The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies potential six-year contracts to provide engineering support services for the service’s Network Management Reference Implementation Laboratory. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific received five offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts that have a t...
Herndon, Va.-based Mission Essential has appointed industry veteran Al Pisani as president, the company announced earlier this month. œAl is the keystone in our strategy for the next phase of Mission Essential, said Chairman Gregory K. Miller. œHis personal mission is to update the company™s portfolio of services and operational appro...
Leigh Palmer, formerly senior vice president of the national security division at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has succeeded Ken Deutsch as SVP of defense portfolio within the same unit, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. Palmer led CSRA‘s intelligence group before its acquisition by General...
The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded spots on a potential 10-year, $500 million contract to eight companies and one nonprofit organization to support missions of DIA’s science and technology directorate. Contractors will vie for research, development, engineering and technical task orders through the multiple-award, indefinite-deli...
Michael Knowles, former vice president and general manager of the air ranges business unit within Cubic™s (NYSE: CUB) global defense segment, has been named corporate senior VP and president of the segment in a move that will take effect Oct. 1. Knowles will succeed Dave Buss, a corporate SVP who will assume the role of senior...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a potential $2.93 billion contract to design and build three missile warning satellites that would succeed the service’s current Space Based Infrared System. Lockheed’s space systems business will also analyze requirements, procure critical path flig...
NASA has chosen 13 companies to explore future opportunities for non-governmental entities to conduct U.S. manned spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and other low-Earth orbit destinations. The space agency said Thursday studies will delve into conceptualization of business plans that will discuss the feasibility of using fr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 3, 2018 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has completed its clean-room work to prepare NASA‘s Parker Solar Probe for launch after mating the spacecraft to Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) Star 48BV rocket motor and encasing it within its fairing, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursd...
Bradford Powell, a 10-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed vice president and general manager of the command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance business at Cubic‘s (NYSE: CUB) mission solutions segment. He will lead the implementation of C2ISR programs and business growth strategy in his...
Sally Sullivan, a former CSRA executive, has joined Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) as vice president of U.S. business development. Sullivan previously served as executive VP for the homeland security group at CSRA, which is now part of General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) information technology business after the latter completed its purchase in April, Rayt...
