Gilat Satellite Networks (Nasdaq: GILT) has agreed to acquire secure Duluth, Georgia-based communications platforms provider DataPath for an undisclosed sum to expand the Israeli company’s defense market footprint. Gilat said Thursday it expects the acquisition to conclude in the third quarter of 2023, pending approval from the Committee on Fo...
President Joe Biden’s budget request for fiscal year 2024 includes $842 billion in defense spending and Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 Award recipient, said the proposed DOD budget would enable the Pentagon to continue the implementation of the National Defense Strategy and invest in capabilities that could...
David Goldfein, a retired U.S. Air Force general and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been named to the national security advisory board of Shield Capital. Goldfein, former Air Force chief of staff, will bring to NSAB and Shield’s portfolio companies his insights and experience in capability integration across cybersecurity, space operations and in...
The U.S. federal government has sharpened its focus on cybersecurity in recent months; the Department of Defense released its zero trust strategy and roadmap at the close of 2022, and the Biden-Harris administration debuted a new national cybersecurity strategy just last week. In a statement published March 2, 2023 the White House said the...
Executive Mosaic is excited to honor Pat Mungovan, senior vice president of Oracle’s North American government and education business, with his second Wash100 Award in acknowledgment of his leadership in driving Oracle’s continued growth and expanding its presence as a staple provider of cloud services for the public sector. In it...
The private sector is known for its rapid technological innovation process unencumbered by bureaucracy, restrictive requirements or mysterious funding procedures. Unfortunately, these qualities have not typically described the innovation process within the U.S. federal government; but now, public sector leaders are taking a page from the commercial ...
A joint venture of consulting firms Pond and Woolpert, will continue to perform architecture and engineering work at government installations under a $160 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The PWJV has supported the planning and programming of Department of Defense and non-DOD real property assets since 2018, the comp...
The heightening peer and near-peer competition undoubtedly stands as the Department of Defense’s most critical priority today. Global powers like China and Russia have publicly demonstrated their advancements in weapons systems, next-generation technology and other crucial areas, and the United States is strategizing how to maintain its dominance ...
Cybersecurity has taken the global stage with the prominence of electronic warfare tactics in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but cyber aggression isn’t only a symptom of major geopolitical conflict. It can and does happen with frequency in peacetime and other more unexpected windows as well. La Monte Yarborough “While events such as t...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Aaron Weis, chief information officer at the Department of the Navy, as an inductee into the 2023 edition of the Wash100 for his leadership in defining digital modernization objectives as part of his information superiority framework for DON in the year ahead. This is the fourth consecutive year Executive...
