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The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking proposals for a research initiative focused on advanced high power electromagnetic sources to help the Department of Defense meet its requirements for HPEM technologies and components.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have conducted a test flight to demonstrate the capacity of drone swarms to support combat operations in urban settings.
Northrop Grumman is working on a new 20mm cannon, called the Sky Viper, for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, Military .com reported Thursday. Quinn Canole, director of the guns operating unit at Northrop, said the company is building the cannon, which completed the service’s initial design reviews, under a rapid prototyping agreement with the Army Development Command Armament Center.
Mindy McPheeters, interim general counsel of Spirit AeroSystems, has been promoted to the position on a full-time basis and she will concurrently serve as senior vice president and corporate secretary.
Jacobs has partnered with IronNet Cybersecurity to collaboratively design and develop a new offering meant to help commercial and government parties detect and address stealthy cyber threats. The joint cybersecurity offering will utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to gain awareness of both known and unknown cyber risks and bolster network security against attacks, Jacobs said Thursday.
A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary will develop approaches that could lessen interference between airborne radars and 5G networks in support of the National Spectrum Consortium’s Dynamic Spectrum Sharing program.
The Aerospace Industries Association, Commercial Spaceflight Federation and Satellite Industry Association have asked the Department of Commerce to continue to fund the Office of Space Commerce. “Retaining staff in the Office of Space Commerce to continue to carry out its work until a new Director is named is critical to the success of our industry on a variety of fronts,†the three industry groups wrote in a March 9 letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Jennifer Chronis, federal vice president of Verizon, has received her first Wash100 Award for driving technology offerings, expanding revenue and partnering with industry leaders to drive digital transformation across the government contracting (GovCon) sector. Executive Mosaic congratulates Verizon Federal and Jennifer Chronis on receiving her first Wash100 Award in 2021.Â
BAE Systems Inc. announced on Thursday that Shelly O’Neill Stoneman, the company’s current vice president for Executive Branch and International Government Relations, will become senior vice president for Government Relations, effective on April 17th, 2021. Stoneman will succeed Frank Ruggiero and will report directly to BAE Systems’ President and CEO Tom Arseneault.Â
Matthew Stern, vice president of Cybersecurity and a highly acclaimed CISO for Intelligent Waves, has written a thought leadership piece regarding the reasons and mistakes that lead to failures in cybersecurity practices by CISOs. Stern was recently named CISO of the Year by The Cyber Security Excellence Awards Competition for 2021.Â
Executive Mosaic presents Haywood “Woody†Talcove, CEO of Government for LexisNexis Risk Solutions and LexisNexis Special Services, as a recipient of the Wash100 Award for the second consecutive year. Executive Mosaic congratulates Haywood Talcove for his 2021 Wash100 Award. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for Woody Talcove as the most significant executive of consequence to the GovCon sector.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Serco Inc. a potential $600 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to support the Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) Ashore Sustainment Program by providing software, hardware and firmware maintenance services. Serco said Thursday the contract has an initial delivery order worth $153 million.
