Suzanne McBride, formerly chief operations officer and senior vice president at OneWeb, has been named COO of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) effective Feb. 11. She will succeed the retiring Scott Smith, who will continue to work at Iridium in a consulting capacity through March 15 to facilitate the transition, the company said Friday. Smith j...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 25, 2018 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has officially launched the Iridium Certus broadband service that will work to deliver voice and internet connectivity at 352 kilobits per second for terrestrial and maritime applications, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 17. The company said Jan. 16 the L-band...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report on the U.S. Air Force™s priorities for 2020 discussed by USAF Undersecretary Matthew Donovan at an Air Force Association event. Donovan said Friday at the AFA event that readiness remains the Air Force™s top priority and that the service plans to increase its operational sq...
Textron™s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a four-year, $439.5M contract modification to build 25 lot 16 AH-1Z twin-engine attack helicopters for the U.S. Navy. Bell Helicopter will also provide 25 stores control units as part of the modification, which exercises an option under a previously awarded fixed-price-ince...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 10, 2018 ” Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM), has indicated the possibility that the company will launch the six ground spare satellites in the Iridium NEXT constellation if there is an opportunity for a rideshare mission, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Space News reported Jan. 3 that Northrop Gr...
Matt Preschern, formerly senior vice president of marketing at CA Technologies, has joined Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity firm Forcepoint as chief marketing officer. He will report to Forcepoint CEO Matthew Moynahan and oversee the company™s sales enablement, revenue generation, brand awareness and other global marketing initiatives, the com...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has received a $714M delivery order to modernize 174 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks for the U.S. Army. The company said Tuesday it will equip the vehicles with version 3 of the M1A2 System Enhancement Package that includes updated communications and armor technologies. The order ...
Cadence Aerospace, a portfolio company of investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has named former Pratt & Whitney executive Kevin Martin as chief information officer. The more than 30-year industry veteran most recently served as associate director of military engines business development at the United Technologies Corp....
Sharon Watts, formerly an executive at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has joined Constellis as chief administrative officer. Constellis CEO Tim Reardon said in a statement released Monday Watts brings to the company “a strong background in information systems, human resources, staffing and optimizing merger and ...
United Technologies Corp.™s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a five-year, $230.1M contract from the U.S. Navy to support flight testing of a new F-35 aircraft propulsion system. Pratt & Whitney will help test F-35 Block 4 engine technology for Navy, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps and non-Dep...
