Federal Advisory Partners, a Sagewind Capital portfolio company, has bought Universal Consulting Services for an undisclosed sum to further expand its client base and digital service capabilities in support of customers in the federal market. “As demand for modernization and digital transformation accelerates across the federal sector, the need fo...
The Space Development Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and York Space Systems prototype agreements valued at approximately $1.8 billion combined to build and demonstrate 126 satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The Tranche 1 Transport Layer is exp...
Climate experts from government, industry and academia convened Thursday to discuss the challenges, opportunities, previous achievements and future goals surrounding the United States’ climate change mitigation efforts in the context of global climate progress and in accordance with the 2016 Paris Agreement. Steve Ambrose, chief climate scientist ...
A Fincantieri subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $78.7 million contract to help the U.S. Navy maintain Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships. Fincantieri Marine Systems North America will assign technicians and provide program management support to the service branch’s planned corrective and maintenance efforts for MCM-1 vessels,...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, as an inductee into the 2022 Wash100 — an annual list of public and private sector leaders who are at the forefront of trends and events that shape government contracting activity. This marks the second consecutive year that Hicks has been...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present John Zangardi, CEO of Redhorse Corp., as an inductee into the 2022 class of the renowned Wash100 Award. Since 2014, the prestigious distinction has recognized the top 100 most elite executives in the government contracting community for their influence, vision, achievements and impact across the federal landsc...
Rumblings of frustration surrounding the Department of Defense’s information technology shortcomings quickly grew into a roar last month as military service branch operators, warfighters and federal leaders took to social media to shed light on the severity of the department’s widespread IT issues and the urgency of solving them. In January, Mi...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has secured a potential five-year, $162 million other transaction authority agreement from the Defense Information Systems Agency to build and deploy an identity, credential and access management platform for Department of Defense applications. GDIT said Wednesday it will continue...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will develop a 5G communications network testbed for the U.S. Marine Corps and the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering under a $19.3 million prototype project agreement with the Department of Defense. Lockheed said Wednesday it will work with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), DISH Wireless, Rampart Co...
The Department of Defense has released a report that provides an overview of the state of competition in the defense industrial base and offers recommendations to promote competition in the DIB. The five recommendations outlined in the report are strengthening merger oversight; addressing intellectual property limitations; increasing new entrants; i...
