By Mick Fox Chief Operating Officer, TechnoMile I began my career by serving in the U.S. Air Force and this cultivated what has become a lifelong passion for aviation. I love to fly and enjoy time up in a Cirrus SR22 as often as possible. My fellow aviators know that the flight instruments in the...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary will engineer H-53 heavy-lift transport helicopters for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and foreign military sales customers as part of a five-year, $120 million contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award includes logistics and modification installation support for the H-53 platfor...
Joan Bishop, a three-decade government contracting industry leader, has assumed a senior vice president role at HighPoint Digital. She will lead the execution of the company’s strategy and team focused on delivering services to customers in the federal health sector, HighPoint said Tuesday. Bishop joined HighPoint in 2021 and has helped expand the...
Steve Adlich, former president of Tyonek Native Corp.’s aviation services and manufacturing divisions for the past seven years, has been appointed chief strategy officer at Edge Autonomy. He will oversee plans and initiatives to advance Edge Autonomy’s global manufacturing and unmanned aerial system technology businesses, the company sai...
Doug Jones, a senior vice president and defense group chief technology officer of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) for the past three years, has been promoted to serve as the company’s deputy CTO. In his new capacity, Jones will lead the company’s research and development investments, technology partnerships, technical talent growth and key strategic...
The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $75 million firm-fixed-price contract to produce and deliver prototypes of high-energy laser weapon systems for the service branch. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Virginia received seven offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-q...
Twelve companies and two academic organizations received a total of $50 million in NASA’s latest round of funding for the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project. The awardees are members of NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium, which will match the funds they received, the space agency said Friday. HiCAM’s production con...
For the fourth year in a row, Executive Mosaic has the honor of recognizing John Mengucci, CEO of CACI International, with the Wash100 Award. This year Mengucci added to an already robust legacy by ushering his company toward new projects tackling complex technology challenges for the U.S. defense community and breaking ground with stellar quarte...
Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, received his 2023 Wash100 Award in Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson’s recent visit to GDMS offices. During the meeting, Garrettson presented Brady with his fourth consecutive Wash100 Award, which he earned this year for his commitment to technological innovation and his continued lea...
Sikorsky, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), will manufacture and deliver additional UH-60M Black Hawk aircraft to the U.S. Army under a $164.3 million contract modification. The latest helicopter order was an exercised option under a previously awarded contract and production will take place at the builder’s facility in Stratford, C...
