A partnership between Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTN) will manufacture man-portable, anti-tank guided munition systems for domestic and international defense customers under a U.S. Army contract worth potentially $7.2 billion. The award to Javelin Joint Venture has a base value of $1.02 billion and covers weapon pro...
By Mark Townsend, Vice President of Professional Services at Invicti Security With access to some of the world’s most sensitive and secure data and systems, the U.S. Department of Defense is a natural candidate to lead innovation on zero trust security. To that end, the department has set an ambitious five-year goal to deploy zero...
ITT (NYSE: ITT) has closed its $80 million acquisition of Micro-Mode Products, a manufacturer of radio frequency connector technology for satellite, radar and defense systems. Micro-Mode, which generated approximately $26 million in sales in 2022, will operate as part of ITT’s North American connectors business within its connect and control t...
Arnold Nowinski, former executive director of the launch and safety business at Axient, has been elevated to a vice president role within the same unit under Axient’s national security space segment. He will lead a team of engineers and scientists that conducts new entrant certification for launch platforms, verifies system safety at U.S. Spac...
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies business will support the U.S. Navy’s shore-based training systems under a potential five-year, $242 million task order. The project will include applying a DevSecOps model to the hardware and software product development life cycle in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Da...
Space is at its largest inflection point in decades, and as commercial space activity continues to rise, United States government leaders are taking a page from industry’s book on how to drive more rapid innovation, especially in the face of increasing global competition. While technology and acquisition processes are typically at the center of th...
John Bergeron, a 15-year veteran of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has joined Teledyne Technologies‘ (NYSE: TDY) FLIR Defense subsidiary as vice president of global services for surveillance. He will oversee the management and growth of a business organization that provides imaging sensor support to the military and public safety sectors, ...
Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business and a six-time recipient of the Wash100 award, is taking pride in the positive impact of the unit’s mental health awareness campaign, “How are you, really?” Gilliland shared her perspective on the initiative in a Virginia 500 ...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) posted $4.5 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2023, up 9 percent from the prior-year period, driven by sales growth across its three business segments. The company said Thursday profit for the quarter was $339 million, compared to the $475 million a year ago and earnings were $1.76 per...
Tom McCabe, an industry veteran with more than three decades of legal and operations management experience, has been appointed chief operating officer and general counsel at digital engineering company Istari, GovCon Wire has learned. McCabe comes to Istari from BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), where he helped grow earnings over 50 percent in five yea...
