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Christine Thropp

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.

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  • Stratolaunch Appoints Jackson Kemper as CRO, Mary Normand as CFO; Zachary Krevor Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stratolaunch Appoints Jackson Kemper as CRO, Mary Normand as CFO; Zachary Krevor Quoted

    Stratolaunch has named two new C-level executives with decades-long industry experience to join its leadership team and support its hypersonic testing development efforts in line with the national defense strategy. Jackson Kemper, formerly of Mynaric, was appointed as chief revenue officer of Stratolaunch while Mary Normand, who was with Vantage Associates, was tapped to serve […] More

  • Former Charon Technologies President Scott Aken Named Axellio CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Charon Technologies President Scott Aken Named Axellio CEO

    Scott Aken, formerly president of CACI International subsidiary Charon Technologies, was named CEO of Axellio, taking over Bill Miller, who will keep his chairmanship of the cybersecurity company’s board. Axellio said Monday Aken has decades-long experience in cybersecurity including a nine-year stint at Charon Technologies, where he drove its portfolio expansion with the addition of […] More

  • SES Government Arm to Continue Providing Army With Satcom Services Under TROJAN Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Government Arm to Continue Providing Army With Satcom Services Under TROJAN Contract

    SES‘ government-focused subsidiary has secured a recompete contract that provides for the continued delivery of satellite communication services to the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Security Command over a potential five-year period. Under the TROJAN follow-on contract, SES Government Solutions will provide advanced and secure satcom services in support of INSCOM’s mission of ensuring that warfighters […] More

  • USAF Seeks Info on Domestic Production Capability of Avionics PNT Tech for Hypersonic Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Seeks Info on Domestic Production Capability of Avionics PNT Tech for Hypersonic Systems

    The U.S. Air Force is seeking input about the U.S. capability and capacity to produce advanced avionics position, navigation and guidance technologies that could be used on hypersonic systems. According to the Defense Production Act Title III Program request for information posted on SAM.gov, the Air Force Research Laboratory looks to determine the domestic availability […] More

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    Former ICF SVP Jake Buikema Named Chief Growth Officer at Raft

    Jake Buikema, formerly senior vice president of strategic growth at ICF, has joined Raft to serve as the new chief growth officer of the Reston, Virginia-based digital consulting firm, FedHealthIT reported Thursday. He brings to his Raft post almost two decades of experience in working at several government contracting companies, including as senior capture executive […] More

  • Timothy Jenkins to Assume President Post at Comtech's Safety & Security Technologies Product Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Timothy Jenkins to Assume President Post at Comtech’s Safety & Security Technologies Product Group

    Timothy Jenkins, vice president at Comtech Telecommunications, will take over Kent Hellebust as president of the safety and security technologies product group following the latter’s retirement from the company by the end of May. Comtech said Thursday Jenkins, in his current role, is responsible for driving the use of next generation 911 capabilities in support […] More

  • Cubic Books $91M Air Force Contract for Training System Security Update - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Books $91M Air Force Contract for Training System Security Update

    A Cubic business has received a potential $90.6 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force to conduct security update efforts in support of the P5 Combat Training System used by the service branch and U.S. allies. Cubic Defense Applications will work to enable Type 1 encryption and equip the P5CTS with a National Security […] More

  • Acquia Awarded Additional Fedramp Authorization for Cloud Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Acquia Awarded Additional Fedramp Authorization for Cloud Services

    More Acquia cloud services have received an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, expanding the range of company offerings that meet government security requirements. Aside from Acquia Cloud Platform and Site Factory, the company said Tuesday Acquia Site Studio, the latest Acquia Search versions and Acquia Platform Email capabilities now […] More

  • L3Harris Instrument Onboard NOAA's GOES-18 Spacecraft Marks 1st Image Capture Milestone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3Harris Instrument Onboard NOAA’s GOES-18 Spacecraft Marks 1st Image Capture Milestone

    L3Harris Technologies has announced that its high-resolution imaging technology made its first image capture two months after it launched onboard the newest weather satellite of NOAA, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-18. The Advanced Baseline Imager produced the GOES-18 full disk GeoColor image from space using data from the instrument’s multiple channels, the company said Wednesday. GOES-18 […] More

  • Teledyne FLIR Defense Launches Small UAS Payload for Laser Target Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teledyne FLIR Defense Launches Small UAS Payload for Laser Target Designation

    A Teledyne Technologies business has introduced a payload designed to provide small unmanned aerial systems with laser-based target management capability. The StormCaster-DX laser target designator payload is built for the FLIR R80D SkyRaider UAS platform and uses a Laser Spot Tracker for target area management, enabling a capability previously available only on larger drones or […] More