Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has received a potential $375M contract to build and demonstrate a power and propulsion component for NASA’s proposed lunar space station intended to support the agency™s planned 2024 moon landing. Maxar said Thursday it will lead a team that includes Draper and Blue Origin to develop and operate the solar ...
Peter LaMontagne, president and CEO of geospatial intelligence firm Quantum Spatial, has been appointed to ManTech International‘s (Nasdaq: MANT) board of directors. LaMontagne, who also worked for ManTech as senior corporate vice president, previously served as CEO of Novetta prior to 2019 Wash100 award recipient Tiffanny Gates™ appointm...
A McAleese & Associates report says the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding programs would receive $21.7B under the $690B fiscal 2020 defense funding bill passed by the House Appropriations Committee. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, listed in the report some of the fully funded shipbuil...
Joe Martore, CEO and a board member at Calibre Systems, has been named chairman of the company™s board of directors. He will succeed James Terry Scott, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who served as chairman since 2017, the company said Thursday. Martore™s œextensive experience will provide an immeasurable asset to the company a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 23, 2019 ” Julie Gravallese, vice president for programs and technology integration at Mitre , represented the nonprofit in signing an agreement with the National Security Collaboration Center at the University of Texas at San Antonio to undertake a series of pilot programs designed to advance research and workforce devel...
Jim Garrettson, chief executive officer of Executive Mosaic, presented Jon Spaner, Public Sector Practice for McKinsey & Company, with the Chairman™s Award for completing his second year as chairman of the DHS Group for Executive Mosaic™s 4×24 program. Spaner has served in his role with McKinsey & Co. since Feb. 2016. ...
Wes Bush, chairman of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) since 2011, has joined the board of directors at Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO). His appointment brings the number Cisco’s board members to 10, the company said Wednesday. The 35-year aerospace and defense industry veteran led Northrop as chief executive from 2010 to 2018 and previously held the po...
A McAleese & Associates report says the House Appropriations Committee passed a spending bill that would authorize $690B in fiscal 2020 funds for the Department of Defense, reflecting a 2.3 percent increase from DoD’s current budget. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote in t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 22, 2019 ” Peraton will work to operate and maintain communications equipment for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system in support of the U.S. Army’s 59th Signal Battalion over five years under a $14.9M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the GMD Secure Communications Operations and ...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) received a potential $275M contract from the Defense Microelectronics Activity to help secure the supply chain that provides semiconductor products and services to the military. The Department of Defense said Tuesday IBM will work to establish manufacturing flows at contractor fabrication facilities as part of the Trusted Foundry Acc...
