Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recorded its first weekly loss in eight weeks after sliding 0.19% to $4,880.45. Decliners also outnumbered gainers on Friday. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, lost 1.17% overall week-on-week. Wall Street was swamped with economic reports, mostly inflation-related re...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, as an inductee into the 2024 Wash100 — an annual list of public and private sector leaders who are at the forefront of trends and events shaping the government contracting activity. Vote for Hicks as your favorite GovCon leader as...
At the end of 2023, Steve Harris became the president and general manager of the newly established public sector business unit at Alteryx, a data science and analytics tools provider in the GovCon market. Executive Mosaic recently sat down with Harris, a six-time Wash100 Award winner, to learn more about how artificial intelligence is shaping the...
In today’s security environment — defined by an intensifying global competition and an increase in geopolitical tensions — data has become essential. The ability to share data and leverage it to drive decisions is an essential piece of the CJADC2 puzzle, and Department of Defense leaders are taking a closer look at how they’re harnessing...
Maggie Hallbach, a two-decade Verizon veteran, was included in Executive Mosaic’s esteemed selection of Wash100 Award winners for the second straight year in recognition of her networks- and 5G-focused efforts as senior vice president of the company’s public sector and president of Verizon Frontline. Vote for Hallbach as one of your favorite...
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded Parsons (NYSE: PSN) and SeaTech Global Security Solutions positions on a potential seven-year, $1 billion contract to support the deployment of counter nuclear smuggling systems. The vendors will perform design, construction, integration, communications, logistics, tra...
Paul Sartorius, solution integration director at Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) national security space business, announced via LinkedIn that he has taken the role of vice president and general manager of Cubic’s digital intelligence group. He has more than 21 years of experience in defense contracting, having started as a senior systems engineer ...
Matt Barry, chief operating officer at HP Federal, noted that threat actors can use endpoints as vectors that could enable them to infiltrate an organization’s network and highlighted the importance of security by design to ensure the security of such endpoints and safeguard government and contractor systems. “When we design more secure solu...
President Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence was seen as a watershed, a ruling that acknowledged both the capacity for tremendous good and harmful risk inherent in AI technologies. It and its attendant guidance, issued by the Office of Management and Budget, se...
A Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $1.3 billion blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Homeland Security to provide DHS component agencies access to all Microsoft product offerings listed on the General Services Administration Schedule. DHS launched a full and open competition for the recompete...
