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oversees day-to-day content production for ExecutiveBiz, a publication under Executive Mosaic's media group covering government contracting industry news. She also writes about executive movements and commentaries, M&A activities, contract awards and technology and service offerings of medium-sized businesses and other GovCon companies. Prior to assuming her current responsibilities with EBiz, Thropp produced daily competitive intelligence briefings for the company's GovCon customers.
Edward Daly, a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army, will join the board of directors of semiconductor manufacturer SkyWater Technology on Oct. 1. The former commanding general of the Army Materiel Command brings to SkyWater nearly four decades of experience in serving the military and most recently leading a command responsible for logistics, sustainment/materiel […] More
Blackwatch International will provide Defense Microelectronics Activity laboratories with manufacturing sustainment and engineering support under a potential $96.9 million contract. The single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a five year ordering period for task orders to support DMEA’s Advanced Reconfigurable Manufacturing for Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits Manufacturing Support Labs, the Department of Defense said Monday. […] More
Justin Litko was elevated to the role of vice president of SOF operations at BlueHalo where he previously served as chief of staff, according to his LinkedIn post Monday. Litko joined BlueHalo in November 2020 as director for SOF engagement and then transitioned to his most recent role, which he held for more than two […] More
Boeing has marked a milestone in its development of an experimental plane as part of NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. The company said Thursday the MD-90 airplane is now at a Boeing facility where it will undergo modifications to enable the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing configuration testing in support of the X-66A aircraft development. NASA envisions […] More
Curtiss-Wright’s defense solutions arm has modernized its suite of unified communications network management products to provide operators with more insight into network configuration and performance. The company said Tuesday IQ-Core Software v5.1.16 updates include installer enhancements for domain environments, a new custom URL monitor for service alerts, a configurable display for multiple interface viewing and […] More
The Defense Health Agency has awarded $82.5 million in contracts to procure financial and enterprise support services from Advancia‘s aeronautics and technologies businesses. Advancia Aeronautics will provide DHA’s Office of the Comptroller with accounting, budgeting, financial, property, system support, business process re-engineering and training support services under a $64 million firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of […] More
Bob Ritchie, chief technology officer at Science Applications International Corp., and other industry executives shared insights on how organizations could optimize cloud costs, InformationWeek reported Monday. Ritchie advised users to adopt transparency and automation via a software-defined infrastructure as it provides the measurements to align the elastic utilization of cloud. “Rather than a single up-front […] More
Boeing has secured the St. Louis Airport Commission’s approval to lease approximately 158 acres of land near Lambert International Airport for its planned $1.8 billion business expansion in the city, St. Louis Business Journal reported Wednesday. According to Boeing, the expansion project or “Operation Voyager” is aimed at enabling the aerospace company to further pursue […] More
Dedrone has named Sara Devitt, an executive with more than two decades of talent-focused experience, as chief people officer responsible for driving the smart airspace security company’s global people strategy. She will also lead Dedrone’s talent acquisition, development and retention efforts to ensure its workforce is equipped to support current hyper-growth phase, the Sterling, Virginia-based […] More
Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, received his 2023 Wash100 Award from Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the elite recognition, during the Potomac Officers Club’s Army Summit. Wash100 Award is an annual selection of the top 100 leaders in the government contracting industry for their […] More
Firefly Aerospace will collaborate with space technology developer Xtenti on a National Reconnaissance Office-led responsive space demonstration using the former’s Elytra orbital vehicle and the latter’s FANTM-RiDE small satellite dispenser. Xtenti is under a follow-on study contract with NRO to showcase the rapid payload reconfiguration capabilities of FANTM-RiDE or Flight Agnostic Non-interfering, Tunable Mass Rideshare […] More
Carlos Del Toro, secretary of the Navy, was honored with his first Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic. Wash100 Award is an annual recognition of the top 100 leaders in the government contracting industry for their demonstrated leadership, innovation, vision and potential to shape the GovCon landscape in […] More
