The State Department has cleared Australia’s request to procure additional Sikorsky-built multirole naval helicopters along with related equipment and support services under a potential $985 million foreign military sales agreement. Australia intends to buy a dozen MH-60R Seahawk units as part of the country’s homeland defense and region...
Mitre executives Wilson Wang and Jay Schnitzer have assumed senior vice president roles at the McLean, Virginia-based nonprofit research company. Wang will continue to serve as chief financial officer with oversight of the company’s financial analytics, enterprise accounting, contracts and pricing, financial planning and analysis and internal audi...
John Hart, a more than 25-year GovCon industry veteran, has been named chief growth officer of Valiant Integrated Services in a string of leadership appointments at the Herndon, Virginia-based government services contractor. Hart previously worked at Peraton as vice president of business and capture for the company’s defense solutions business, Va...
Mitch Stevison, formerly a vice president at Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business, has been appointed executive VP and chief growth officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY). He brings more than 16 years of aerospace and defense industry experience to his new position and will be responsible for driving Mercury̵...
The National Defense Industry Association has named 16 new members of its board, which includes executives from technology and service providers to the government sector. Arnold Punaro, CEO of The Punaro Group, will continue to lead the association as its chairman and Michael Bayer, president and CEO of Dumbarton Strategies, will remain in his vice...
Crestview Aerospace, a portfolio company of American Industrial Partners, has acquired machine component Kemco Aerospace Manufacturing, a machine component manufacturer that supports aerospace and defense companies. KAL Capital Markets said Tuesday it served as the investment banking adviser to Kemco, which manufactures aluminum, titanium and other ...
Jeff Capponi, formerly a vice president at engineering company Senior PLC, has joined Cadence Aerospace to serve as senior VP of sales and marketing, and oversee brand awareness and develop promotional campaigns. Cadence, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, said Monday Capponi’s responsibilities are expected to support customer ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 27, 2021 — A Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) executive vice president has highlighted the need for the Department of Defense to have a unified, open network capable of providing the military with capabilities to enable data access, sharing and analysis and facilitate the battlefield decision-making process, ExecutiveBiz re...
Ryan McCarthy, formerly the secretary of the U.S. Army and previous Wash100 awardee, has joined the board of advisers at Arlington, Virginia-based cybersecurity and systems engineering services provider Millennium. The company said Thursday that McCarthy will apply his defense community experience to advise the company’s executive team on corp...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Fall 2021 5G Summit this past Thursday to bring the members of the government contracting (GovCon) community together with executives and personnel from across the federal government, military branches and intelligence community to explore the impact 5G integration has on the private and public sectors, as well...
