GovConWire's Government Contracting News 2/4/2022

Kevin Plexico, senior vice president for information solutions at Deltek and a key member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, has been named to the list of 2022 Wash100 Award winners for his leadership for Deltek and GovWin as well as his drive to lead the market research for the government contracting (GovCon) industry. He

Kathy Morgan, most recently vice president of corporate law at Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM), took on a new role as chief legal officer at the McLean, Virginia-based satellite operator. She succeeded Tom Hickey, the former CLO who helped the company secure regulatory approvals for various satellite services during his decadelong career there, Iridium said Thursday.

Activities in line with President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability – which calls for a holistic approach across all federal government agencies to achieve 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity usage and purchases by 2030 – are underway within the Department of Defense. The DOD, in conjunction with

John Sherman, chief information officer at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, will assume responsibility for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program from the office of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment as part of a realignment effort. “The CMMC team, led by Stacy Bostjanick, will be aligned under

The Potomac Officers Club’s Achieve Information Dominance: Counter Gray Zone Warfare Through Unifying Data Forum on Wednesday united top officials from military branches, industry organizations and the Department of Defense in timely conversations on the role of data and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the United States’ hybrid warfare strategies as threats escalate. The event marked

Anthony Rizzo, a two-decade veteran of the data center services industry, has been appointed vice president for the public sector business at CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE). He will oversee the real estate investment trust’s public sector and federal group located in Northern Virginia, where the company maintains more than 1.9 million square feet of data center

The State Department has approved a potential $4.21 billion foreign military sale of F-16 Block 70 aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), and related equipment to the Jordanian government. Jordan asked to procure a dozen units of the updated F-16 C and four of the D configuration to support the country’s fighter aircraft fleet

In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with GovCon Expert Jill Singer, vice president of defense and national security for AT&T Public Sector and FirstNet, about the company’s work in support of the intelligence community, Department of Defense and other government customers. Here’s an excerpt from the interview with Singer discussing AT&T’s selection

Executive Mosaic has introduced Dave Young, senior vice president of strategic sales at Lumen Technologies, as one of the 2022 Wash100 most influential figures in the government contracting sector. This marks his third selection in the nine-year history of the award. Young was previously inducted into the 2018 and 2019 editions of the Wash100 when

Two NASA veterans and two aerospace industry executives started up a new company that is developing a robotic platform to support cislunar space exploration and missions in various Earth orbits. Quantum Space aims to provide satellite deployment, payload hosting, data acquisition and logistics services to customers through the use of a commercial robotic outpost, the