Harnessing powerful technologies, constantly innovating and making the force more lethal are some of the top focus areas for the U.S. Army’s new Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George. At the Association of the U.S. Army’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition in October, George outlined his main priorities. If you’re interested in the Army...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has agreed to sell its Raytheon’s cybersecurity, intelligence and services business to an undisclosed buyer for approximately $1.3 billion. The company announced the move in its third-quarter earnings report published Tuesday. Reuters reported that private equity firm Blackstone was the prospective purchaser of the business. The Ra...
Virtru has appointed industry veterans Carrick Longley as senior vice president of global public sector and Jason Green as vice president of federal sales as the company seeks to build its growth momentum. Both executives bring decades of experience overseeing modernization programs for public sector customers, the Washington, D.C.-headquarter...
The shares of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) popped 4.03 percent to $242.40 on mid-week after the company reported a 6 percent year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter of 2023 to $10.6 billion versus Q3 2022. Another business highlight was the $95.6 billion company-wide backlog, the highest ever in the defense contractor’s history. Net earn...
Keith Flynn, formerly senior vice president of product and engineering at Glydways, has taken on the newly created role of SVP of manufacturing at Anduril Industries. He will help scale the production of autonomous systems for domestic and international customers and lead a team of 200 engineers and technicians across the U.S. and Australia, Anduril...
The U.S. Navy awarded Nuclear Fuel Services, a subsidiary of BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), a two-year $300 million contract to support the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. BWXT said Tuesday the company has begun producing fuel for the program, which is expected to be completed by mid-2025. The project involves manufacturing and delivering naval nu...
Ron Fizer, fellow emeritus for management strategy at LMI, said Congress should act now to reauthorize the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office to protect the country from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. In a blog post published on LMI’s website, Fizer wrote that DHS CWMD Office ...
Tessa Baerlocher, most recently deputy general manager of the space superiority business group at LinQuest, has assumed the role of vice president and business lead of the space systems technology developer’s TMC Design subsidiary. In this capacity, she will oversee growth initiatives within TMC and advance modernization in the areas of digita...
Matt Teschke, formerly associate director at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services arm, has been named chief technology officer at government information technology services contractor Redhorse. He will help drive the company’s product development and enhancement efforts to meet federal customers’ mission requirements, Redhorse ...
Laura Taylor-Kale, assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy, said the Department of Defense plans to issue a national strategy to guide the modernization of the U.S. industrial base, DOD News reported Friday. According to Taylor-Kale, the National Defense Industrial Strategy is scheduled for release in December and will focus on cre...
