AeroVironment stockholders have approved the issuance of AV common stock for the acquisition of the defense engineering company BlueHalo. In a statement posted Tuesday, Wahid Nawabi, chairman, president and CEO of AV, said the milestone will enable his company to move forward with BlueHalo’s acquisition and turn AV into a leading def...
CAE Defense & Security has secured a recompete contract valued at $180 million to continue providing comprehensive flight training support for the U.S. Army’s advanced airframes. The company said Monday it was awarded the competitive recompete contract under the Advanced Helicopter Flight Training Support, or AHFTS, program. The renew...
Chad Kleist has been appointed vice president of human resources at Cherokee Federal as part of the government contractor’s efforts to bolster its workforce in support of its ongoing expansion. The federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses said Monday Kleist has a proven track record of driving global teams through t...
The Department of Government Efficiency, a.k.a. DOGE, is the most prominent and transformative thing happening in the federal government right now — it’s tough to argue with that, no matter if you’re in the industrial base serving the government, working in the commercial sector or a government official yourself. According to GovSpend, the...
Intelligence technology company Nightwing has acquired Roka Security for an undisclosed sum to strengthen its capacity to deliver more targeted, full-spectrum cyber platforms to government and private sector customers. Expanding Cyber Capabilities Dulles, Virgnia-based Nightwing said Thursday it expects Roka Security’s team of experts to compl...
We last spoke to Davidson Technologies’ James Parys at our sister publication ExecutiveBiz about a year ago and the conversation centered around Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control. Though Parys has transitioned to a new company since then, his faith in the capabilities of advanced technologies and how they can enable Depar...
Bridget Bean has built her career solving the government’s most complex and challenging problems. Now the executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Bean uses her leadership and experience to drive institutional continuity and enterprise operational excellence to help the agency realize its full range of capab...
Lockheed Martin has appointed Daniel Nimblett, a more than two-decade company veteran, as vice president of integrated air and missile defense, or IAMD, layered homeland defense. “I’ll be working with a brilliant and dedicated team to ensure a whole-of-industry approach in delivering an innovative next-generation missile defense shield f...
The State Department has approved Qatar’s foreign military sale request for MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft, or RPA, and related equipment worth an estimated $1.96 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Wednesday General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Boeing, L3Harris, Leonardo S.p.A., Lockheed Marti...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a General Dynamics subsidiary a $1 billion contract modification to provide long lead time materials to support the construction of Block VI Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines. Scope of Contract Action The Department of Defense said Tuesday General Dynamics Electric Boat will perform work on the undefinitized ...
