TTM Technologies (Nasdaq: TTMI) has finalized its $330 million cash acquisition of Telephonics from Griffon (NYSE: GFF) and expects the transaction to build up its position in radar systems and expand its growth opportunities and strategic capabilities in the aerospace and defense market. Santa Ana, California-based printed circuit board maker TTM f...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has added GovCon industry veterans Howard Lance and Bill Ballhaus to its board of directors as part of cooperation agreements the defense and aerospace technology provider reached with two investors Mercury said Friday the agreements with Jana Partners and Starboard Value called for the temporary expansion of its board...
Andrew Caso, formerly a finance executive at Pratt & Whitney, has joined Collins Aerospace as vice president of financial planning and analysis, according to his post on LinkedIn. He served as Pratt & Whitney’s VP of finance for more than four years and also held the chief financial officer role focused on transformation and strategy...
James Myers, a retired U.S. Army colonel, has joined Applied Research Associates as vice president of program innovation and growth. In this capacity, he will seek defense-related opportunities and programs to enable ARA to deliver novel platforms for national security applications, the company said Tuesday. Myers “is the right person at the right...
Stephen Zhang, a nearly 13-year veteran of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and United Technologies Corp., has joined Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) to serve as the launch services provider’s first vice president of investor relations. He will manage Virgin Orbit’s overall investor relations functions and advise the leadership team on matters ...
John Steckel, vice president of corporate development at American Systems, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Monday. He discussed his responsibilities and the efforts that align with the company’s organic and inorganic growth initiatives. The Q&A also tackled American Systems’ culture as well as the com...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Westinghouse and IX are set to receive 12-month, $5 million contracts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to develop conceptual designs of a 40-kilowatt class fission power system for a NASA-funded lunar technology demonstration initiative. NASA said Tuesday it will collect data from industry ...
Mike Sullivan, a vice president with Dell Financial Services, said adopting an on-demand technology offering could help government agencies manage digital transformation-related costs while enabling them to transition to a hybrid, multicloud environment. Sullivan wrote that Dell Technologies has provided agencies options in order for them to “achi...
The General Services Administration has announced the selection of 61 small businesses as third and final cohort of awardees on the potential $50 billion 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide contract for information technology services. GSA said Friday the award of the 8(a) STARS III GWAC’s third cohort ...
Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, opened Wednesday’s Second Annual Army IT and Digital Transformation Forum, with an engaging and informative keynote address covering the challenges in talent recruitment and the immediate need for digital transformation efforts to drive the Army toward its 2030 modernization and strategic objec...
