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Executive Mosaic Celebrates SAIC’s Nazzic Keene and CIA’s Nand Mulchandani For 2023 Wash100 Award Wins
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Executive Mosaic Celebrates SAIC’s Nazzic Keene and CIA’s Nand Mulchandani For 2023 Wash100 Award Wins

In honor of their induction into the 2023 Wash100 class, Executive Mosaic has commemorated the accomplishments of Science Applications International Corp. CEO Nazzic Keene and Central Intelligence Agency Chief Technology Officer Nand Mulchandani with celebratory profiles.

The annual Wash100 Award, which has endured as the most sought after recognition in the government contracting industry for the last 10 years, once again continued the tradition of highlighting the most distinguished GovCon executives. Keene and Mulchandani both proved their strength as leaders in this iteration of the award’s rigorous selection process.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to choose Nazzic Keene and Nand Mulchandani as your favorite 2023 Wash100 winners in this year’s popular vote contest! To cast two of your ten votes for these distinguished leaders, please visit Wash100.com.

A six-time Wash100 awardee, Keene earned her spot for her dedication to expanding SAIC by prioritizing its growth and technology accelerants area and “aligning capital allocation with long-term shareholder value creation.”

Keene has also progressed the company’s plans to build a more diverse workforce, enhance employee benefits, reduce environmental impacts, grow community engagement and provide job opportunities for veterans. To read her full profile, click here.

Mulchandani, the CIA’s first-ever CTO, secured his 2023 Wash100 win through efforts to build a more comprehensive technology strategy to boost the agency’s array of capabilities. 

As a co-author of the Software-Defined Warfare: Architecting the DOD’s Transition to the Digital Age report, which was published in September, Mulchandani additionally advocated for the use of software by U.S. warfighters to maintain a competitive advantage as warfare moves further into the digital age. Click here to read his full profile.

Executive Mosaic Celebrates SAIC’s Nazzic Keene and CIA’s Nand Mulchandani For 2023 Wash100 Award Wins

SAIC is sponsoring the Potomac Officers Club’s 9th Annual Defense R&D Summit, which will connect expert GovCon leaders to discuss defense R&D priorities and challenges on March 23. To learn more and register to attend, please visit the Potomac Officers Club events page.

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Executive Mosaic CEO Presents Jacobs’ Steve Arnette With 2023 Wash100 Award
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Executive Mosaic CEO Presents Jacobs’ Steve Arnette With 2023 Wash100 Award

Steve Arnette, executive vice president and president of the critical missions solutions business at Jacobs, was presented with his 2023 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson.

Executive Mosaic CEO Presents Jacobs’ Steve Arnette With 2023 Wash100 Award

Arnette earned his first Wash100 Award this year for leading his business unit’s growth efforts through notable contract awards, and specifically for the company’s work supporting critical NASA missions.

As a future-focused award, the Wash100 not only recognizes key figures in the GovCon landscape for their past accomplishments but for their anticipated future impact on government missions as well.

Since Arnette’s selection to the 2023 Wash100 list, his business unit at Jacobs secured a potential 10-year $3.2 billion contract to manage launch infrastructure and ground systems at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Under the contract, Jacobs will support NASA programs such as the Exploration Ground Systems, the Orion and Space Launch System rockets and the International Space Station.

You can vote for Steve Arnette as your favorite 2023 Wash100 winner at Wash100.com. To learn more about Arnette and his win, read his full Wash100 profile here.

Executive Mosaic congratulates Arnette and the Jacobs team for their selection to the 2023 Wash100 roster.

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NTIA Requests Comments on National Spectrum Strategy; Gina Raimondo Quoted
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NTIA Requests Comments on National Spectrum Strategy; Gina Raimondo Quoted

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration is soliciting comments on the development and implementation of a long-term planning strategy to support current and future spectrum requirements of the public and private sectors.

