HawkEye 360 has named eight national security experts to its advisory board’s class of 2025. The signals intelligence data provider said Tuesday its newly appointed advisers are Mike Gilday, a retired U.S. Navy admiral; Christopher Miller, former acting secretary of defense; and Mike Studeman, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral. The returning me...
HawkEye 360 has made changes to its executive team to drive growth, streamline operations, improve service delivery and ensure agility to pursue emerging opportunities in the radio frequency geospatial intelligence market. “We have streamlined our organizational structure, defined new areas of responsibility, and aligned key roles to enable ou...
Chris Gregory, former vice president at HawkEye 360, has joined Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) as VP of product management for space domain awareness at its space-focused business arm, according to a LinkedIn post. He spent seven years at HawkEye 360, most recently serving as its VP of system engineering and operations. His...
Maxar Intelligence sold RF Solutions to HawkEye 360 in a bid for the latter to gain two radio frequency satellites and a global database ranging from 1.4 GHz to 40 GHz. HawkEye said Monday that it will have a total of 23 satellites as a result of the acquisition of RF Solutions, formerly Aurora Insight....
Rob Rainhart, formerly chief operating officer at HawkEye 360, was named president of the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered radio frequency and satellite systems developer. He will oversee programs, product development, technology delivery and human resources functions and guide the company’s strategy for expanding into the RF data and analytics...
Geospatial data analytics company HawkEye 360 has raised $59 million in a Series D-1 funding round and intends to use the new capital for space system development and defense mission support expansion. The financing activity was led by investment firm BlackRock, with the additional backing of seven other companies, HawkEye 360 said Thursday. Ma...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has appointed finance and technology leader David Farnsworth as chief financial officer and added Roger Krone, former chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and a 10-time Wash100 awardee, to the board as an independent director. Farnsworth will officially assume the CFO role at Mercury Systems on July 17, and will...
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded six companies separate contracts under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements program to provide insight into radio frequency remote sensing capabilities. Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, PredaSAR, Spire Global and Umbra Lab will conduct studies to inform the acquisition and integration of comme...
HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini said the company is considering pursuing a new funding round and possibly an initial public offering in the next two years, SpaceNews reported Friday. “As we contemplate our next round, I think we will continue to look for private sources of capital, particularly for perhaps a pre IPO round, in...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 2, 2022 — HawkEye 360 and the U.S. Army have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to create and showcase overhead radio frequency-sensing capabilities for tactical warfighter support, ExecutiveBiz reported. “This partnership will support the Army’s modernization initiative to develop more efficie...
