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Navy’s Underwater Training Range Reaches Full Operational Capability Status
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Navy’s Underwater Training Range Reaches Full Operational Capability Status

The U.S. Navy’s Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges program office has declared full operational capability for the first increment of its underwater training infrastructure for submarines and surface vessels.

The Undersea Warfare Training Ranges Increment I achieved the status after it demonstrated its capacity to support multiple maritime exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, Naval Air Systems Command said Tuesday.

L3Harris Technologies helped the Navy install an ocean sensor and shore electronics subsystems near Jacksonville, Florida, as part of the USWTR INC I effort.

The company secured a $393 million follow-on contract in 2021 to modernize and replace systems at other training ranges near Southern California, the Bahamas and Hawaii.

“These ranges are essential to our national security, and provide critical support to the helicopter maritime strike, maritime patrol and reconnaissance, and Navy ship communities,” said Capt. Kevin McGee, program manager of PMA-205.

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Deanne Criswell Names New Members of FEMA National Advisory Council
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Deanne Criswell Names New Members of FEMA National Advisory Council

Deanne Criswell, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has unveiled the appointment of 19 members to an advisory council that provides recommendations to the agency on disaster preparedness and response efforts.

Jeff Hansen, director of community safety for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, has been named chair of the National Advisory Council replacing outgoing chair W. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, FEMA said Tuesday.

Hansen, who previously served as vice chair of the council for four years, is the first tribal representative to hold the position of council chair.

He said the council will grow its members from 35 to 40 beginning in 2023 to include positions focused on climate change. The 16 new appointees and three returning members will begin their terms on Dec. 1.

The council has created approximately 400 recommendations to FEMA on a range of emergency management matters since its inception in 2006.

The full list and additional information on the council’s current members are available here.

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Report: Navy Plans to Block Buy Five Columbia-Class Ballistic Missile Submarines
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Report: Navy Plans to Block Buy Five Columbia-Class Ballistic Missile Submarines

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Scott Pappano, program executive officer for strategic submarines, said the service branch aims to purchase five Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines through a potential block-buy deal, Defense Daily reported Tuesday.

Speaking at the annual Naval Submarine League symposium, Pappano said the plan would enable the Navy to stick to the program’s schedule and send a “positive demand signal” to the defense industrial base.

The official said that the Columbia-class program has an internal six-month schedule margin to reduce potential gaps in the transition from the legacy Ohio-class SSBNs in fiscal year 2030.

According to Pappano, the future USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826), the first submarine of the class, is down to only about one month of the planned margin.

General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, commenced the full-rate production of SSBN-826 during a keel laying ceremony in June.

The Columbia-class program will include 12 new SSBNs that will replace the 14 aging Ohio-class submarines that the Navy expects to retire beginning in 2027.

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Empower AI Secures IT Services, Cybersecurity Contract to Support U.S. Army 7th Signal Command; CEO Paul Dillahay Quoted
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Empower AI Secures IT Services, Cybersecurity Contract to Support U.S. Army 7th Signal Command; CEO Paul Dillahay Quoted

Empower AI announced on Wednesday that the company has secured a potential three-year, $11 million recompete contract to support the 7th Signal Command (Theater) under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 3 Services contract for the U.S. Army.

“Ensuring and validating the strongest cybersecurity posture for the Army and Joint Force is a critical mission initiative, and we are pleased to continue our long-term support for the Army and the 7th Signal Command in this effort,” said Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of Empower AI, who is a four-time Wash100 Award.

Under the contract, Empower AI will provide IT services and support to the Security Control Assessor to the 7th Signal Command (Theater) at Army Network Enterprise Centers across the globe, including Risk Management Framework validation testing to ensure the highest-level security posture for all systems and networks.

The Army’s premier communications provider with global reach, the 7th Signal Command enables the Army’s ability to build, train, compete, fight, and win across complex Joint & Coalition Multi- and All-Domain environments.

The latest contract award for Empower AI comes a week after the company won a new contract from the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command (ISEC) to support its efforts to modernize the National Defense University’s systems infrastructure.

