Dan Rice, vice president of 5G.MIL Programs at Lockheed Martin, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz published Monday. He talked about the company’s 5G.MIL initiative and how it is intended to provide resilient and secure “network-of-networks” connectivity to support U.S. military and allies. The Q&A...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received all regulatory clearances needed to advance its acquisition of Link 16, the tactical data link product line of Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT). L3Harris agreed to buy Viasat’s TDL portfolio for about $1.96 billion in October and now expects the transaction to close by Jan. 3. The Melbourne, Florida-based defens...
The U.S. Army has awarded spots on a $906.57 million order-dependent contract to 30 companies that will compete for tasks to assist government organizations responsible for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threat protection. Work is expected to run through Jan. 2, 2031, with contract locations and fund depending on each orde...
Dave Walsh, formerly a director at Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace subsidiary, has joined defense technology provider Parry Labs as vice president of engineering. He will be responsible for managing engineering, research and product development efforts in his new role, Parry Labs said Monday. In his most recent capac...
Jason Aiken, chief financial officer of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been appointed to serve in the additional role of executive vice president of the company’s technologies segment. His leadership duties will expand at the start of 2023 and he will succeed Chris Marzilli, who has led the segment since 2019 and will retire after...
Carey Smith, chair, president and CEO of Parsons (NYSE: PSN), and Zachary Parker, president, CEO and board chair at DLH (Nasdaq: DLHC), will continue to serve for another year as chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Professional Services Council’s board of directors. John Heller, president and CEO of Amentum, will serve a one-year term...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has agreed to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) for approximately $4.7 billion in cash, or $58 per share, in a transaction that will allow the aerospace and defense contractor to further advance innovation and continue to deliver missile defense systems, hypersonics and other capabilities to the Department of ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded eight companies positions on a potential 10-year, $4.1 billion follow-on contract to provide production units, software, laboratory equipment, spares and system components for surface, shore and submarine platforms in support of the service branch’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program. CANES is th...
Aeyon will provide NASA with financial management consulting services in support of financial operation consolidation efforts at seven of its ten centers during a contracting period of up to eight years. Work is under a potential $516.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract NASA awarded to MM Technologies, a joint venture between ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will manufacture 111 more Tomahawk missile systems in Block V configuration for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Army under a $171.2 million contract modification. The Navy exercised an option under the first multi-service, full-rate production contract for the Tactical Tomahawk weapon, according to a Department of D...
