NASA and the Department of Energy have selected BWX Technologies, General Atomics and Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies to further develop their reactor design concepts for a nuclear thermal propulsion system that could be used in future deep space exploration missions. Each company will receive a potential 12-year, $5 million contract from DOE’s Id...
The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals to Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary and to the team of Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky business and Boeing (NYSE: BA) as it launches the competition for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program, Defense News reported Monday. The service will accept proposals through the fourth qu...
Alka Bhave, former corporate vice president of the performance excellence organization at Perspecta, has joined Riverside Research as chief of staff. Bhave was responsible for driving excellence across Perspecta’s business groups and functional areas from 2019 until its merger with Peraton in May 2021, according to her LinkedIn profile (click ...
Paul Engola, chief human resources officer of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been named executive vice president for national security space in a string of leadership changes that will take effect Monday, July 5. Leidos said Thursday the executive moves are part of the company’s efforts to optimize processes and advance talent development. Engola will c...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will move to the engineering and manufacturing development phase for the Long Range Standoff weapon system under a potential $2 billion contract with the U.S. Air Force. Raytheon’s missile and defense business will continue to mature production processes and demonstrate the manufacturing environment with a goal of...
Christopher Kubasik, most recently vice chair, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, has succeeded William Brown as CEO of the Melbourne, Florida-based aerospace and defense contractor as part of the L3 Technologies-Harris merger agreement announced in October 2018. William ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary a $735.9 million contract modification to increase the scope for low-rate initial production of lot 5 CH-53K helicopters. Sikorsky will produce nine CH-53Ks and perform logistical, programmatic and aircraft support work for the service branch, the Department of Defense...
Clinton Bickett, chief financial officer of global mission services business unit at PAE (Nasdaq: PAE), has been appointed by the board of directors as interim president of the business unit, effective July 6. The move comes after Charles Anderson, a retired U.S. Army major general, stepped down as president of global mission services Thursday, June...
Angela Heise, a more than two-decade information technology and cybersecurity veteran, has joined Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) worldwide public sector organization as corporate vice president for defense and intelligence. Julia Glidden, CVP for Microsoft’s worldwide public sector, announced Heise’s appointment in a LinkedIn post Friday. Heise pr...
The State Department has cleared a potential $2.43 billion foreign military sale of F-16 Block 70/72 fighter planes, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), to the Philippine government. This proposed FMS transaction covers the procurement of 10 F-16C jets, a pair of F-16D units and 15 F100-PW-229EEP or F110-GE-129D engines, the Defense Securit...