After announcing the previous contract award win, Paul Dillahay also explained how Empower AI is looking forward to providing the Joint Staff and NDU with the technology and services they need to educate and inform our warfighters of national military strategy.

About Empower AI

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va. Empower AI leverages three decades of mission experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions.

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Christopher Lowman: DoD Eyes New Strategies to Help Address Long-Term Sustainment Costs
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Christopher Lowman: DoD Eyes New Strategies to Help Address Long-Term Sustainment Costs

The Department of Defense is working on a new project that seeks to tackle long-term sustainment costs upfront in weapons systems development, Federal News Network reported Tuesday.

Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of DOD and a two-time Wash100 AWard winner, approved the initiative called “rapid sustainment execution reserve” meant to help address the problem with long-term costs.

“We want to provide the upfront investment to procure a commercially-available solution, something that can be executed in a single fiscal year, get the military services past that initial investment, and then scale it within the services,” Christopher Lowman, assistant secretary for sustainment at DOD, said at a conference.

“We’ve developed some vignettes we’ll release on SAM.gov, and we’re looking for feedback from industry on what the solutions are. What are the available products? I’m not interested in developing anything. What I want are options and ideas on how to address the sustainment challenges with existing technology, and then we’ll allow them to compete,” he added.

The Pentagon also aims to leverage data to enhance its sustainment plans and Lowman noted that Hicks cleared new approaches to measure long-term performance of weapons systems.

With the initiative called “sustainment health strategies,” Lowman said the department will use information in authoritative databases of service branches to gain measurements of those weapons platforms’ availability.

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International Counter Ransomware Initiative Lays Out Plans to Fight Ransomware
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International Counter Ransomware Initiative Lays Out Plans to Fight Ransomware

Member countries of the International Counter Ransomware Initiative assembled for a two-day summit that kicked off Monday in Washington, D.C., and worked with partners in the private sector to come up with measures to fight ransomware worldwide.

CRI members will carry out several actions in 2023 to counter ransomware such as establishing an international counter ransomware task force to coordinate efforts to fight illicit finance activities; creating a fusion cell at the Regional Cyber Defense Centre; and instituting active and enduring private-sector engagement.

They will also publish joint advisories outlining tactics, techniques and procedures for key identified actors and create a capacity-building tool to help countries combat ransomware through public-private partnerships.

The members also committed to hosting a second counter-illicit finance ransomware workshop, initiating joint actions to prevent ransomware actors from using the cryptocurrency ecosystem to secure payment, sharing information between public and private sectors, advancing the development of aligned frameworks and guidelines and coordinating cyber capacity building initiatives to build up resilience against ransomware.

Northrop Grumman Leaders and Executives
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Northrop Grumman Leaders and Executives

Northrop Grumman is one of the most reliable service providers for the US government and international clients. Read here how the Northrop Grumman Leaders and Executives push boundaries in the aerospace, military, and cybersecurity sphere.

About Northrop Grumman Corporation

Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational technology company and one of the biggest in the world servicing weapons for the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community.

Northrop Grumman has more than 90,000 employees working together to build the world’s most advanced aircraft and weapons, provide full-spectrum cyber protection, manufacture low-cost, highly-reliable weapons and ammunitions, and so much more

History of Northrop Grumman Corporation

Northrop Grumman Corporation was established by founders Jack Northrop and Leroy Grumman in 1939 as Northrop Aircraft Inc, a designer and manufacturer of original aircraft.  Since then, it acquired and merged with other legacy companies in the aerospace, technology, and defense industries, such as Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Logicon Corporation, Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical, Litton Industries, and others. Around 2000, the company sold its commercial aerostructures business to focus on defense electronics and IT.

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s headquarters are in West Falls Church, Virginia, with more than 550 offices and operations worldwide.

Northrop Grumman Executive Team

Get to know the people behind the success of Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Kathy J. Warden, Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President

Kathy J. Warden, Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President, Kathy J. Warden, Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President

Kathy Warden has served as the Northrop Grumman Corporation’s chair, CEO, and president since 2019. Warden is an experienced leader and business developer in government and commercial areas. Before becoming CEO, Warden was president and COO, managing the company’s four sectors and enterprise services group.

