Sterling Jones, a two-decade industry veteran, was named vice president and general manager of Agile Development Group at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), according to a LinkedIn announcement. Jones previously served as general manager of military avionics at the Melbourne, Florida-headquartered defense contracting company. The executive has been ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential 10-year, $4.1 billion follow-on contract from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop and integrate updates and capabilities into the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications system. Under the C2BMC-Next program, Lockheed said Thursday it will improve sensor connection and a...
George Wilson and Tom Weston, former executives of ECS Federal, have partnered with private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners to invest and build a company dedicated to providing mission-critical technologies for federal government customers. Wilson and Weston intend to grow a company that offers technology products and capabilities to custo...
Mark D’Alessandro, a strategic information technology executive who previously served as a Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) vice president, was named chief technology officer at Four Points Technology, according to his LinkedIn announcement. He brings to the IT-focused, service disabled veteran owned small business nearly three decades of experi...
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Young Bang received his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent 4×24 executive leadership series event. Vote for Young Bang to win the Wash100 popular vote competition at Wash100.com! Voting is open until April 30, ...
Van Gurley’s successful career in government contracting might appear largely happenstance. “I typically said yes and would walk through that door even when I wasn’t sure what was on the other side of it,” Gurley told us about opportunities he encountered that proved invaluable later in his career. He began his working life as a...
Open radio access networks, or Open RAN, is a new approach to RANs that separates traditionally integrated hardware and software and upholds a set of specific standards to enable multiple vendors to provide different components under one cloud service provider’s network. The Department of Defense has made 5G a top priority, and it has taken notic...
Peraton Chair, President and CEO Stu Shea received his 2024 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to Peraton offices. Vote for Stu Shea as your favorite GovCon executive at Wash100.com! The exciting Wash100 popular vote competition is on now until April 30. The winner will be announced in May. “I am cont...
Tyto Athene, a portfolio company of Washington, D.C.-based private investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has closed its purchase of software development firm Microtel for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to broaden its customer relationships and space system capabilities. Microtel is a systems engineering firm that develops mission-critica...
Carrie George, formerly a vice president at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), has been named VP, chief financial officer and treasurer at nonprofit research and development company Draper. George, who brings to the role two decades of aerospace and defense industry experience, will oversee efforts to drive the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company...
