Lisa Atherton, chief operating officer of Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary, has been chosen to lead the helicopter manufacturer as president and CEO. Her promotion is effective April 28 and she will succeed Mitch Synder, who will retire from Bell after nearly two decades of service, Textron said Monday. Atherton served as Textron Systems&...
Executive Mosaic is excited to bestow the 2023 Wash100 Award to Byron Bright, president of KBR Government Solutions. Bright is a seasoned government contracting veteran who this year exceeded expectations through his company’s dedication to providing technical assistance to all manner of U.S. military weapon systems, vehicles, aircrafts, as well...
General Motors‘ (NYSE: GM) defense subsidiary has received U.S. Army approval to commence the Infantry Squad Vehicle program’s full-rate production phase, nearly three years after the manufacturer won a $214.3 million initial contract to develop the all-terrain carrier of soldiers and equipment. The 5,000-pound ISV platform is designed t...
Photo Contributor: Tsuguliev/Shutterstock The defense industry is one of the world’s largest and most competitive industries. The U.S. federal government agencies under the Department of Defense are actively procuring defense products and upgrading existing systems with the latest technology to strengthen the nation’s military fo...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to announce the 2023 Wash100 induction of Lieutenant General Robert Skinner, the dual-hatted director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and commander of Joint Force Headquarters of the Department of Defense Information Network. Skinner, a standout in this year’s crop of public sector Wash100 awardees, earn...
NVIDIA Federal Vice President Anthony Robbins has been inducted into the 2023 edition of Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for his continued efforts to promote partnerships and advanced computing tools designed to empower innovation across the public sector. This is the sixth time Executive Mosaic has chosen Robbins to the annual Wash100 list of exec...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, as a winner of the 2023 Wash100 Award for leading the company to record-high backlog and strong order activity and overseeing efforts to meet the needs of defense customers amid the rapidly changing threat environment. This recognition marks her ninth Was...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has won a 10-year, $994 million contract to provide logistics and maintenance support for the U.S. Air Force’s C-32A and C-40B/C executive transport planes. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will include aircraft modification and program management services, the Department of Defense said Friday. Work will ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential $235.9 million contract modification to manufacture updated surface electronic warfare systems for the U.S. Navy. Naval Sea Systems Command exercised the option under a previously awarded contract for the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 3 Hemisphere Systems initiative, the Dep...
The U.S. government’s technology pipeline can be bound up in years of regulations, requirements and confirmation. In the military specifically, the process of developing, prototyping, testing and delivering a tool to the warfighter can take years. It has left defense components scrambling for new sources of innovation, striving to speed the proces...
