The State Department has approved a potential $691 million foreign military sales request of the government of the Netherlands to buy 246 AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II tactical missiles, related equipment and support services from the U.S. government. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday RTX (NYSE: RTX) will serve as the principal contra...
Jamie Landers, a former director at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been selected as the new president of Outpost. The veteran aerospace executive revealed her appointment at the space technology company in a LinkedIn post shared Thursday. Before joining Outpost, Landers was the CEO of J13 Consulting, a consulting firm that aids spac...
Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) has finalized its acquisition of CAES from private equity firm Advent International and appointed industry executive Brad Westphal as president of the multinational conglomerate’s electromagnetic defensive solutions division. Expanding Defense Technology Capabilities Honeywell said Wednesday it expects the acquisition t...
Steve Schorer will succeed Stu Shea as chairman, president and CEO of Peraton, effective Sept. 9. Both executives are repeat recipients of the Wash100 Award, which annually recognizes the most influential leaders in the GovCon sector. The portfolio company of Veritas Capital said Tuesday Schorer has more than three decades of experience in leading c...
David Rodgers, a defense industry executive, has joined Ultra Intelligence & Communications as vice president of global sales. Ultra I&C said Tuesday Rodgers will oversee the company’s domestic and international sales initiatives and support business development efforts for the U.S. military and foreign defense ministries. “David...
In GovCon Wire’s latest Executive Spotlight interview, we sat down with Ashutosh Gokhale, chief financial officer and senior vice president of business management at HII Mission Technologies, to learn more about the company’s culture and its future endeavors. Since he joined HII in 2021, Gokhale has been responsible for Mission Technologies’ ...
Future Technologies Inc. has appointed Nathan Glass as vice president of finance, according to the executive’s LinkedIn post shared Wednesday. Glass spent five years at EverWatch, a Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) company, before joining FTI. He served as its director of compliance and special projects, director of financial pla...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has started soliciting proposals for a potential $499 million contract to research, develop, test, prototype, demonstrate and transition technologies that support the development of vision protection materials and materials for electromagnetic spectrum resilience. According to a solicitation published Tuesday, AFRL&...
A Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) subsidiary has secured a $114 million task order from the U.S. Army to enhance missile defense systems. The company said the award to Teledyne Brown Engineering was made by the Army Space and Missile Defense Command under the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration Domain 1 contract. Teledyne Brown Engi...
In early August, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a new edition of the National Counterintelligence Strategy. The refreshed version includes nine goals split across three pillars, which focus on addressing threats posed by foreign intelligence entities...