Ann Addison, Corporate Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Ann Addison, Corporate Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Ann Addison is the current Northrop Grumman’s vice president and chief human resources officer. Her business and human resources experience of over 30 years had led her to leading the company’s human capital strategy and programs, organization effectiveness, change leadership, performance management, talent development and acquisition, succession planning, executive development, training, and employee relations.

Matt Bromberg, Corporate Vice President for Global Operations

Matt Bromberg, Corporate Vice President for Global Operations

Matt Bromberg is Northrop Grumman’s corporate vice president of worldwide operations. Bromberg oversees enterprise-wide programs, processes, quality, supply chain, and technology and works with Northrop Grumman sector presidents to provide customer-focused solutions.

Bromberg is also a member of the company’s executive leadership team.

Mark Caylor, Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems

Mark Caylor, Corporate Vice President and President

Mark Caylor is the corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems business. Caylor’s team is responsible for developing and producing large-scale mission-critical platforms and systems integral to executing missions in all domains. Such platforms and systems include sensors, electronic warfare, survivability, etc.

Caylor joined Northrop Grumman in 2002 and headed the company’s Enterprise Shared Services unit, corporate strategy, and mergers and acquisitions.

Sheila C. Cheston, Corporate Vice President, and General Counsel

Sheila C. Cheston, Corporate Vice President and General Counsel

Sheila C. Cheston is the general counsel and vice president of Northrop Grumman Corporation and is in charge of all legal matters at Northrop Grumman. Before Northrop Grumman, Cheston is an executive vice president and board member in BAE Systems. She was responsible for legal matters, finance, strategy and planning, and acquisition.

Thomas H. Jones, Corporate Vice President and President

Thomas H. Jones, Corporate Vice President and President

Thomas (Tom) H. Jones serves as the vice president and president of the company’s Aeronautics Systems sector. He oversees the company’s military aircraft, autonomous systems, and aerospace structures. He previously served as the vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s Airborne Sensors & Networks division.

Lesley Kalan, Corporate Vice President and Chief Strategy and Development Officer

Lesley Kalan, Corporate Vice President and Chief Strategy and Development Officer

Lesley Kalan currently serves as Northrop Grumman’s vice president and chief strategy and development officer. In this role, she is responsible for the following:

  • Leading mergers and acquisitions, portfolio alignment, commercial relationships, and strategic planning
  • Managing the company’s commercial development and ensuring its portfolio serves clients’ missions
  • Leading Northrop Grumman’s policy, regulation, and government affairs
  • Overseeing interactions with the executive branch, Congress, and state and local officials

Dave Keffer, Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Dave Keffer, Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Dave Keffer serves as the vice president and chief financial officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation. He oversees the company’s overall business management, including the following:

  • Controller, treasury, contracts and pricing, financial strategy and planning
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Tax, internal audit
  • Investor relations
  • Trust administration and investments
  • Global supply chain
  • Business management organizations

David T. Perry, Corporate Vice President and Chief Global Business Officer

David T. Perry, Corporate Vice President and Chief Global Business Officer

David T. Perry is the current Northrop Grumman Corporation’s corporate vice president and chief global business officer. Perry oversees the company’s business and acquisitions outside the United States.

Perry has held several positions in the company. He was vice president and general manager of the naval and marine systems division of the Mission Systems sector.

Kenneth L. Robinson. Vice President, Global Corporate, and Responsibility and Chief Diversity Officer

Kenneth L. Robinson. Vice President, Global Corporate, and Responsibility and Chief Diversity Officer

Kenneth “Kenny” Robinson is Northrop Grumman’s vice president of Global Corporate Responsibility and Chief Diversity Officer. Robinson oversees the following operations:

  • Corporate citizenship
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Equal employment opportunity
  • Workplace accommodations
  • Ethics and business behavior efforts
  • NGCare and Operation IMPACT

He’s also president of the Northrop Grumman Foundation, overseeing STEM education, environment, veterans, and health and human.

