Barbara McQuiston, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said the Department of Defense has established a steering group focused on innovation, Nextgov reported Tuesday. “We’re very lucky we just started the innovation steering group under Deputy Secretary [Kathleen] Hicks, and what we...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $447.2 million order under a U.S. Navy basic ordering agreement to manufacture 12 MH-60R Seahawk multimission helicopters for South Korea. The order, which is intended to fulfill a foreign military sales requirement, covers production and delivery services, the Department of Defense said Monday. Naval Air S...
President Joe Biden has nominated Christine Wormuth, director of the RAND Corp.’s International Security and Defense Policy Center, as secretary of the U.S. Army. Wormuth served as the Department of Defense’s undersecretary for policy during the Obama administration where she helped inform the defense secretary’s decisions on national...
Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) aviation defense unit will help the U.S. Air Force maintain T-6 training aircraft under a sole-source indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth potentially $95.1 million over five years. Contract work covers sustaining engineering and program management support for the platform used to train military pilots, ...
Carey Smith, president and chief operating officer for Parsons, was presented her third Wash100 Award, the most celebrated and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award, during a recent visit to Parsons. For her 2021 Wash100 Award win, Executive Mosaic recogni...
Mike Madsen, deputy director and director of strategic engagement at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), has received his first Wash100 Award, the most significant award in government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership, innovation and success to drive commercial technology and partnerships to advance IT capabilities for both sectors. Visi...
Five companies have won spots on a five-year, $25 million contract to help the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command connect with external organizations to develop a science, technology, engineering and math talent pipeline. Contractors will support CCDC in networking pursuits in the government, commercial and academic sectors to...
The White House plans to introduce a $715 billion budget proposal for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2022, Politico reported Thursday. Politico cited sources that say the budget request would represent a 1.5 percent increase from DOD’s current FY 2021 budget allocation of approximately $704 billion and would be less than the previous...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology at the White House’s National Security Council (NSC), as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most respected award in all of government contracting (GovCon). This marks Neuberger’s second consecutive Wash100 Award. Fo...
Joshua Marcuse, head of Strategy and Innovation for Google’s global public sector business, has received his second consecutive Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), as a part of the 2021 recipients for his leadership and efforts to advance digital transformation, tech capabilities and drive indus...
