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 introduce Amentum CEO John Heller as a 2023 Wash100 awardee, marking his seventh selection to the annual list of significant government contracting industry growth contributors. Heller has been recognized for his leadership in advancing the development of technology capabilities in support of mission-critical customers...
Axient CEO Randy Cash has promoted company executives Jay Kovacs, Patience Samson and Port Dubon to C-level positions. Kovacs, most recently senior vice president of growth strategies, will now serve as chief innovation officer and oversee Axient’s innovation and growth strategy and technical capability expansion efforts in data analytics and digi...
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 ...
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...
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...
Blue Ivy Partners has secured a three-year, $148.6 million contract to license and deploy software applications for the U.S. Air Force’s Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile system. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center awarded the Software as a Service 2.0 contract on a sole-source acquisition basis and will obligate an initial $14.3 mi...
At the helm of Leidos, one of the major players in the government contracting market, CEO and Chairman Roger Krone is spearheading the company’s growth and guiding the organization through an era marked by heightened competition both within the GovCon ecosystem and on the global stage. Under Krone’s leadership, Leidos has doubled its revenue t...
A joint venture between Modern Technology Solutions Inc. and nou Systems has won a potential $637.1 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency develop a layered system for defending against missile attacks. Huntsville, Alabama-based nTSI will engineer hypersonic defense, cybersecurity, space and threat systems as part of the cost-plus-fixed...
Five companies will compete for orders under a five-year, $75 million contract to perform design, construction, repair and maintenance services at the Grand Forks Air Force Base and Cavalier Space Force Station in North Dakota. The Grand Forks AFB’s 319th Contracting Squadron received 10 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity c...
