The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a $122.7 million contract to procure horizontal stabilizers for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 aerial refueling and airlift platform. The firm-fixed-price, fixed-quantity contract has a performance period of six years and two months, the Department of Defense said Monday. DLA’s avia...
Sensing capabilities are taking top priority for United States military branches as the Department of Defense looks to improve its intelligence strategy. The department’s recently published Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy lists the ability to “sense” as a critical function in command and control capabilities for the Joint Forces...
Forty Republican members of Congress have called on President Joe Biden to include in his fiscal year 2023 budget request a 5 percent increase in defense spending above the rate of inflation in light of increasing national security threats facing the country. The House and Senate lawmakers wrote in a Wednesday letter to the president...
Fred Kennedy, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s tactical technology office, has formed a company with the goal of developing nuclear thermal rocket engine technology to support cislunar space programs. Dark Fission Space Systems aims to work with government and industry partners in efforts to accelerate the on-orbi...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of defense systems business at Northrop Grumman, as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient for her efforts to help enable military and allied forces to interoperate and network across all domains as well as to continue advancing defense capabilities and services....
The Space Development Agency is planning to issue a solicitation in the coming weeks for a layer of low-Earth orbit satellites that will track adversarial missiles. SDA is expected to award contracts to two or more vendors for 28 spacecraft that will comprise the agency’s tracking layer of Tranche 1, which is slated to begin launching...
Leonardo has secured a contract to manufacture a pair of AW139 helicopters for the National Nuclear Security Administration‘s search and research and topographic surveying operations. The company said Tuesday the two aircraft units for NNSA will have an integrated avionics system that includes sensors and communications tools. NNSA uses sensor...
With just over six weeks left, voting for the Wash100 Award ranking of your 30 favorite executives continues to heat up. This week saw a series of decisive changes in the list, with a number of lucky individuals steadily making their way up the aggregated competition of executives in GovCon, government and industry. Your votes are...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present John Vollmer, CEO of Amentum, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award – an annually recognized class of distinguished figures in the government contracting community who demonstrate leadership, innovation, achievement and vision. Named to the Wash100 for the seventh time, Vollmer continues to be ranked amo...
Accenture Federal Services CEO John Goodman has been named a recipient of the Wash100 Award for 2022, the fifth consecutive year that he has been selected to Executive Mosaic’s annual list of leaders who continually drive growth and innovation in the government contracting sector. Visit Wash100.com today to cast a vote for Goodman as one of...