Roshan Roeder, Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems

Roshan Roeder, Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems

Roshan Roeder is corporate vice president and Northrop Grumman Defense Systems sector president. She oversees the delivery of a broad spectrum of weapons, integrated battle command systems, and modernization capabilities to national security, military, and civil customers. Before her current role, she served as sector vice president and general manager of the Airborne Multifunction Sensors division for Northrop Grumman’s Mission Systems sector.

John Russell, Vice President and Chief Information Officer

John Russell, Vice President and Chief Information Officer

John Russell serves as Northrop Grumman’s vice president and chief information officer (CIO). He is responsible for Northrop Grumman’s overall IT strategy, cybersecurity, and digital engineering.

Russell leads a team focusing on innovative, collaborative technologies, business applications, and data management.

Before becoming CIO, Russell headed Solution Architecture and Engineering, Business Applications Development, and Engineering and Manufacturing.

Lucy C. Ryan, Corporate Vice President, Communications

Lucy C. Ryan, Corporate Vice President, Communications

As VP of Communications at Northrop Grumman, Lucy C. Ryan oversees media relations, internal communications, advertising, digital communications, branding, and executive communications.

Ryan has extensive experience in the field of workplace communications. She was Northrop Grumman’s vice president of enterprise communications and oversaw all communications for executives, employees, benefits, and HR.

Thomas L. Wilson, Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Thomas L. Wilson, Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Tom Wilson is the president of Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems business and a vice president at the company. Wilson manages the global strategy, design, construction, and delivery of space-related technologies for clients.

Wilson was Orbital ATK’s VP of strategy and commercial development for the Space Systems Group until the Northrop Grumman acquisition in 2018.

Michael Witt, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer

Michael Witt, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer

Mike Witt is the current Northrop Grumman’s vice president and chief sustainability officer. He oversees the company’s sustainability and environmental efforts. He also helped the company to create programs to reduce the company’s environmental impact. The program includes:

  • Enterprise-wide carbon reduction
  • Resource efficiency
  • Materials management techniques

Northrop Grumman Corporation Board of Directors

Here are the list of Northop Grumman Board of Directors:

  • Kathy Warden, Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President of Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • David Abney, Executive Chairman of the UPS Board of Directors; Former Chief Executive Officer of UPS
  • Marianne C. Brown, Co-Chief Operating Officer, Global Financial Solutions, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
  • Donald E. Felsinger, Lead Independent Director, Northrop Grumman; Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sempra Energy
  • Ann Marie Fudge, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Young & Rubicam Brands of WPP Group PLC
  • William H. Hernandez, Former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PPG Industries, Inc.
  • Madeleine A. Kleiner, Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Hilton Hotels Corporation
  • Karl J. Krapek, Former President and Chief Operating Officer of United Technologies Corporation
  • Graham N. Robinson, Senior Vice president and president of STANLEY Industrial
  • Gary Roughead, Admiral, United States Navy (Ret.), Former U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations
  • Thomas M. Schoewe, Former Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  • James S. Turley, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ernst & Young
  • Mark A. Welsh, III, Dean, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University

The Future of Aerospace and Technology

The Future of Aerospace and Technology

Northrop Grumman Corporation is one of the most successful technology companies that have even adopted different companies. The success of the company’s leadership is visible in the awards and recognitions they get every year, including the ranking 20 at DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity and placed number 10 in US Black Engineer Magazine’s Top 20 Industry Supporters.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has made many groundbreaking technological solutions, innovations, digital defenses and transformations, and more. With their combined expertise, Northrop Grumman leaders and executives have proven that no problems or challenges are impossible to tackle.

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Frank Calvelli Seeks to Accelerate Space Tech Procurement With 9 ‘Space Acquisition Tenets’
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Frank Calvelli Seeks to Accelerate Space Tech Procurement With 9 ‘Space Acquisition Tenets’

Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisitions and integration, issued a memo outlining nine “space acquisition tenets” meant to transform the way the service procures space systems, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

“The traditional ways of doing space acquisition must be reformed in order to add speed to our acquisitions to meet our priorities,” Calvelli wrote in the Oct. 31 memo obtained by the publication.

