GovConWire's Government Contracting News 2/7/2022

Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, as a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient to recognize her deep conviction that the defense industry plays a vital role in bringing advanced technologies to the military. This marks her eighth Wash100 win in the nine-year history of Executive Mosaic’s annual selection

The Senate has confirmed Andrew Hunter, formerly director of the Center for Strategic International Studies’ defense-industrial initiatives group, to serve as assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics. Hunter’s nomination to the position was first announced in July 2021. At CSIS, he focused his research on the defense acquisition system,

Boyden Rohner, associate director of vulnerability management at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will lend her insights to a panel discussion about the current information security environment at GovCon Wire’s Feb. 23 virtual event. Rohner has two decades of national security experience and leads CISA’s initiatives to safeguard the supply chain from cyber vulnerabilities.

Client Solution Architects, a digital transformation consultancy backed by Blue Delta Capital Partners, has named the seven members of CSA’s board of directors, seven months after its acquisition of Capstone. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania-based CSA said Monday founder Lee Arroyo serves as executive chairperson and CEO Amy Bleken will serve as a member of the board. Mark

The Department of Defense has approved a strategy to help facilitate the “delivery of resilient software capability at the speed of relevance.” DOD’s Software Modernization Strategy has three goals and the first one seeks to accelerate the department’s enterprise cloud environment, the department said Friday. Objectives under the first goal include maturing an innovative portfolio

Garett Presson, formerly vice president of enterprise platforms at Abt Associates, has been promoted to global chief information officer of the Rockville, Maryland-based consulting and research company. He will lead the global strategy and operations of Abt’s information technology organization with responsibility for cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise platforms and corporate technology delivery functions, the company said

ExecutiveBiz featured Joe Boeckx, executive vice president at Tenax Aerospace, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. He talked about the company’s organic growth in the aerospace sector, his transition from military service into defense and government contracting career, as well as military service branches’ JADC2 and digital transformation work. Here’s an excerpt

The U.S. Army is seeking information on potential industry sources of line of sight communications capabilities that could be interoperable with terrestrial LOS radios and provide greater throughput and other improved capabilities. The service expects the LOSC2 system to boost transmission diversity of an internet protocol-based architecture to further communications capability between existing terrestrial radios

Michael Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the Department of Defense should work with industry and academia to address the increasing challenges posed by cyber and asymmetric warfare. Brown wrote in a guest piece published Saturday on TechCrunch that DOD is advancing a technology modernization agenda that

Executive Mosaic has introduced Bill Monet, president and CEO of Akima, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award for his commitment to stewarding the company’s growth and continued support to federal government customers. This award represents Monet’s third consecutive selection to the premier group of 100 executives with staying power and influence in the