NTIA said Wednesday the National Spectrum Strategy would address the needs of spectrum-dependent services and technologies, including broadband services, satellite communications, medical devices, small cities and manufacturing applications.

“Starting today, we are seeking input on how we can make the most efficient use of this critical resource, with the goal of identifying new spectrum bands for potential repurposing that will spur competition and innovation for years to come,” announced Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

The framework would focus on three goals: developing a spectrum pipeline to ensure U.S. leadership in spectrum-driven technologies, implementing a long-term strategic spectrum planning process and expanding the overall spectrum capacity or usability through technology.

Responses are due April 17.

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SEC Proposes Cybersecurity Requirements for Securities Markets; Gary Gensler Quoted
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SEC Proposes Cybersecurity Requirements for Securities Markets; Gary Gensler Quoted

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed new requirements to address cybersecurity risks to the U.S. securities markets, including enforcing written policies and procedures to counter digital threats.

Market entities must also conduct annual reviews and assessments to ensure the effectiveness of their policies and determine whether they reflect changes in the cybersecurity threat landscape during the time of the review, SEC said Wednesday.

The commission aims to use information from the reports to boost its ability to obtain information about significant cybersecurity incidents in the sector and to address their severe impacts on investors.

“The nature, scale, and impact of cybersecurity risks have grown significantly in recent decades. Investors, issuers, and market participants alike would benefit from knowing that these entities have in place protections fit for a digital age,” said Gary Gensler, chairman of the SEC.

The proposed rules will affect the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and other market entities, including clearing agencies, broker-dealers, national securities associations and exchanges.

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SSC, NASA Send Space Test Program-Houston 9 Mission to International Space Station
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SSC, NASA Send Space Test Program-Houston 9 Mission to International Space Station

Space Systems Command and NASA launched eight experimental payloads to the International Space Station on Tuesday as part of a mission meant to support the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program.

The STP-Houston 9 mission carrying the payloads lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft on behalf of the company’s 27th commercial resupply mission to ISS.

Dragon is expected to dock to the orbiting laboratory on Thursday, March 16, to enable robotic operators from NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Japan Exploration Aerospace Agency to extract the STP-H9 payload from the spacecraft’s trunk and attach it to the Japanese Experiment Module on the space station, SSC said Wednesday.

“This mission will test a wide range of technologies from artificial intelligence and machine learning, new space radiation and gammaray detectors, wireless power beaming, variable voltage power supplies, and observations of the ionosphere and the effects of gravity waves in the stratosphere,” said Rick Caldwell, SSC mission manager for the STP-H9 payload.

The Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, the U.S. Air Force Academy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory participated in the development of the STP-H9 mission.

US Marine Corps Seeks Industry Input on Live, Virtual & Constructive Training Program
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US Marine Corps Seeks Industry Input on Live, Virtual & Constructive Training Program

The U.S. Marine Corps is requesting information from vendors that can provide technologies to improve its Live, Virtual and Constructive training continuum.

In a notice posted on SAM.gov, the service branch said the request for information is part of Project Tripoli, which aims to transform Marine Corps training in various domains and locations within and outside the continental United States.

Project Tripoli’s LVC-Training Environment was created to instill military preparedness, from individuals to Marine expeditionary forces. The program will also facilitate skills development in land, maritime, air, space and cyberspace domains, across all warfighting functions.

To advance the project, the service intends to procure virtual, augmented or mixed reality systems for combat vehicle simulation. It is also looking into 5G wireless connectivity, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning-assisted training platforms.

The branch will wait for RFI responses until April 11. The Marine Corps Systems Command Program Manager for Training Systems is managing the RFI.

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DOD Industrial Base Senior Advisor Erin Simpson to Lead Joint Production Accelerator Cell
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DOD Industrial Base Senior Advisor Erin Simpson to Lead Joint Production Accelerator Cell

The Department of Defense has promoted Erin Simpson, senior advisor of industrial base policy, to executive director of the agency’s Joint Production Accelerator Cell, Simpson announced in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday.

