TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2021 — General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business updated the mission system of its MQ-9 Reaper in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), ExecutiveBiz reported April 23. GA-ASI said April 22 the remotely piloted aircraft demonstrated its ability to collect intelligence data...
NEC Corporation of America has launched a new subsidiary that will offer biometric identity, machine learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence applications to the homeland security, defense, intelligence and law enforcement sectors. Benji Hutchinson, an industry veteran and a biometrics and AI leader, will lead NEC National Security Solu...
General Motors has appointed Steve duMont, a former executive at the intelligence and space segment of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), as president of its defense business arm, replacing Tim Herrick, who has been holding the post on an interim basis. duMont brings two decades of experience in working with big defense industry players, having serv...
Wen Masters, previously deputy director for research at Georgia Tech Research Institute, has been appointed as Mitre‘s vice president for cyber technologies, effective May 17. She will oversee Mitre’s cybersecurity strategy across a portfolio of programs including those that tackle national security and economics, the organization said T...
An Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) subsidiary has received initial delivery orders worth $146.8 million from the U.S. Army for new and upgraded trucks, as part of a three-year Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle IV contract extension. Oshkosh Defense said Monday it will build or modernize 353 heavy expanded mobility tactical trucks, palletized load systems vehicl...
Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) for Raytheon Technologies, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award during Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 dinner on Thursday by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award. This marks the second consecutive year that Azevedo has received the most pres...
Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) has closed its purchase of NIC (Nasdaq: EGOV) as part of efforts to expand the delivery of technology platforms and services to public sector stakeholders. NIC CEO Harry Herington will retire and the rest of the company’s leadership team will continue to oversee operations through NIC’s headquarters in Olathe, Kans...
NASA is seeking additional developers of satellite bus core systems and support services to participate in the second on-ramp solicitation process under the multiple-award $6 billion Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV program. The agency indicated its intent to expand the Rapid IV Catalog in a request for proposals notice posted Thursday on SAM .gov. B...
Max Peterson, vice president of international sales for worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has been appointed as VP of worldwide public sector unit at AWS, The Economic Times reported Saturday. He will succeed Teresa Carlson, a six-time Wash100 Award recipient who will join Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) as president and chief growth officer. Pe...
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) plans to spin off its 81 percent ownership of VMware (NYSE: VMW) as part of efforts to simplify capital structures, strengthen its position in technology infrastructure and client markets and expand into hybrid cloud, 5G, edge and other growth areas. Dell Technologies said Wednesday it expects the spinoff to be complet...
