Pratt & Whitney, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, has received a $736.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide military service branches and non-Department of Defense organizations with spare parts for the F-35 aircraft propulsion system. The contractor will also deliver F-135 engine modules, support equipment...
Seth Finkel, former vice president of advanced technology at Amentum, has been named VP of the public sector business at Sunnyvale, California-based spatial data company Matterport (Nasdaq: MTTR). The 25-year industry veteran will oversee Matterport’s strategic and revenue growth efforts in the government market as it aims to help agencies tra...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Building the Future Battle: The Keys to JADC2 on Tuesday to showcase the key executives’ efforts as they work to develop the first phase of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and address the speed and timing challenges of technology development for our military branches and systems. Following an...
President Joe Biden and representatives from the commercial and education sectors discussed commitments and initiatives to counter cybersecurity threats at a meeting held Wednesday at the White House. The Biden administration has expanded the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to include natural gas pipelines and announced a Nationa...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $487 million contract from the U.S. Army for the provision of engineering services and technical support to the service branch’s Apache AH-64 attack helicopters through Feb. 6, 2026. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Army Contracting Command has task orders that will determine work locations and fu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug 20, 2021 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) delivered Certus Thales VesseLINK marine satellite broadband terminals to the Canadian Coast Guard and Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium and seven-time Wash100 awardee, said the company aims to provide the service branch with reliable internet and stable connection in support of its ...
Matt Donovan, most recently undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, will serve as vice president of customer engagement and solutions at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business, effective Aug. 23. He will directly report to Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Intelligence and Space and a 2021 Wash100 Award ...
Hughes Network Systems plans to offer satellite communications platforms to the U.S. Air Force through the company’s prime position on a $950 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the development of an all-domain military information sharing system. Germantown, Maryland-based Hughes said Tuesday it was one of the compani...
Paul McQuillan, a strategic partner at Battle Investment Group, was appointed as chief growth and strategy officer at Oceus Networks, a government telecommunication services provider that the private investment management firm acquired in 2020. The executive will use his more than three decades of experience in technology products and services to dr...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $157 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency update an integrated architecture that offers commanders a global view of the battlespace. The company said Tuesday it will perform Spiral 8.2-7 upgrade work on MDA’s Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications system to help Ground-B...
