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Executive Mosaic has announced that David King, group president for Dynetics at Leidos, has received the first Wash100 Award, the most respected and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), of his long career in the federal sector for his leadership and innovation as Dynetics works to expand the Leidos Innovations Center’s technical capabilities. 

Palantir has launched an enterprise resource planning software product designed to operate with Amazon Web Services' cloud platform and help customers manage disparate business data. "Using AWS, Palantir’s ERP Suite can help customers offload the complexity, gain faster intelligence from their data, and make critical decisions," said Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector and industries business at AWS and six-time Wash100 Award recipient.

The Department of Homeland Security has released a draft request for proposals for an upcoming contract to develop an enterprise process for managing federal cybersecurity professionals' compensation.

The U.S. Air Force is working with Boeing, Raytheon Technologies and the latter company's Collins Aerospace business in efforts to modernize communication systems of the E-4B strategic command and control aircraft platform.

George Franz and Ian Fogarty of Accenture Federal Services wrote in a guest piece published Friday on Breaking Defense that the Department of Defense should combine Agile software development with product management to speed up the development of weapons systems and help maintain U.S. edge in innovation and the country’s global preeminence. “Done correctly, Agile Product Management achieves the speed and responsiveness to evolving needs provided by agile software development, while also helping to handle the complexities associated with suppliers/providers, large and complex integrations, and a wide ecosystem of stakeholders typically seen in mission critical defense and intelligence systems,” Franz, a retired U.S. Army major general, and Fogarty wrote.

Lockheed Martin has commenced preparations to launch a midsize demonstration satellite platform designed for communications, weather research and Earth observation missions, Via Satellite reported Friday. Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed's space business and a 2021 Wash100 awardee, said the company developed its LM 400 satellite bus hybrid in a push to help customers address evolving mission environments.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured an $8.9 million subcontract from USfalcon to modernize four avionics training systems and two maintenance-blended reconfigurable aviation trainers for the U.S. Army's CH-47F Chinook helicopter program.

The White House announced on Saturday nominations for three U.S. combatant commands. Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson was nominated to lead the U.S. Southern Command and a fourth star. Navy Adm. John Aquilino has been nominated to lead the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost was nominated to take over the U.S. Transportation Command. 

Bitglass has used a security stack from stackArmor, an Amazon Web Services advanced consulting partner, to address compliance objectives in pursuit of Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification. Bitglass secured FedRAMP authority to operate at the moderate level for its Total Cloud Security Platform.

Sumeet Shrivastava, president and CEO of Array Information Technology, has been named a founding member of a George Mason University council tasked with guiding and promoting the school's innovation initiative.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center's Dahlgren Division is looking to partner with companies to conduct a bibliometric analysis of intellectual properties in the technology watch and horizon scanning areas.

Verizon has made a millimeter-wave 5G network service available to three U.S. cities and started the deployment of the new cellular technology at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, Fierce Wireless reported Thursday.

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector group at Dell Technologies, has received a 2021 Wash100 Award, the richest prize in all of government contracting (GovCon) for the sixth consecutive year. Executive Mosaic offers its congratulations to Steve Harris and the Dell Technologies team for their selection to receive the 2021 Wash100 Award.

The Missile Defense Agency is looking for potential sources of concepts to support the planned command and control, battle management and communications platform for enterprise-wide defense network communications.

Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, is thrilled to announce Dave Dacquino, chairman and CEO of Serco, Inc, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most significant award in all of GovCon. This marks the second Wash100 win for Dacquino.