Lockheed Martin’s space business has won a $62.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract from the U.S. Air Force for flight-qualified vector research and development activities. The Department of Defense said Thursday Lockheed Martin Space will perform R&D, design, demonstration, testing, integration and delivery of software and payload hardware over a three-year period. The company will perform work in […] More

Five companies have won spots on a five-year, $90 million enterprise sourcing contract with the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. The multiple-award contract will include professional advisory and assistance services for AFSOC installations, including geographically separated units and tenants on those bases, the Defense Department said Monday. AFSOC expects contract work to conclude by […] More

Aidis Zunde, chief operating officer of Yorktown Systems Group, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the transition he made from the U.S. military to the public sector as well as the core values of the company’s culture that drive the long term success of its workforce and growth initiatives in the federal landscape during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You […] More

A $280 billion funding bill that seeks to strengthen the U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing capability is now awaiting approval from the House of Representatives following the Senate’s 64-33 vote on Wednesday to pass the bipartisan legislation. The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 calls for over $52 billion in funding to support the domestic production […] More

Clay Goldwein, senior vice president of national security and justice at CGI Federal, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the difficulties of implementing zero-trust architectures as well as the challenges of data security and cyber hygiene as artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies continue to impact the federal sector during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read the full Executive […] More

James Yeager, vice president of public sector and healthcare at CrowdStrike, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about how the company ensures the long term success for its workforce as well as the implementation of recent acquisitions like Preempt Security and Humio during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. “At CrowdStrike, we focus on our customers first. We invest our time and […] More

Contribution by Steve Wilson Today, nearly half (49%) of organizations are running applications on serverless technology. Modern application developers rely more and more on serverless platforms from large cloud providers, and the federal government is no different. Further, according to a 2019 Deloitte report, CIOs say that 80% of developers’ time is spent on applications, […] More

Mike Loomis, general manager of Federal business with Nokia, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding his history with the company over the last decade as well as his military background and how that experience has prepared him to lead Nokia’s federal business into the future. In addition, Mike Loomis also discussed his recent growth initiatives as general manager as […] More

Phil Fuster, vice president of federal sales at Proofpoint, recently participated in an Executive Spotlight interview to discuss the company’s growth initiatives in the government space, as well as its people-centric security risk management approach from a federal perspective. “Proofpoint has doubled the size of our federal team to expand our federal footprint into new […] More

BAE Systems’ Australian subsidiary will supply critical software and hardware sub-assemblies in support of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile Block 2 program under a three-year, $50 million full-rate production contract with Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business. ESSM is a surface-to-air missile designed to protect combat ships from anti-ship cruise missiles, BAE said Wednesday. BAE Systems […] More

Executive Mosaic is glad to introduce Rob Joyce, the National Security Agency’s cybersecurity director and deputy national manager for national security systems, as a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award for leading efforts to secure critical infrastructure and address increasing cases of cyber crimes and ransomware incidents. This marks the second time Joyce has been […] More

Theodore Gates, formerly a senior security engineer for Cisco Systems‘ U.S. public sector segment, has been tapped by NewWave Telecom and Technologies to serve as director of cybersecurity business development. He joins NewWave as the company establishes an architectural practice and consultancy dedicated to zero trust security, the information technology consulting provider said Tuesday. The […] More