Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $41.2 million contract to produce and test an unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator for the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded project. The company will help DARPA build a full-scale long-endurance UUV system under the cost-plus-fixed-fee Manta Ray Phase 2 contract, the Depart...
Six companies have secured contracts worth potentially $40 million combined to help NASA’s Ames Research Center develop rotorcraft vertical lift technologies. Tasks under the five-year hybrid contracts are scheduled to commence on Tuesday and will continue through Dec. 20, 2026, the space agency said Wednesday. Contractors will provide resourc...
The State Department has approved two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $9.4 billion combined for frigate modernization support and four multimission surface combatant ships or future frigates that the government of Greece intends to procure. The FMS deal for four Hellenic Future Frigates is worth $6.9 billion and the transaction...
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...
Christie Thomas, vice president of contracts and pricing at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division since 2018, has been appointed to serve as corporate vice president of investor relations starting Jan. 1. She will succeed Dwayne Blake, who will retire at the start of 2022 after nine years in the job, the...
A new McAleese & Associates report says major defense prime contractors recorded a 4 percent to 6 percent increase in sector profit during the third quarter of 2021. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYS...
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...
Dan Lohrmann, former chief security officer for the state of Michigan, has been appointed field chief information security officer for the public sector business at digital services provider Presidio. In his new capacity, Lohrmann will work with clients in the state and local government and education sectors to help them develop infrastructure cyber...
Eight companies have received contract modifications worth $2.4 billion combined to provide prototype development, sustainment and production support services to the Department of the Air Force. Work will occur in New Jersey, California, Virginia, Utah, Pennsylvania and Iowa through Jan. 9, 2028, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The modific...
Amela Wilson, formerly a senior vice president and general manager at Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), has joined space services provider Nanoracks as CEO. Nanoracks said Thursday that Wilson succeeds Jeffrey Manber, who will continue to serve as the company’s board chairman and assume a new role as president of Voyager Space’s internatio...
