BAE Systems has promoted Tara Olivet to senior vice president of finance. Olivet, who assumed the role on Saturday, is responsible for leading the financial operations of U.S.-based businesses, which generated sales of $16.85 billion in 2024 and employs more than 40,000 employees across the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden, BAE Systems s...
American Rheinmetall has named Rob Selle, a nearly three-decade product development executive, as vice president of program management and product support. Selle announced his new position in a LinkedIn post published Sunday. Rob Selle’s Industry Background According to his LinkedIn profile, he joined American Rheinmetall from U.S. vehicle man...
Matthew Hollandsworth, former director at AMERICAN SYSTEMS, has joined BAE Systems to serve as vice president of security, intelligence and security sector, according to his LinkedIn announcement. Hollandsworth brings to BAE experience in developing strategies for protecting personnel, information and assets. He spent nearly a decade at AMERICAN SYS...
Gary Goodwin, formerly president and CEO at Nammo Defense Systems, has been named chief executive of the U.S.-based munitions division of German defense company Rheinmetall, according to a LinkedIn post published Monday. He took the helm at American Rheinmetall Munitions after four years at Nammo Defense Systems, a Mesa, Arizona-headquartered subsid...
Canada has requested to buy from the U.S. government munitions and related systems for integration with General Atomics-built MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial vehicles under a $313.4 million foreign military sales agreement approved by the State Department. The proposed FMS transaction includes AN/APY-8 Lynx synthetic aperture radars, AGM-114R2 Hel...
GovCon industry veteran Bill Ballhaus has assumed the position of president and CEO of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY). He took on the roles on an interim basis on June 24 at the Andover, Massachusetts-based technology company, Mercury said Tuesday. “After conducting a review of potential candidates with the assistance of an executive search firm, ...
David Huisenga, former chief strategy officer at Sigma Defense Systems, has been appointed executive vice president and general manager of North American operations at Domo Tactical Communications. Huisenga has more than two decades of experience in communications system integration efforts for defense customers, DTC said Wednesday. At Sigma Defense...
Thirty-seven vendors have won spots on a potential 10-year, $32.5 billion multiple-award contract for the design, development, production and sustainment of training systems. The Training Systems Acquisition IV indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers analysis, installation, integration and testing support for aircrew, maintenance and...
Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from r...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has assigned the role of vice president of finance to Vivek Upadhyaya, former chief financial officer, treasurer and chief information officer at Leonardo‘s electronics subsidiary in the U.S. He will oversee Mercury’s corporate finance team and its forecasting, internal management reporting and analysis fun...
