The private sector is known for its rapid technological innovation process unencumbered by bureaucracy, restrictive requirements or mysterious funding procedures. Unfortunately, these qualities have not typically described the innovation process within the U.S. federal government; but now, public sector leaders are taking a page from the commercial ...
Axient CEO Randy Cash has promoted company executives Jay Kovacs, Patience Samson and Port Dubon to C-level positions. Kovacs, most recently senior vice president of growth strategies, will now serve as chief innovation officer and oversee Axient’s innovation and growth strategy and technical capability expansion efforts in data analytics and digi...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $214.5 million contract to conduct initial engineering efforts for international partner vessels equipped with the Aegis combat system. Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business will help foreign military sales customers assess ship modernization plans and select new weapon...
A joint venture of consulting firms Pond and Woolpert, will continue to perform architecture and engineering work at government installations under a $160 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The PWJV has supported the planning and programming of Department of Defense and non-DOD real property assets since 2018, the comp...
A Huntsville, Alabama-based joint venture of AI Signal Research Inc. and ERC has won a five-year, $840 million contract to perform test and engineering work for the U.S. Army. Joint Technical Solutions bested four other bidders for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, according to a Tuesday award notice on the Department of Defense’s website. The...
The heightening peer and near-peer competition undoubtedly stands as the Department of Defense’s most critical priority today. Global powers like China and Russia have publicly demonstrated their advancements in weapons systems, next-generation technology and other crucial areas, and the United States is strategizing how to maintain its dominance ...
Executive Mosaic is excited to recognize the impressive achievements of Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, with the 2023 Wash100 Award. Shyu earns the distinction — her third win total and second consecutive — due to a persistent support of technological modernization through dogged organizational maneu...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $1.2 billion contract to develop two variants of the E-7 airborne early warning and control aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. E-7 comes with an Agile software design and open systems architecture to facilitate the integration of new capabilities and serves as an integrated command-and-control node to provide...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to refine their proposed concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor under modifications to their other transaction prototype agreements with the Missile Defense Agency. The companies will further develop their interceptor concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile de...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) business unit will help the U.S. Navy engineer and maintain Mark 48 heavyweight torpedoes under a potential five-year, $91.9 million contract. Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems segment will perform work for the branch’s Intermediate Maintenance Activity in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the De...
