Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has been elected to serve as chair of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2024. Colbert, who also serves as an executive vice president at Boeing, succeeds Tom Gentile as chairman and will serve on the association’s exe...
Pete Nelson, former vice president at Peraton, will join digital services and management consulting company MetroStar as chief growth officer, according to his LinkedIn announcement. During his over five years of stay at Peraton, Nelson handled various responsibilities as capture VP earlier and as capture and operations VP recently. He oversaw a pro...
The State Department has approved a potential $2.53 billion foreign military sale of M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks and related equipment to the government of Romania. The potential FMS deal includes 54 M1A2 System Enhancement Program version 3 vehicles, 54 M1A1 structures, four M88A2 Hercules combat recovery vehicles, four M1110 joint assault bridge...
John Avalos, chief growth officer at Arcfield since March, has been appointed chief operating officer at the Chantilly, Virginia-headquartered government and mission support services company. He will continue to manage growth and technology functions, provide operational oversight for the company’s three business sectors and help plan for futu...
Kris Chester was elevated to the role of chief technology officer at WTI, a Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology services provider that caters to the U.S. service branches, defense and civilian agencies and other government organizations, according to his LinkedIn post. The executive most recently served as WTI’s enterprise architect...
Ball’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business has received a potential 15-year, $486.9 million contract from NASA to build a sounder instrument for the space agency’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite program with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ball Aerospace & Technologies will provide spacecraft integration a...
The U.S. Army has procured more 155mm Excalibur projectiles from Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX (NYSE: RTX), under a $276.5 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract. Raytheon secured a $200.2 million initial award in April 2019 to supply containerized M982A1 Excalibur Increment IB munition to soldiers. The Department of ...
A new McAleese & Associates report shows that defense prime contractors posted a 7 percent to 9 percent rise in sales during the second quarter of 2022 and record-high backlogs as the Department of Defense accelerates contract awards. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the...
Jerry Boegler, vice president of growth for Axient‘s national security and space systems segment since June 2021, has been promoted to the chief growth officer role. He will lead strategy development, advise on merger-and-acquisition activity and supervise teams focused on business development, capture, proposal and pricing functions, Axient s...
Andrew Campbell was elevated to the role of vice president of business development at Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) Australian business arm, where he recently served as director of capture operations. He will be responsible for driving in-country business pursuits through oversight of capture and business development professionals, Leidos Australia sai...
