The State Department has cleared a potential $85 million foreign military sale of Raytheon Technologies-built (NYSE: RTX) Block IIIA Standard Missile-2 systems to support Chile's anti-air warfare arsenal....
Kathleen Hicks, President Joe Biden’s nominee as deputy defense secretary and an inductee into Executive Mosaic's Wash100 for 2021, said that she will drive the Department of Defense’s data prioritization during her Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Hicks added that she would lead by using data to inform business decisions. ...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a zero-based assessment of all advisory committees within the Department of Defense as part of a push to better align the efforts of advisory panels with the National Defense Strategy and other critical strategic priorities. Austin, an inductee into Executive Mosaic's Wash100 for 2021, signed a Jan. 30...
Congress has approved a waiver to facilitate the confirmation of Lloyd Austin, a retired U.S. Army general, as defense secretary under the administration of President Joe Biden, Defense News reported Thursday. The House voted 326-78 and the Senate passed in a 69-27 vote a congressional waiver that would exempt Austin from a law that requires...
Jerry McGinn, executive director of George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting, said he believes that reshoring production activities back to the U.S. will serve as the biggest challenge President Joe Biden must address. McGinn told Government Matters in an interview aired Tuesday that the incoming administration must work to iden...
Jeffrey Curtis, who previously worked for the Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency, has been named vice president of defense and supply chain at Plymouth, Indiana-based blockchain technology provider Simba Chain. He brings 33 years of DOD supply chain and logistics experience to his new position and will help the company navigate t...
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the federal government to launch an initiative to drive the adoption of small modular nuclear reactor technology across national defense and space missions. The EO is aimed at revitalizing the country’s nuclear energy sector and space exploration initiatives while developing alternativ...
The General Services Administration will remove from Multiple Award Schedules contracts unmanned aircraft systems and other drones to address potential security risks associated with the use of such devices. GSA said Tuesday its decision does not cover drones approved by the Defense Innovation Unit under the Blue sUAS program, which seeks to provide...
Booz Allen Hamilton executives Steve Escaravage, senior vice president, and Graham Gilmer, principal, will discuss how to advance technology at speed as well as how private-public partnerships are critical to maintaining the competitive advantage within the technology race during Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on...
Donald Heckman, a director in the advanced solutions unit of Guidehouse, has been named leader for defense cyber solutions at the McLean, Virginia-based management consulting firm....
