An RTX (NYSE: RTX) business will upgrade the U.S. Navy’s MK 15 Close-In Weapon Systems under a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $159.9 million. Raytheon will supply MK 15 Mod 31 SeaRAM upgrade kits and associated hardware to the service branch over a three-year period, the Department of Defense said Friday. The military and aerospace ...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has appointed Christoph Feddersen, a legal professional in the aerospace and defense industry for more than 25 years, as vice president, general counsel and secretary. The company said Friday he succeeds the retiring Scott Mikuen, who has been with L3Harris for nearly three decades, including 15 years as ...
Lynker Space has unveiled a new capability designed to predict and mitigate the impact of space weather threats on critical assets, services and industries and appointed Scott McIntosh, a more than 25-year solar and astrophysicist, as vice president of space operations. The space weather dashboard provider announced the launch of the new service and...
Dan Jablonsky, former president and CEO of Maxar Technologies and a two-time Wash100 awardee, will succeed Joe Laurienti as chief executive of Ursa Major. Jablonsky, an aerospace and defense industry veteran, will take the helm of Ursa Major and lead the company through its next stages of growth, effective Aug. 5, the rocket and missile...
HII (NYSE: HII) released its second quarter 2024 results that showed growth across all core business segments. The shipbuilder said Thursday its consolidated revenue rose 6.8% year-over-year to a record $2.97 billion, while net income climbed 33.1% to $173 million compared to Q2 2023. Chris Kastner, president and CEO of HII, shared, “Mission T...
Tria Federal, a middle-market tech and advisory services firm, has established a new group to build and test emerging technologies designed to address the challenges facing federal government customers. The company said Thursday Tria Federal Chief Technology Officer John Cho and a team of engineers, technologists and developers will lead the tech in...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) posted a record revenue of $1.7 billion during the second quarter of 2024, reflecting a year-over-year growth of 23 percent, and ended the quarter with a total backlog of $8.8 billion with a book-to-bill ratio of 0.9x on net bookings of $1.5 billion. The Centreville, Virginia-based defense and infrastructure engineering company s...
5G is transforming communications around the world. But is the U.S. keeping up with adversaries in this critical technology area? Are we adopting 5G in the battlespace quickly enough to outpace threats? What’s next for 5G? We sat down with General Rob Spalding to find out. Hear Gen. Spalding speak at the Potomac Officers Club’s...
Erik Ekwurzel, a former Dun & Bradstreet senior executive, has joined Slingshot Aerospace as chief data and information officer, according to his LinkedIn announcement. He has over 23 years of experience at D&B, where he most recently served as senior vice president and chief technology officer for public sector. Ekwurzel’s two-decade ...
Venice Goodwine, the Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer, accepted her 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Air Defense Summit. Garrettson founded the Wash100 Award in 2014 to celebrate the foremost change-makers shaping the government contr...