She will lead the DOD team that explores innovative technologies to improve weapons manufacturing capacity and flexibility.

The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment established JPAC earlier this month to manage the expansion of munition production lines. Simpson was chosen one year after she assumed the role of senior advisor.

Prior to joining the agency, Simpson founded a business services firm called Archer Avenue Consulting. She also worked for more than four years at Northrop Grumman, where she served as director of a variety of programs, including space systems strategy development and deployment.

DOE to Award $750M in Grants to Clean Hydrogen R&D Projects; Jennifer Granholm Quoted
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DOE to Award $750M in Grants to Clean Hydrogen R&D Projects; Jennifer Granholm Quoted

The Department of Energy has been authorized to release $750 million in funding for research, development and demonstration of cost-effective clean hydrogen technologies.

The funding is the first of two provisions to be implemented under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which dedicates $1.5 billion to the advancement and cost reduction of clean hydrogen systems, the agency said Wednesday.

“Making clean hydrogen from abundant renewable energy provides America with yet another incredibly powerful fuel for many different applications, from low-emissions use in the construction and manufacturing industries to energy storage to powering our cars and trucks,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm commented.

The Biden administration committed to supporting initiatives to enhance clean hydrogen recycling capabilities. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the administration also pledged to finance projects that aim to lower the cost of electrolysis-based manufacturing of clean hydrogen..

DOE intends to award cooperative agreements with performance periods between two and five years. The grants are open to companies, academic institutions, national laboratories, and diverse or underrepresented entities. The agency will accept concept papers until April 19, and full applications until July 19.

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Lt. Gen. Ross Coffman on Industry Partnerships’ Role in Army Readiness
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Lt. Gen. Ross Coffman on Industry Partnerships’ Role in Army Readiness

Lt. Gen. Ross Coffman, deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Futures Command, said the service branch is using other transaction agreements and other nontraditional approaches to strengthen industry partnerships and accelerate the acquisition of new technologies.

During a panel discussion at Optiv Cyber House in Austin, Coffman explained that the Army supports business arrangements with the private industry to gain access to capabilities designed to boost soldier readiness. The Army reported Coffman’s remarks on Wednesday.

“Everything that we do is focused on making our women and men in uniform successful on the future battlefield,” Coffman said.

He noted that the service branch provides broad opportunities beyond technology research and development programs to build a diverse industry base.

Coffman also acknowledged the importance of timely communications with partners to ensure a clear understanding.

“Like any relationship, communication is probably the most important thing,” he said.

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DISA’s Sharon Woods: DOD Eyes Release of Secret-Level Bid Offerings to JWCC Cloud Contract Awardees
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DISA’s Sharon Woods: DOD Eyes Release of Secret-Level Bid Offerings to JWCC Cloud Contract Awardees

Sharon Woods, director of the hosting and compute center at the Defense Information Systems Agency, said the Department of Defense intends to release in the coming weeks secret-level bid offerings to four companies that secured spots on the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday.

In December, DOD awarded Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle positions on the potential $9 billion JWCC contract. 

The extension of these offerings will ostensibly enable each of the four vendors to know more about the Pentagon’s requirements and make a proposal.

“That’s a capability we really don’t have in the department – an enterprise top secret cloud environment,” Woods said at an event Tuesday. 

“You know, the intelligence community does, but the department…is not able to leverage that contract and so that is one of those capability gaps that JWCC is meeting,” she added.

Woods noted that the department expects to issue top secret-level offerings in the summer and that the first task orders under the cloud contract are also “in the pipeline.”

She stated that DOD is looking at whether offerings under JWCC could help drive cloud initiatives of individual service branches.

“But separate from that…they’re creating their own environments, their own production environments, they’re layering on DevSecOps and tactical edge capabilities in a number of things,” Woods said. “There’s nothing about JWCC that stops them from doing that.”

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