Philip Perconti, former top science and technology executive within the U.S. Army, has joined Leonardo DRS as chief technology officer. He will oversee the Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor’s corporate strategy for research and development, advance innovation and broaden partnerships to facilitate the development of integrated techn...
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2022. He will also serve on the association’s executive committee along with Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile, who is set...
Jill Albertelli, formerly the senior vice president of transformation and strategy at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business, has been named president of the subsidiary’s military engines organization. She succeeds Matthew Bromberg, who has held the role since 2017 and led F135 engine program implementation efforts f...
Winston Beauchamp and Jay Bonci, respectively the deputy chief information officer and chief technology officer at the Department of the Air Force, will deliver keynote speeches at a Dec. 15 virtual forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss IT programs at the Air Force and Space Force. The “AF IT Modernization and Digital...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to help the U.S. Navy modernize sensor hardware and software for Super Hornet and Growler military aircraft platforms under a $71.4 million contract modification. The award includes work to update sensor instrumentation and interfaces related to the anti-surface warfare technical baseline of F/A-18 and...
PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) and Amentum are expected to carry on with their planned merger after the Falls Church, Virginia-based defense and government services contractor did not secure an alternative acquisition offer during the go-shop period that expired Monday. Germantown, Maryland-based Amentum agreed to buy PAE in an all-cash deal worth approximately ...
Joey Hoskins, most recently the director of business development at BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), has been elevated to a vice president position. He succeeds Mark Barth, who was appointed business manager for a BWXT-led joint venture that won the Department of Energy’s $21 billion Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract in ...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will continue to provide a data management and decision support platform to Space Systems Command under a $43 million contract extension. The company said Thursday its Warp Core technology supports situational awareness and decision-making efforts at U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Comm...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will develop a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support research and development work on renewable power. The supercomputer called Kestrel will support energy programs related to security, storage, community transitions, energy justice, systems integrati...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a $273.4 million contract modification to expand its support services for a new U.S. Navy radar system being produced to help the military service detect adversarial aircraft and missile threats. The company will provide laboratory generator support for the Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar and ...
