ExecutiveBiz News on Video 3/4/2022

DeEtte Gray, president of the business and information technology solutions sector at CACI International, has been named a recipient of the 2022 Wash100 Award. She has been selected six times in the nine-year history of Executive Mosaic’s annual list of highly esteemed leaders in the government contracting arena. Gray assumed her current position in July […]

Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer for HP Federal and a key member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the challenges that U.S. government agencies are facing to implement latest trends in technology such as AI and machine learning as well as 5G, cloud and many others. In addition, GovCon Expert […]

Aeyon, a recently formed engineering and management services company, has added Tom Harker, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, and Forrest Faison, a retired Navy vice admiral, to its board of advisers. Harker will serve on the board as Department of Defense and civilian chair while Faison will assume the position of healthcare chair, the Vienna, […]

Executive Mosaic has named Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, as one of the recipients of the 2022 Wash100 Award for his leadership and efforts to achieve company growth in the mobile satellite service market. This marks the eighth consecutive year Desch was included in Executive Mosaic’s annual list of notable government contracting officials and […]

Susan Longley, formerly a Booz Allen Hamilton senior official, was appointed as vice president and account lead for health policy at consulting and research firm Abt Associates. In her new role, she will focus on engaging with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and will contribute expertise in policy implementation and change management, Abt […]

Microsoft, SpaceX and other Western companies are providing assistance to Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing invasion, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Microsoft is offering cybersecurity support to Ukraine by sharing information on cyberthreats. Tom Burt, vice president of customer security and trust at the company, said he reached out to defense and intelligence officials in […]

Raytheon Technologies‘ Pratt & Whitney business has secured a contract to demonstrate a rotating engine detonation concept for the Air Force Research Laboratory in an effort to create an engine capable of supporting higher-Mach flight speeds. Pratt & Whitney said Thursday it will work with Raytheon’s missiles and defense business and the Raytheon Technologies Research […]

Huntington Ingalls Industries prepared U.S. Air Force pilots in Europe for fights against enemy aircraft during the first-ever air combat training mission run by a contractor. HII said Wednesday the mission in December, which was part of a multi-role operations task order, provided data on the effectiveness, suitability and interoperability of contractor-owned, contractor-operated training for […]

Maxar Technologies and NASA have completed the critical design review phase of a mission intended to demonstrate robotic satellite refueling and in-space manufacturing and assembly. The space agency said Friday its On-orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing 1 or OSAM-1 achieved mission CDR completion in February, less than a year following the CDR milestone for the […]

A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary has received $30 million worth of contracts to modernize the open-architecture radar warning receivers on the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fighter fleet. The updates are aimed at enabling the AN/ALR-69A(V) all-digital radar warning receiver to detect new and advanced threat signals emitted by enemy systems, Raytheon Intelligence and Space said Thursday. […]