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News of the Week: Lockheed Announces Three Leaders in the Missiles and Fire Control Business

Lockheed Martin has announced the appointments of three new executives in the Missiles and Fire Control business. Rita Flaherty, a 17 year company veteran, will be the vice president of strategy and business development for the fire control/special operations forces contractor logistics support services business. She graduated from West Point Military Academy and is a U.S. Army veteran. _ _...

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James Clapper Wants More Space Launch Services Competition, DoD to Increase Pay for Cyber Workers

The Defense Department is attempting to keep up with the private sector in cybersecurity hires by passing new legislation to increase incentive pay and bonuses. The bill asks the service branches to figure out “whether recruiting, retention, and assignment of service members with cyber skills requires bonuses or special and incentive pays.” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has indicated that DoD’s...

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Business News: Executive Moves at JHUAPL, Neustar and the Professional Services Council

Executive Mosaic’s weekly round-up of news is a can’t-miss, digestible snapshot of the GovCon industry covering the biggest executive moves, mergers & acquisitions and contracts straight from the pen of one of GovCon’s most respected facilitators and sources of breaking news, Jim Garrettson. This week, the newsletter contained major executive moves at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics...

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Christine Fox Named Policy, Analysis Asst Director at Johns Hopkins APL

Christine Fox has been named assistant director for policy and analysis at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, GovConWire said Tuesday. Fox most recently served as acting U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary to replace the retired Ash Carter. The appointment to the number two position at the Pentagon occurred in December 2013 when Fox was serving as senior adviser at JHUAPL. “She...

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News of the Day: David Wennergren Named Professional Services Council SVP

David Wennergren has been named senior vice president of technology policy at the Professional Services Council. He most recently served as enterprise services group VP at CACI after serving as assistant deputy chief management officer for the DoD. The council is led by Anne Altman, IBM's U.S. federal lead, and also includes Teresa Carlson, Amazon Web Services' public sector chief, and AT&T...

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Major Leadership Appointments at the Air Force and FBI

The Air Force has named Sarah Zabel the new chief information officer for the Office of the Air Force Secretary and director of cyberspace operations for the branch's information dominance office. The 17-year veteran has also served as director of C4 systems at Transportation Command and also served as CIO of the same command. _ _ At the FBI, Christopher Todd Doss has been named assistant...

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Business News: Executive Moves at Rigil, SAP and NuScale

Executive Mosaic’s weekly round-up of news is a can’t-miss, digestible snapshot of the GovCon industry covering the biggest executive moves, mergers & acquisitions and contracts straight from the pen of one of GovCon’s most respected facilitators and sources of breaking news, Jim Garrettson. This week, the newsletter contained major executive moves at Rigil, SAP and NuScale as well as news...

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News of the Day: Terry Halvorsen Appointed Acting CIO at DoD

Terry Halvorsen has been named Acting CIO of the Defense Department just days after David Devries was named Acting CIO. Devries will continue his role as DoD Deputy CIO for information enterprise as Halvorsen starts his new role on May 21. Halvorsen steps into the role after serving as Navy CIO since November 2010. Teri Takai left the DoD CIO role two weeks ago. Halvorsen, an almost 30-year...

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News of the Week: Keith Alexander Opens Cybersecurity Consultancy

Keith Alexander has formed a new consultancy group focused on the cybersecurity of financial institutions. The former director of the National Security Agency's company will be located in Washington D.C., in the offices of Proontory Financial Group. “After a 40-year career in the military and the government, I am beginning an effort to see what I could do to help address the cybersecurity...

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Int'l News: Japan Changes Stance on National Defense, Israel Wants Greater U.S. Support

Japan is set to propose conditions where the military would be allowed to defend other nations, an action Japan's constitution prohibits. Many see Japan's interest in helping its allies as a result of a more bold China in the Asia Pacific region. “If we have the option to exercise this right, we'll be able to make Japan a better partner in a region-wide security community,” said Narushige...

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Gov't News: Federal Gov't Partners with Universities on Energy, Cyber Projects

The federal government continues to partner with Universities to improve energy usage and protect networks from cyberattacks. The National Security Agency is investing $8 million in cybersecurity research initiatives to create test labratories of four universities. The University of Maryland, North Carolina State University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois will each...

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Business News: Executive Moves at Northrop, Raytheon, Cubic and ManTech

Executive Mosaic’s weekly round-up of news is a can’t-miss, digestible snapshot of the GovCon industry covering the biggest executive moves, mergers & acquisitions and contracts straight from the pen of one of GovCon’s most respected facilitators and sources of breaking news, Jim Garrettson. This week, the newsletter contained major executive moves at Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Cubic Corp....

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