NGA Director Frank Whitworth Wins 3rd Wash100 Award
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth has been named to Executive Mosaic’s prestigious 2024 Wash100 list in recognition of his GEOINT leadership and his work spearheading space and intelligence innovation efforts. This marks VADM Whitworth’s third consecutive Wash100 Award. Vote for Frank Whitworth to win the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition at Wash100.com! Voting ends April […]
NRO Director Christopher Scolese Receives 4th Consecutive Wash100 Award for Embracing Commercial Innovation, Promoting Industry Collaboration
Executive Mosaic is honored to name Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office, as a 2023 Wash100 Award recipient. The Wash100 is a list compiled annually by Executive Mosaic of the most influential and impactful executives working in the government contracting sector. Wash100 Award winners represent the best and brightest minds in GovCon, and they gain […]
US-Australia Space Surveillance Telescope Achieves IOC Status; Gen. John Raymond Quoted
The U.S. Space Force and the Australian defense department issued an initial operational capability declaration Friday for a ground-based military telescope being used to monitor deep-space objects. The Space Surveillance Telescope is designed to capture images of faint objects in geosynchronous orbit and is located at Harold E. Holt, a joint naval communication station in […]
Pentagon Updates Space Policy Document
The Department of Defense has issued an updated directive that acknowledges space “as a priority domain of national military power” and implements several “tenets of responsible behavior in space” that Lloyd Austin, secretary of DOD and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, outlined in a July 2021 memo, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. The new space policy document […]
Christopher Scolese: NRO Looks to Expand Commercial Satellite Capabilities
Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said the agency is looking to acquire more commercial products from the private sector following the awarding of a 10-year, multibillion-dollar contract to three space technology companies. Speaking at an event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Scolese said NRO […]
NRO Launches First National Security Mission Onboard Rocket Lab Spacecraft; Chris Scolese Quoted
The National Reconnaissance Office’s first national security payload was launched to orbit onboard a Rocket Lab spacecraft as part of the agency’s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket program. Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket carrying the NROL-162 mission lifted off from the company’s launch complex in New Zealand, NRO said Wednesday. NROL-162 is the first of […]
Iridium CEO Matt Desch Awarded 8th Consecutive Wash100 Recognition
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 […]
Gen. John Raymond, US Space Force’s Chief of Space Operations, Named to 2022 Wash100 for Leading Space Intelligence; Driving Industry Collaboration
Executive Mosaic is honored to name Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations at the U.S. Space Force, as a recipient of a 2022 Wash100 Award, the most acclaimed award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership with the Space Force to expand the new service branch’s space intelligence capabilities and collaboration with […]
Christopher Scolese, NRO Director, Wins 2022 Wash100 Award for Advancing ISR Missions Through Commercial Partnerships, Tech Innovation
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office, with the 2022 Wash100 Award in recognition of his efforts in leading the agency as it continues to deliver intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data to the intelligence community, Department of Defense and other space-based content recipients. This marks the third consecutive […]
Air Force Research Lab to Release Solicitation for Cislunar Domain Awareness Solicitation in March
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is planning to solicit offers in March for a satellite experiment that will track space objects between geostationary orbit and the moon, Defense News reported Monday. Col. Eric Felt, director of AFRL's Space Vehicles Directorate, said in a recent C4ISRNET interview that an award for the Cislunar Highway Patrol […]
Derek Tournear: SDA to Field Tracking Layer Satellites for Hypersonic Threat Detection
Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said SDA will deploy satellites in low-Earth orbit as part of the tracking layer to help detect hypersonic glide vehicles by their heat signatures, DOD News reported Wednesday. He said satellites of the tracking layer will communicate to the transport layer […]
Derek Tournear: SDA Seeks to Accelerate Delivery of Capabilities Via Spiral Development Model
Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said SDA uses the spiral development model to deliver “good enough” capabilities to warfighters every two years. He described the model as “profound” and noted that the framework could be used across the board, including activities that capitalize on commercial investments. […]
Space Force Tests Satellite Network Resiliency Via Simulated Training Exercise; Kathleen Hicks Quoted
The U.S. Space Force has started conducting a war game called Space Flag at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado to test the resiliency of satellite networks to threats posed by near-peer competitors such as Russia and China, Reuters reported Monday. Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense and a 2021 Wash100 Award […]
SDA Director Derek Tournear: Satellite, Launch Prices Have Dropped
Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency (SDA) and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said virtually in a Defense One panel that the military's goal to establish a network of low Earth orbit satellites is now more reachable as a result of commercialization. Tournear said launches now cost tens of millions of dollars compared to […]
Gen. John Raymond: Space Force to Handle Army, Navy SATCOM Operations
Gen. John Raymond, the chief of space operations and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, said the U.S. Space Force will be responsible for U.S. Army and U.S. Navy satellite communications, in an effort to consolidate SATCOM missions, DOD News reported Wednesday. Raymond said at the Air Force Association meeting that USSF would receive this authority […]