Matt Desch, who has led Iridium Communications as its CEO since 2006, received a recent visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the company’s office in McLean, VA. Garrettson officially presented Matt Desch with his 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon). “Matt’s busine...
Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was named chair of the new chief information security officer advisory board at data security company Rubrik. He will lead the board consisting of top information security experts and practitioners from several industries in providing Rubrik with data security prod...
The U.S. Navy is refocusing its priorities on cultivating and caring for a strong, capable workforce in the midst of a talent shortage crisis plaguing both government and industry. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said the service is working to identify and pursue new ways to meet the evolving and unique needs of today’s sailors, who...
Vishal Deshpande, a two-decade federal information technology market veteran, has joined Unissant as chief data analytics officer. He will oversee the development and implementation of the company’s technical vision, roadmap and strategy related to data and advanced analytics and help accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine ...
The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on potential industry sources with experience and capabilities to meet the requirements of the second iteration of the C-17 Aircraft Globemaster Operational Enhancements program. The proposed C-17 Aircraft GLOBE 2.0 contract will include research and development efforts, 3600 and 3010 funded studies and tria...
The Department of Defense and the National Spectrum Consortium have asked industry and academia for insights, ideas and other feedback through a call for whitepapers as part of efforts to speed up the development, production and testing of 5G Open Radio Access Network technologies in the U.S. Virtualization and open architecture development has been...
DOD Issues Economic Price Adjustment Guidance; David Harrison Named QinetiQ US Business Operations VP; NASA Announces 2 Awardees of $3.5B Spacesuit Development IDIQ; Executive Spotlight With Paul Meyer of Raytheon I&S Department 22 Click to Unmute...
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has received European Commission clearance and other antitrust approvals required for the company’s proposed acquisition of Missouri-based health information technology maker Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN). Oracle agreed to acquire Cerner for approximately $28.3 billion through an all-cash tender offer in December and the Austin, Te...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Owl Cyber Defense Solutions positions on a potential five-year, $249.1 million contract to provide development, testing and implementation support for the Foreign Military Sales Cross Domain Solutions program. FMS CDS is an information assurance method that seeks to deliver the ...
In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Todd Probert, president of National Security and Innovative Solutions at CACI and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, to talk about his career with the multinational professional services and information technology company as well as its recent growth initiatives. The Q&A also tackle...
