By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Phase 1 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is live. The DFARS acquisition rule took effect on November 10, 2025, and DoD has begun incorporating CMMC requirements into new solicitations and contracts. Yet misconceptions about CMMC persist across the defense indus...
Lockheed Martin has received a U.S. Navy contract modification valued at $132.9 million to continue providing flight test support for the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Recent Navy contract actions with industry underscore the service’s continued focus on innovation, sustainment and operational readiness across key platforms. These priorities...
Lockheed Martin has appointed Mark Kvasnak, currently vice president and chief financial officer of the company’s rotary and mission systems, or RMS, business area, as VP of investor relations, effective March 16. The Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace and defense contractor said Thursday Kvasnak will succeed Maria Ricciardone, who will remain VP ...
Technology company Alpha Omega has appointed industry executive Michael Bruce as senior vice president of national security. In a LinkedIn post published Monday, the company said Bruce’s appointment comes as it continues to expand its national security portfolio. Who Is Michael Bruce? Bruce is an executive with more than two decades of leaders...
SMX has appointed Robert Longo as senior vice president of capture strategy and business development for its enterprise systems and solutions business unit. The company announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, highlighting Longo’s over two decades of executive leadership experience in steering enterprise-level modernizations an...
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, has issued a request for proposals for a potential $61.5 billion contract to manage and operate the Savannah River Site, or SRS. What Is the Scope of the Savannah River Site M&O Contract? The department said Friday that NNSA intends to award a standalone, pe...
SAIC has secured a $95 million contract from the Government Accountability Office to provide enterprise IT services under the Technical Information Services program. The company said Thursday the award covers end-to-end IT support intended to modernize GAO’s technology environment and improve system performance, security and user experience ac...
BAE Systems has received a U.S. Army contract worth more than $500 million to produce additional M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers and M992A3 ammunition carriers for the service branch. As the Army advances major modernization efforts, including continued investment in platforms like M109A7 Paladin, senior leaders and industry executives will ...
The General Services Administration has awarded 48 vendors positions on the women-owned small business, or WOSB, pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, for IT products and services. The latest round of awards under a governmentwide IT contract vehicle underscores the continued demand for agile, high-performing techno...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and one of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Experts In the current digital environment, supply chains are essential to national security, vital infrastructure and international trade. They have, however, also emerged as one of the most often used attack methods in cybersecurity. Cybercrimi...
