Danielle Smith, former vice president of application solutions at BAE Systems, was named the interim VP and BTO of space and mission systems at the U.S. business arm of the British defense contractor, according to her LinkedIn announcement. “In this role, I will lead all [information technology] integration work for the recently acquired Ball ...
Jonathan Greenert, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, will take on the role of chair of the board of directors at the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems. He will succeed Kelly Ayotte, a former senator who has held the position of board chair at BAE Systems Inc. since December 2021, the company said Friday. Ayotte will...
BAE Systems has secured a $95 million contract to equip the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon multi-mission maritime aircraft with electronic warfare advanced countermeasure pods to protect against missile threats. The pods will provide the maritime patrol plane with early threat detection and countermeasures to detect and counter incoming threats and...
Ricardo Gonzalez, formerly vice president of microelectronics at Frontgrade Technologies, has been appointed chief transformation officer at the Colorado-based provider of analog and radiation-hardened technologies for aerospace and defense applications, according to his LinkedIn post. He will help drive performance excellence, capture strategic gro...
Herrick Technology Laboratories, a portfolio company of Blue Delta Capital Partners, has appointed Ron Sayco, a veteran finance leader, as chief financial officer. “[Sayco] brings decades of proven finance leadership in Defense Technology at a critical inflection point in our growth, especially given the recent venture capital investment that HTL ...
Jen Rodriguez, a program manager with 26 years of combined military and industry experience, has been promoted to vice president of the Intel sector division at ManTech, GovCon Wire has learned. She will report directly to Barbara Haines-Parmele, president of the Intel sector, as she oversees the division’s growth strategy and manages a team s...
BAE Systems has secured a $450 million contract from NASA to design and develop an ocean-color instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next-generation geostationary satellite program. The company will manufacture two flight instruments to monitor and analyze ocean data for the Geostationary Extended Observations sa...
BAE Systems has secured a $365 million contract from NASA to build an air quality monitoring instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite constellation. The GeoXO Atmospheric Composition instrument is a hyperspectral spectrometer that will take hourly observations of air pol...
Heather Newlin, a GovCon industry executive, has joined federal information technology company NuAxis Innovations as chief delivery officer. NuAxis Innovations CEO Raza Latif announced Newlin’s appointment in a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. “With Heather’s extensive experience in service delivery and her expertise in leading m...
BAE Systems has expanded its modeling and simulation solutions business with the addition of Topaz Intelligence, a custom intelligence services provider acquired through its Ball Aerospace acquisition in February. Under the integration, BAE Systems said Thursday it will work with Topaz Intelligence to market intelligence-as-a-service offerings to...
