On Dec. 27, 2021 President Joe Biden signed into law the $770 billion National Defense Authorization Act for 2022, which gives a significant funding boost to critical Department of Defense initiatives including adopting emerging technologies, bolstering deterrence capabilities and modernizing military fleets. Of the NDAA’s total funding, $117...
Hollis Cash, who has two decades of experience in business development and information technology services, has joined Client Solution Architects as vice president of capture and innovative solutions. In his role, Cash oversees the development and implementation of CSA’s overall capture strategy and manages technical offerings that align with its ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential five-year, $625 million contract to update and maintain logistics information systems for the British military. The U.K. defense ministry said Thursday the company will support modernization work on LogIS software applications to provide the country’s service personnel a single technology platform for ...
Six large and small businesses have secured positions on a pair of contracts worth $977.4 million combined, to help the U.S. Navy maintain non-nuclear surface combatant and amphibious vessels that are visiting or stationed in the Norfolk, Virginia, port. Naval Sea Systems Command is procuring modernization, repair and maintenance services for six sh...
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has named Deborah Fox, a 35-year defense industry veteran, as the new member of the board of directors for CTC’s wholly owned affiliate Enterprise Ventures Corp. She will work with six current EVC board members including Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of CTC, the company said Tuesday. Fox previously worked at BAE...
Eve, an urban air mobility platforms provider established by Embraer, has agreed to merge with blank check company Zanite Acquisition (Nasdaq: ZNTE) in a transaction that would take the former public and give the combined entity a pro forma equity value of $2.9 billion. The boards of directors of Embraer and Zanite have unanimously approved...
The State Department has approved two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $9.4 billion combined for frigate modernization support and four multimission surface combatant ships or future frigates that the government of Greece intends to procure. The FMS deal for four Hellenic Future Frigates is worth $6.9 billion and the transaction...
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2022. He will also serve on the association’s executive committee along with Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile, who is set...
Lisa Gaisford, a nearly 27-year public and private sector veteran, has joined Amyx as director of federal civilian programs, according to her LinkedIn post. She joins the Reston, Virginia-based management and information technology services provider after her tenure as managing director at Washington, D.C.-based tech company Dcode, where she oversaw...
Robert Smith, formerly a human resources executive at BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary, has joined Amentum as vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion. He brings more than three decades of government and industry experience to his position and will be responsible for reinforcing Amentum’s workplace culture, the company said Tuesday...
