Matt Cole was appointed as Idemia‘s group executive vice president of its public security and identity business and will be responsible for managing the unit as it provides governments and organizations with identity technologies and expertise in biometrics and artificial intelligence. Pierre Barrial, president and CEO of Idemia, said in a sta...
Voyager Space has agreed to purchase a majority stake in Space Micro, a San Diego-based maker of satellite communications, electro-optical and digital systems, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to help the latter expand its technology portfolio in support of defense, civil and commercial customers. “The satellite constellation market stand...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have received other transaction agreements from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor design concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA said Friday prototypes that will emerge through th...
Carey Smith, president and CEO of Parsons and three-time Wash100 Award winner, sat with Peter Arment, senior research analyst for Baird, during Wednesday’s 2021 Government & Defense Conference to provide a look into Parsons’ growth strategies, national security efforts and the influence that emerging technologies are having on business and t...
Stephen Ambrose, chief climate scientist of Science Applications International Corp., will moderate a fireside chat session with Michael Berkowitz, a founding principal of Resilient Cities Catalyst, at GovConWire’s virtual forum on Thursday, Nov. 18. Ambrose was appointed to his current role in July and oversees an SAIC program aimed at helpin...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 9, 2021 — ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) seeks to broaden its digital engineering offerings with the $350 million acquisition of Gryphon Technologies, a Washington, D.C.-based systems engineering firm that provides a range of services to defense customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 1. “This acquisition maps dir...
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) has finished spinning off 81 percent of its equity ownership interest in VMware in a transaction aimed at establishing two independent companies that will continue to co-develop critical platforms under a commercial agreement. Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, said in a statement published Monday the...
Chris Greamo, former chief technology officer of Two Six Technologies, was named as president and CEO of Arctos, a Battle Investment Group-backed provider of full lifecycle system support to government and commercial customers. David Battle, board chair at Arctos and partner and founder at Battle, said in a statement published Monday Greamo will dri...
Roger Wells, formerly a vice president at Teledyne FLIR, has been appointed president of Mercury Systems‘ (Nasdaq: MRCY) microelectronics division. The 25-year aerospace and defense industry veteran will also join Mercury’s EVP ranks and his professional background encompasses business development, engineering and program management, the...
A General Electric (NYSE: GE) subsidiary has won a potential $1.58 billion contract to manufacture as many as 329 propulsion systems for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15EX fighter aircraft program. GE Edison Works will initially produce 29 lot 2 F110 GE-129 engines and USAF has options to order the next seven production lots under the...
