GovConWire's Government Contracting News 2/2/2022

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100, the seventh time she’s won the prestigious award in the nine-year history of Executive Mosaic’s annual list of executives with staying power and influence in the government contracting sector. Warden took the helm of the Falls Church, Virginia-based company

Thomas Terjesen, an information technology executive, has joined ASRC Federal as senior vice president and chief information officer. ASRC Federal said Tuesday in a LinkedIn post that Terjesen will lead its corporate IT strategy and he brings more than 23 years of industry experience to his new position. He came to the Beltsville, Maryland-based technology

The Office of Management and Budget released a new federal zero trust strategy that requires government agencies to meet robust cybersecurity standards and aims to reinforce federal defense capabilities against a rising number of threats on critical government infrastructure and operations. OMB’s strategy, released via memorandum on Jan. 26, builds on President Biden’s May 2021

The Defense Innovation Unit awarded 72 prototype other transaction contracts to commercial companies and transitioned eight commercial platforms to Department of Defense end-users in fiscal year 2021, bringing DIU’s cumulative transition rate to 41 percent. The number of awarded prototype OT contracts reflects a 31 percent rise from FY 2020, according to DIU’s annual report.

Anduril Industries has purchased Boston-based autonomous underwater vehicle manufacturer Dive Technologies in a strategy to add undersea coverage to the defense technology provider’s portfolio of unmanned systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquired company’s DIVE-LD platform can be tailored to match military requirements for undersea battlespace awareness, anti-submarine warfare and mine

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor and Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner and chief strategy officer at K2 Integrity and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2022, recently joined in an exclusive fireside chat to discuss global financial trends, imperative national security and cybersecurity issues and federal government implications as they relate to cryptocurrencies. The fireside chat

Executive Mosaic has introduced William Burns, director of the CIA, as an inductee into the 2022 Wash100 in recognition of his efforts to shape the future of national security and intelligence. This marks Burns’ second consecutive selection to the annual list of highly esteemed public and private sector figures with influence in the government contracting

A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $105 million contract to perform technical collection and communications work for U.S. Special Operations Command. USSOCOM received two bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and selected Raytheon Blackbird Technologies to provide field service representatives to support the command’s special reconnaissance missions, the Department of Defense

AT&T (NYSE: T) has demonstrated 5G network capabilities for the U.S. Navy as part of a 5G-based warehouse project backed by the Department of Defense. The company said Tuesday its 5G network showed data throughput speeds of more than 4 gigabits per second and latency of less than 10 milliseconds on commodity mobile devices at

Frank Jimenez, former general counsel at the Department of the Navy and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), joined the board of directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII). His appointment took effect Thursday and he is admitted to District of Columbia, New York, Florida and U.S. Supreme Court bars, HII said Tuesday. Jimenez previously held the