Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense, met with members of the Defense Business Board and informed them about the initiatives to strengthen the defense industrial base’s resiliency, according to a DOD meeting readout released Thursday. During DBB’s first quarterly meeting for fiscal year 2023, the two-time Wash100...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, spoke with leaders of eight large primes to discuss strategic priorities for the Pentagon and business challenges facing the industry. DOD said Tuesday executives at BAE Systems, Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), HII (NYSE: HII), L3Harris ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force to equip two additional E-11A modified Bombardier aircraft with an airborne communications relay and gateway system. The award was made under a $3.6 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering the development, testing, integration and sustainment of the...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) saw its sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2022 jump 3 percent to $9 billion, up from $8.7 billion during the prior-year period, and attributed the growth to improving trends in labor availability and strong demand for the company’s capabilities. The Falls Church, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor said...
Wood Parker, former president of the Northrop Grumman IT sector’s Federal Enterprise Solutions business unit, was chosen in 2005 as the Technology Good Scout Award recipient from the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Parker joined the private sector after two decades of service in the U.S. Navy. His industry career...
Bill Bodie, a more-than-three-decade defense and civil engineering industry veteran, has been appointed senior director of development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, GovCon Wire has learned. Bodie most recently served as development director at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and was a visiting fellow at th...
A team of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $985.3 million contract to build and demonstrate an air-launched, scramjet-powered weapon system designed to operate at a speed greater than Mach 5. The service branch is obligating $100 million for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile procurement effor...
Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of the defense systems sector at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), intends to retire on Jan. 13, 2023, after a decadelong career at the company. Northrop said Thursday its board of directors chose Roshan Roeder, VP and general manager of the airborne multifunction sensors division under the mission ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has agreed to share data with the U.S. Air Force related to the ongoing development of the B-21 Raider Long Range Strike Bomber and its virtual model. Under a signed agreement, USAF will have access to common data environments, including a cloud-based platform that houses a suite of ground systems data...
Mick Jaggers, a nearly 15-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined CAES to serve as vice president of program management at the Arlington, Virginia-headquartered aerospace and defense contractor. In a LinkedIn post Tuesday, he shared his transition from serving as a Northrop VP to joining the CAES team and organization. Jaggers worke...
