NASA has announced funding and collaboration opportunities for companies that want to help the agency mature technologies for use in future space missions in near-Earth and lunar destinations. The agency said Tuesday it will award as much as $200 million in Space Act Agreement funds through the Tipping Point initiative, which has supported 50 projec...
Gregg Burgess, former chief technology officer of the space systems business at Sierra Nevada Corp., been appointed vice president for space systems within General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems group. He will oversee GA-EMS’ portfolio of satellite systems and space technologies designed to work with laser-based radiofrequency and optical ...
Clara Conti, vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector as well as a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, recently took part in a Q&A session with GovCon Wire to discuss her background in the public sector market and how it led to her appointment with Red Hat. Conti also discussed why...
Finland’s defense ministry has formalized an agreement to procure 64 F-35A conventional takeoff and landing jets along with associated equipment and sustainment services from the U.S. government for approximately $9.4 billion, Reuters reported Friday. The signing of the procurement documents came one month after Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: ...
U.S. Special Operations Command can continue to order new manpack radio systems from L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) after SOCOM awarded a $297.2 million contract modification under the Next Generation Tactical Communications program. The award is for the delivery of AN/PRC-167 multichannel radios and support equipment to special operations forces...
Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services, has been selected to the 2022 edition of the Wash100, the seventh time he’s won the prestigious award in the nine-year history of Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of executives with staying power and influence in the government contracting arena. Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson noted T...
Shareholders at PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) approved Thursday the proposed combination with Amentum and both parties expect the transaction to close Tuesday, Feb. 15. Falls Church, Virginia-based PAE said Thursday holders of over 86 percent of its outstanding common stock were in favor of the merger and that all approvals needed to finalize the transaction ha...
NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), QinetiQ‘s space business and Space Flight Laboratory positions on the agency’s $6 billion procurement vehicle for spacecraft systems and related services through an on-ramp contracting procedure. The three awardees can vie for firm-fixed-price delivery orders from NASA centers and other feder...
Ruben Marchiani, former vice president of operations at NCI Information Systems‘ agile development sector, has been named vice president and market owner of national security at Excella. He will oversee business development, profit and loss management, growth strategy implementation and client service functions in his new position to help expa...
James Ebeler, former chief technology officer for IronBow Technologies‘ Department of Defense segment, has joined Three Wire Systems to serve as CTO. Ebeler will develop growth strategies for Three Wire’s software, hardware and security portfolios, and support technology insertion and continuous development of the company’s MyAdvis...
