Mark Santamaria, formerly senior vice president and chief financial officer at CAES, has assumed the CFO role at Austal‘s shipbuilding arm in the U.S. He has three decades of experience in finance and executive leadership, including more than 20 years at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), where he was divisional CFO, Austal USA said Thursday. “We...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index and Wall Street ended the week strong due to a broad market rally. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, edged 0.21% higher Friday to $4,871.91, suitable for a 1.94% week-on-week gain. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 2.02% for a weekly gain of 4.2%. Alphabet (Nasdaq: G...
Scott Wood, formerly vice president of programs at Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS), has been named VP of defense programs at T-Rex Solutions, a provider of information technology modernization services to government agencies. He will manage the company’s growth strategy and oversee the delivery of IT products and services to the Department of Defen...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index advanced 1.08% before the weekend and averted a third consecutive losing week. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, ended at $4,786.97 for a 0.13% week-on-week gain. Wall Street concluded the week with a tech sell-off, and only the Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.01%) ...
Darrell Graddy, formerly chief operating officer of Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) U.K. business arm, has been appointed chief strategy officer at Boston Government Services. He brings to the role nearly four decades of government contracting industry experience in program management, business development, capture strategy, strategy development and stra...
As a program manager and engineer in the U.S. Air Force, Rocky Thurston gained the skills he needed to transition smoothly into government contracting. His first work in the field was as a program manager for an intelligence community contract at Booz Allen Hamilton, after which point he took on more assignments and learned and...
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Himanshu Panchasara, a nearly decade-long veteran at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has joined Maximus (NYSE: MMS) to serve as managing director and vice president of federal IT solutions, he announced via LinkedIn. He brings to Maximus over 20 years of information technology experience, most recently serving as ...
Open radio access networks, or Open RAN, is a new approach to RANs that separates traditionally integrated hardware and software and upholds a set of specific standards to enable multiple vendors to provide different components under one cloud service provider’s network. The Department of Defense has made 5G a top priority, and it has taken notic...
NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab positions on a potential $4.6 billion contract to develop a lunar terrain vehicle for the space agency’s Artemis moon exploration program. The agency said Wednesday it plans to procure the LTV as a service from industry through the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services program, a mil...
