TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 7, 2019 ” The Raytheon-sponsored (NYSE: RTN) National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition awarded a team from the University of Virginia last month as the 2019 champion of the cybersecurity contest, ExecutiveBiz reported April 26. The company said April 26 the university repeats as the winner of the Alamo Cup, besting ni...
With only five days left to vote, the race for first place in the Wash100 rankings remains white-hot as the finish line approaches on April 30th. David Wajsgras of Raytheon took first place from Tiffanny Gates of Novetta, Steve Harris of Dell EMC Federal and Teresa Carlson of Amazon Web Services climbed the rankings and...
Carl Rosenblatt, formerly mid-Atlantic sales and marketing leader at PwC, has joined health information technology systems provider CNSI as an executive vice president and chief business development officer. He will oversee CNSI™s sales and business development initiatives, the company said Wednesday. Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of CNSI and a 2019 Wa...
The U.S. Army has awarded other transaction agreements to five contractors to provide initial designs of the service™s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft platform, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin™s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, AVX Aircraft, Textron™s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary a...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) reported $133.7M in total revenue for the first quarter of 2019, up 12 percent from the same period last year. The company said Tuesday the total number of billable subscribers rose to 1.15M in Q1 2019, showing a year-over-year growth of 16 percent associated with the rise in government and commercial...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Lou Von Thaer, president and chief executive officer of Battelle, with his fourth Wash100 Award on Tuesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Von Thaer for leading efforts to advance biosecurity and other emerging technologies for Battelle. We are pleased to present the most coveted award in g...
Justin Sanchez, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s biological technologies office, will officially join Battelle in late June to serve as a technical fellow. “Dr. Sanchez will be joining Battelle to lead scientific advancement across our broad portfolio of life science offerings in medical devices, pharmaceutical...
Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has secured a three-year, $201.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long lead parts and materials needed to produce lot 14 propulsion systems for the F-35 aircraft. The modification combines orders from the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department ...
American Electronic Warfare Associates has won a potential five-year, $99.7M contract to develop, integrate and maintain battlespace simulation tools for the U.S. Navy. AMEWAS will help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division create warfare scenarios, and battlespace entity models as well as provide customer support for delivered products, th...
Twist Bioscience Corporation (TWST) became the first to implement Battelle™s ThreatSEQ web service DNA screening platform to detect and characterize sequences of concern in genomic data, supplementing its internal biosecurity efforts, TWST announced on Tuesday. œWe have spent decades working with and characterizing biothreats to support gl...
