Chugach Government Solutions has appointed Dirk van der Vaart, a more than 25-year defense and security industry executive, as president and Michael Iacobucci, a more than 15-year government contracting industry veteran, as senior vice president and chief growth officer. The company said Wednesday van der Vaart will also serve as executive VP of Chu...
Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology, accepted her 2024 Wash100 Award during a recent meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO and Wash100 Founder Jim Garrettson. Each year, Wash100 identifies and celebrates the most accomplished leaders in the government contracting field. Winners are selected using an intensi...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has added Blue Origin and Stoke Space Technologies to the vendor pool of launch providers as part of the second on-ramping process to the fourth iteration of the Orbital Services Program. SSC said Wednesday OSP-4 is a potential $986 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with an or...
Institute for Defense Analyses has secured a potential five-year, $1.42 billion contract from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide research, analyses, test and evaluation support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, combatant commands and defense agencies. The company will help maintain a comprehensive evaluation of...
Mark Peters, a scientist and national energy laboratory executive, will assume the role of president and CEO of MITRE on Sept. 3. Peters, who currently serves as executive vice president for national laboratory management and operations at Battelle, will succeed the retiring Jason Providakes, a 37-year MITRE veteran and a three-time Wash100 awardee,...
DZYNE Technologies has acquired High Point Aerotechnologies for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of air defense technology platforms with the addition of counter-uncrewed autonomous system capabilities. High Point CEO Al White will join DZYNE as executive vice president of air defense technologies with oversight of the C-UAS business, the ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) a potential five-year, $998.8 million contract to develop, produce, sustain and retrofit Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio Systems terminals. The Department of Defense said Monday Naval Information Warfare System Command received three offers for the indef...
Electronics manufacturer Gresham Worldwide has agreed to merge with a subsidiary of Ault Disruptive Technologies (NYSE: ADRT), a special purpose acquisition company, to form a combined entity valued at approximately $83 million. Ault Disruptive will rebrand and operate as Gresham Worldwide and remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the t...
John Ustica, president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, won his second consecutive Wash100 Award this year, and Jim Garrettson, founder of the prize and CEO of Executive Mosaic, met with Ustica in person recently at SGT’s new headquarters to deliver the plaque. For the last 11 years, the Wash100 has annually decorate...
John Ofenloch, former operating partner at multi-strategy investment firm Satori Capital, has joined private equity firm AE Industrial Partners as president of the AE Shoals Manufacturing and Technology Center. In this capacity, Ofenloch will help accelerate AE Shoals’ occupancy, drive its campus expansion efforts and oversee the aerospace and...
