. To win new business and grow the bottom line, GovCon firms must find creative ways to distinguish themselves from the thousands of other firms that crowd the...
Executive Mosaic is excited to recognize the impressive achievements of Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, with the 2023 Wash100 Award. Shyu earns the distinction — her third win total and second consecutive — due to a persistent support of technological modernization through dogged organizational maneu...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $1.2 billion contract to develop two variants of the E-7 airborne early warning and control aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. E-7 comes with an Agile software design and open systems architecture to facilitate the integration of new capabilities and serves as an integrated command-and-control node to provide...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to refine their proposed concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor under modifications to their other transaction prototype agreements with the Missile Defense Agency. The companies will further develop their interceptor concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile de...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a one-year, $146.4 million task order to perform background investigation fieldwork nationwide for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. The firm-fixed-price task order is part of a single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract announced in December. DCSA used fis...
Jon Piatt, former president of the reconnaissance mission systems unit at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), has been appointed executive vice president of Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s ISR, aviation and security business area. The three-decade industry veteran will oversee a portfolio of aircraft modification programs and projects supporting the Depa...
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s communications network — the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, or JWICS — started over three decades ago with an experiment to transmit a video feed securely between DIA headquarters and the Pentagon. Since then, JWICS has evolved into the top-secret sensitive, compartmented information, or S...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will continue the development of air-to-ground weapon system offerings for a U.S. Air Force program under separate contracts worth nearly $54 million combined. USAF awarded $18 million each to Lockheed and Northrop and another $17.7 million to L3Harris fo...
