Executive Mosaic, the government contracting sector’s leading media and events organization, is honored to announce the winners of the 2023 Wash100 Award in celebration of the award’s 10th anniversary. The Wash100 Award, GovCon’s most powerful accolade, annually honors the top 100 executives of consequence in the government contracting co...
Chris Soong, former chief information officer at HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies business, has been elevated to the positions of executive vice president and CIO at the Newport News, Virginia-headquartered company. His promotion is effective April 1 and he will succeed Bharat Amin, who is set to retire at the end of March after a...
5G paved the way for groundbreaking developments and advancements in communications networks over the past few years. Now, with the emergence of 6G and NextG, organizations across the public and private sectors are harnessing the power of spectrum to propel the country into a new era of networking. GovCon Wire spoke with Todd Martin, president ...
NASA has developed an objective-based procurement strategy to advance its ongoing Moon to Mars initiative, according to Karla Jackson, senior procurement executive and deputy chief acquisition officer at the space agency. While traditional Department of Defense procurement is based on capabilities, the objective-based approach is built around concr...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 14 companies spots on two contract modifications worth $419 million combined to provide maintenance, repair and modernization support services for littoral combat ships based in San Diego. Majority of the work will occur on the West Coast and the rest will be carried outside the continental U.S., including Singapore, throug...
By Mark Amtower When I speak at Association for Proposal Management Professional events, I hear of two problem areas regarding requests for proposals that have been with us for a long time. The first is we aren’t going to win because the contracting officer doesn’t know us. The second is someone got in early and...
The government contracting industry witnessed a number of strategic executive movements in 2022, including appointments and promotions to C-level roles as well as leadership changes meant to spur growth in public sector-focused practices. As the year draws to a close, Executive Mosaic‘s editorial team is sharing people moves that dominated the...
The Department of Defense’s Washington Headquarters Services is soliciting comments and recommendations as it plans to award an other transaction agreement to an organization to create and oversee a consortium that will help DOD accelerate access to commercial technologies. The WHS acquisition directorate expects the industrial base policy consort...
The year 2022 in government contracting featured new multibillion-dollar contract awards, major recompetes and some protests over agency procurement decisions. Before we shift into 2023, our editorial team is thrilled to share the most significant federal contracts of the past 12 months from Executive Mosaic’s media portfolio. Continue reading...
Maury Cupitt, regional vice president of sales engineering at Sonatype, said government agencies should understand the importance of visibility and automation in the detection and mitigation of risks associated with open source software components. Cupitt wrote that agencies should adopt a platform that could enable them to ensure the security of th...
