GovConWire's Government Contracting News 3/24/2022

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Reginald “Reggie” Brothers, CEO of BigBear.ai, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award, which annually recognizes the top 100 “executives of consequence” for their impact, innovation, vision and achievements within the government contracting community and across the federal landscape. Brothers, a GovCon Expert, receives this year’s award for leading BigBear.ai’s growth

Peraton will provide management support to a NASA facility that hosts balloon-based scientific experiments under a potential seven-year, $339.1 million contract. The space agency officially named Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. as the awardee for the follow-on NASA Balloon Operations Contract. Peraton said in a LinkedIn post it picked up the original award and the follow-on

Rob Lalumondier, a more than 20-year industry veteran, has been named vice president of the federal business unit at cybersecurity company Sophos. He will be responsible for leading the segment’s strategy to help public sector clients automated platforms designed to protect agency data, networks and users against ransomware and cyber threats, Sophos said Wednesday. Lalumondier

The Department of Defense is placing high priority on the development of secure, resilient mission partner environments as it moves forward with its highly-anticipated Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. “Modernizing mission partner information sharing” is one of the five key lines of effort that make up the Department of Defense’s JADC2 Strategy and classified implementation

The U.S. Air Force has made considerable progress in areas like its adoption of zero trust and the development of an enterprise data fabric, but the service branch still has work to do in transforming its networks and moving its data centers to the cloud. Currently, the Air Force is leading the way in the

Ann Rusher, formerly vice president of trusted space solutions at space and intelligence segment at General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business, has been named VP of supply chain management. She succeeds Scotty Miller, who retired from his role at GDMS on Friday after more than four decades of service, and will oversee subcontract management

Stan Hawkins, a nearly 13-year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service, has joined Maximus (NYSE: MMS) as vice president and strategic client executive for the company’s federal civilian business. “I look forward to bringing my years of public service knowledge to Maximus as the company seeks more ways to help federal agencies best utilize the

Phillip Ritter, a wireless data network expert, has joined Nokia’s federal team, GovCon Wire has learned. He will oversee the federal division’s research and development efforts and serve as a subject matter expert on matters related to mobile core and transport platforms. Ritters has over 30 years of experience leading the design and deployment of

Executive Mosaic has named Stephanie Mango, president of CGI Federal, as one of the inductees into the 2022 Wash100 Award in recognition of her efforts in leading company expansion and driving federal priorities and digital transformation. This is the first time that Mango has been named among Executive Mosaic’s most notable executives and officials in

ExecutiveBiz featured Michael Parker, vice president of business development at Salesforce, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He talked about his more than three decades of experience in public sector and how it could help with his responsibilities in his new role at the company. Discussions also covered the Salesforce Military Program,