Peter Smith, former president and CEO of American Systems, has been elected chairman of the board of directors at the engineering and information technology contractor. Smith, who retired after more than four decades of company service, succeeds Bill Hoover, who has been chairman of the board since 2015, American Systems said Wednesday. “I want to

Michele Flournoy, co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm WestExec Advisors and a former Department of Defense official, has been appointed to Rivada Networks‘ board of directors. Flournoy said in a statement released Thursday she aims to help Rivada “transform the global communications landscape” with its OuterNET satellite network. From February 2009 to February 2012, she

Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has named interim President and CEO William Ballhaus as the next chairman of its board of directors and appointed Scott Ostfeld, a managing partner at hedge fund Jana Partners, as an independent director. The board also decided to reduce the number of seats from 11 to nine in a move that