The U.S. Army has selected five companies to receive funds that will support artificial intelligence and robotic technology prototyping projects under the service branch’s other transaction agreement with the National Advanced Mobility Consortium, Inside Defense reported Thursday. Contractors will prototype AI and robotic systems intended to b...
Momentus has appointed former executives at the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to serve on the board of directors for the publicly traded space infrastructure services company that will result from Momentus’ planned merger with Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SRAC). Kimb...
Momentus has appointed John Rood, former undersecretary of the Department of Defense for policy, to serve as its CEO starting Aug. 1, ahead of its planned merger with Stable Road Acquisition Corp. Rood will take over from Dawn Harms, who will return to her duties as chief revenue officer after temporarily holding the top executive...
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...