“To gain speed we must shorten development timelines by building smaller satellites, acquiring ground and software intensive systems in smaller more manageable pieces that can be delivered faster, using existing technology and designs,” he added.

Aside from advancing the development of smaller satellites, other tenets cited in the memo include getting the acquisition strategy correct, awarding contracts with realistic cost and schedule targets; maintaining stability in programs; and delivering ground systems before launch.

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Army Seeks Industry Feedback on Software Bills of Materials
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Army Seeks Industry Feedback on Software Bills of Materials

The U.S. Army has asked industry for insights on how to collect and use software bills of materials to help improve the security of its software supply chains and comply with the policies codified in the May 2021 executive order on cybersecurity.

The service will use the responses to the request for information to inform technical policies and contracting guidance for acquiring software, according to a notice published on Oct. 21.

Interested stakeholders should answer several questions related to SBOM requirements, including the type of contractual language that their companies expect to see from a solicitation that includes SBOMs as a primary deliverable and potential approaches that could be used to secure the supply chain when contracting for software development services.

The Army is also requesting information on new concepts that could be explored when contracting for secure software development.

Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said the military branch “is going to go headfirst into SBOMs,” according to a report by Federal News Network.

“Some of you might have concerns on it — that’s great,” Bang said during a panel on Oct. 11 at a conference in Washington. “We want to hear those concerns, come and talk to us specifically about it, but it’s going to happen. We’re going to do it, and the Army is going to be the first agency that is going to implement this correctly.”

Responses to the RFI are due Nov. 10.

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Executive Mosaic Launches 2023 Wash100 Award & Opens Executive Nominations For Historic 10th Season
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Executive Mosaic Launches 2023 Wash100 Award & Opens Executive Nominations For Historic 10th Season

Executive Mosaic, the government contracting sector’s premier media and events organization, is honored to announce the launch of the highly-anticipated 2023 Wash100 Award season for its historic tenth year.

The Wash100 Award, GovCon’s most prestigious accolade, annually recognizes the top 100 executives of consequence in the GovCon community in anticipation of their invaluable contributions, groundbreaking achievements and positive impact across the federal landscape in the coming year.

This year, Executive Mosaic anticipates the 2023 Wash100 Award season to be its most competitive and engaging race yet, as hundreds of GovCon’s top executives vie for the coveted title and compete to win a spot on the list of GovCon’s 100 key figures.

“For the tenth consecutive year, Executive Mosaic has accomplished the extraordinary task of identifying an amalgam of consequential leaders that represent a decade of unmatched growth, technological achievement and acceleration in our government and its critical public-private partnerships,” said Jim Garrettson, CEO and founder of Executive Mosaic.

“The award only continues to gain prominence within our community because its winners are recognized for their future contributions,” Garrettson continued. “The Wash100 Award is always about looking forward in our business.”

Do you know a GovCon executive who is deserving of GovCon’s highest honor? Submit your nominations for the most influential leaders in GovCon at Wash100.com! Nominations are open until Jan. 11, 2023.

“The GovCon community has always helped Executive Mosaic bring great prestige and honor to the true leaders and trailblazers of our industry with the annual presentation of the Wash100 Award,” said Garrettson. “As you nominate your executives for 2023, remember to recognize those in our community who will continue to demonstrate the highest level of commitment, innovation, vision, reliability and achievement.”

Last year’s 2022 Wash100 Award season garnered record-breaking participation in executive nominations and voting, with well over 1,100 votes cast for the popular vote winner, Lauren Knausenberger, CIO of the Department of the Air Force, and thousands more votes cast for other prominent 2022 Wash100 Award winners.

Executive Mosaic is now preparing for even more participation and engagement as it celebrates the Wash100 Award’s tenth anniversary.

Submit your nominations today at Wash100.com, and stay tuned for the 2023 Wash100 Award winners announcement in January!

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