Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from r...
The U.S. Army Contracting Command has started its solicitation process for a potential $99 million small business set-aside contract to procure development, sustainment and technical support services, on behalf of the branch’s Communication Electronics Command Software Engineering Center. A selected vendor will help the CECOM SEC to develop, m...
After a competitive four months and tens of thousands of votes, Executive Mosaic is excited to announce that the winner of the 2023 Wash100 popular vote competition is the resolute Department of Defense cornerstone, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. This year, a staggering nearly 40,000 votes were cast in support of the esteemed recipients of the 2...
Some of our nation’s most critical systems are facing increasingly complex and dangerous threats as hackers grow more sophisticated and even the smallest vulnerabilities leave organizations exposed. Executive Mosaic sat down with Matt Heideman, president and general manager of Xage Security Government, to take a closer look at the ...
Thomas Bell, former CEO of Rolls-Royce’s North American subsidiary and president of its global defense business, has officially assumed responsibilities as Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) new chief executive. In late February, Bell was named successor to Roger Krone, a 10-time Wash100 Award winner who took on the CEO role in July 2014 and added the cha...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has booked a five-year, $1.44 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to continue developing warfighting capabilities for the F-35 program. The company will develop Multiship Infrared Search and Track Increment 2, Electronic Warfare Band 2/5 Radar Warning Receiver, Beyond Line of Sight communications and Modernized Countermea...
Arnold Nowinski, former executive director of the launch and safety business at Axient, has been elevated to a vice president role within the same unit under Axient’s national security space segment. He will lead a team of engineers and scientists that conducts new entrant certification for launch platforms, verifies system safety at U.S. Spac...
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies business will support the U.S. Navy’s shore-based training systems under a potential five-year, $242 million task order. The project will include applying a DevSecOps model to the hardware and software product development life cycle in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Da...
Space is at its largest inflection point in decades, and as commercial space activity continues to rise, United States government leaders are taking a page from industry’s book on how to drive more rapid innovation, especially in the face of increasing global competition. While technology and acquisition processes are typically at the center of th...
DCS has won a potential eight-year, $2.09 billion contract to support a U.S. Army research and development laboratory that works on advanced technology for military ground systems. Army Contracting Command received three bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covering technical and engineering services to the Combat Capabilities Development Comma...
