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The Potomac Officers Club is hosting its highly-anticipated 2024 Army Summit on June 13, bringing together the country’s top Army officials, defense experts and industry leaders to discuss the Army’s most significant challenges, opportunities, strategies and initiatives. This annual event serves as a vital platform for government and GovCon exe...
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...
Mark Santamaria, formerly senior vice president and chief financial officer at CAES, has assumed the CFO role at Austal‘s shipbuilding arm in the U.S. He has three decades of experience in finance and executive leadership, including more than 20 years at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), where he was divisional CFO, Austal USA said Thursday. “We...
Brent Pugh, a more than 20-year aerospace and defense industry executive, has joined information technology services provider Red River as chief financial officer. He most recently served as CFO at CAE‘s defense and security business and oversaw the organization’s over 6,000 employees, Red River said Monday. Red River CEO Brian Roach said Pu...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential $3.4 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to produce 17 P-8A Poseidon aircraft for Canada and Germany. The company said Thursday it will manufacture 14 Poseidon planes for Canada’s air force and three units for the German navy. “The Poseidon is a proven aircraft, with more than 600,000...
Erin Kocourek, an aerospace and defense industry executive, has been appointed vice president of business development for the national security and innovative systems sector at CACI International. She announced her move to CACI in a LinkedIn post published Monday. Kocourek brings to the role her enterprise leadership experience, P&L expertise, k...
The LGM-35A Sentinel, formerly known as Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), is an intercontinental ballistic missile representing the ground-based leg of the United States nuclear triad. Currently under development, it aims to enhance the nuclear deterrent capabilities of all U.S. military operations and programs worldwide. Read this art...
Mick Jaggers, a 13-year Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) veteran, has been appointed chief operating officer at Epirus, a Torrance, California-based directed energy system manufacturer. Jaggers announced his new post Tuesday on LinkedIn and he assumed the role after serving as the company’s senior vice president and general manager for defense. Be...
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...
