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...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Kathy Warden, chair, CEO and president of Northrop Grumman, as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner for aligning the company’s portfolio of technology offerings to priorities of defense customers and advancing strategic growth. This year marks the 10th iteration of Executive Mosaic’s annual list of the top 100...
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...
Nicki Scolaro Bland, former contract management professional at Leonardo DRS and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), was appointed as vice president of contracts administration at Peraton, according to a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. Bland most recently served as senior director of contracts and compliance at Leonardo’s U.S. subsidiary, where she led effort...
The State Department has approved Japan’s request to procure up to five Northrop Grumman-made (NYSE: NOC) E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft, related equipment and services from the U.S. government under a foreign military sales agreement worth approximately $1.4 billion. Northrop will serve as the prime contractor i...
Axient CEO Randy Cash has promoted company executives Jay Kovacs, Patience Samson and Port Dubon to C-level positions. Kovacs, most recently senior vice president of growth strategies, will now serve as chief innovation officer and oversee Axient’s innovation and growth strategy and technical capability expansion efforts in data analytics and digi...
Robert Kincade, a 10-year veteran of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has joined information and engineering services provider Colsa as chief growth officer. The three-decade industry veteran announced his new role at Colsa in a LinkedIn post Thursday and will also hold the title of executive vice president. He previously served as a principal in...
GovCon industry veteran Christine Fox Harbison will assume the role of executive vice president and chief growth officer at Mercury Systems on March 6. She will report directly to Mercury CEO Mark Aslett as she oversees the execution of the company’s growth strategy, builds up technology partnerships and leads strategic account management and capt...
Five companies have secured other transaction agreements ranging from $1 million to $25 million to develop prototypes of the U.S. Army’s Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Increment 2. The OTA awards are part of an industry competition seeking a new UAS platform for brigade combat teams to perform reconnaissance and surveillance work eve...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to refine their proposed concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor under modifications to their other transaction prototype agreements with the Missile Defense Agency. The companies will further develop their interceptor concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile de...
