With Jo Ann Bjornson on board as V2X's chief human resources officer and senior vice president, the company is focusing on reinvigorating its brand, scaling its capabilities and bolstering its workforce. Executive Mosaic spoke with Bjornson, a former Leidos executive, about her vision for the future of the company’s workforce, how V2X is approaching its talent acquisition and why mission matters in a competitive market. 

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Executive Mosaic, the premier media and events organization in the government contracting sector, is honored to announce the 2024 edition of the highly anticipated Wash100 Award. Now in its historic 11th year, the Wash100 Award recognizes the top 100 industry executives and government leaders in the GovCon community for their outstanding leadership, positive impact and […] More

Kiran Rathod, an experienced business and technology executive, has joined Connected Logistics and its joint venture, Canopy Health, to serve as chief technology officer, according to the business management consultant's LinkedIn post. As a member of the senior management team, Rathod will be responsible for providing both organizations with technical expertise to help ensure that tech offerings meet customer requirements.

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Seven GovCon industry leaders have joined the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s board of directors to provide direction, strategic guidance and business oversight as INSA works to drive collaboration to advance national security priorities. INSA said Wednesday six of the newly elected board members will serve three-year terms while one will serve a two-year term.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun seeking solicitations for a potential $499 million follow-on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to research, integrate, develop and support the service branch's geospatial systems and services. A notice posted Friday on SAM.gov states that the GRIDS IV contract will have an ordering period of five years and covers the provision of technical expertise to help the Army Geospatial Center coordinate, integrate and synchronize geospatial data standards and requirements.

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Timothy Barton, former chief technology officer of Leidos company Dynetics, has joined DESE Research as CTO. The company announced Thursday that it hired Barton to oversee all growth, strategy, change management, planning, execution, technical differentiation and investments.

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Bombardier Defense secured a U.S. Army contract in December to provide a Global 6500 aircraft in support of prototyping efforts under the service branch's High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System program. The firm-fixed-price contract awarded by Army Contracting Command includes options for two additional aircraft over a period of three years, the service said Wednesday.

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Phillip Pickens has been named vice president of quality and mission assurance at BlueHalo, an Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company, he announced on LinkedIn Wednesday. He joined the Arlington, Virginia company from Leidos subsidiary Dynetics, where he worked as quality manager.

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Joe Boeckx has been named chief growth officer of QinetiQ US, where he will lead business development efforts. In his new role, Boeckx will oversee QinetiQ US' growth strategy, which encompasses customer engagement, business development, proposal operations, strategic pricing and mergers and acquisitions, according to the McLean, Virginia-based organization.

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Executive Mosaic has announced its entrance into stock market reporting with a brand new venture: GovCon Index. This state-of-the-art tracker is the flagship compiler of GovCon stock market information.

Carefully sourced and monitored in real time, GovCon Index is an aggregate index concentrating on 30 high-performing publicly traded companies in the GovCon sector.

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Darena Solutions is partnering with Leidos and SLI Compliance on an initiative that would establish a standardized procedure to vet artificial intelligence-powered healthcare applications and integrate them into electronic health record systems. Darena said Tuesday that the verification process would be tailored to AI apps developed using the Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources application programming interface.

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Ken Sharp has been appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer at Peraton, a role in which he will oversee the company’s financial activities. He will succeed John Kavanaugh and report to Chairman, President and CEO Stu Shea, the Reston, Virginia-based enterprise announced on Monday.

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