ExecutiveBiz featured Kerron Duncan, director of technology for the chief information office with Northrop Grumman, in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He talked about his over two decades of career at Northrop and the work his team is responsible for to meet customers’ mission requirements. The Q&A also tackled ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received contract modifications worth at least $41 million each from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor designs for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA exercised options on other transaction agreements awarded in Nove...
In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Chris McGlade, vice president for quality and operational excellence at Northrop Grumman‘s defense system sector, to talk about the most significant capabilities for armed forces to provide protection on the modern battlefield. She also discussed the company’s commitment ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $40.6 million order to conduct a full-scale fatigue test and an effect-of-defect evaluation on the U.S. Navy’s Triton MQ-4C unmanned aircraft system. The company will additionally help the service branch examine system fatigue and damage tolerance of the autonomously operated system through post-test...
Rosalind Kadasi, chief financial officer of Amyx, is set to retire from her position on July 1 after more than five years in the job. Rosalind Kadasi Amyx said Wednesday it appointed Ryan Marsden, who most recently served as CFO at Integral Consulting Services, to succeed Kadasi as finance chief effective June 13. William Schaefer,...
David Harrison, a more than 15-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined QinetiQ’s U.S. arm as vice president of business operations. He will be responsible for overseeing QinetiQ US‘ functional business operations to create operational excellence and business value, the company said Friday. Shawn Purvis, president and CEO...
Brandi Smith, a two-decade shipbuilding industry veteran, has been promoted to vice president of the Columbia-class program at HII’s (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division. Smith, who serves as construction program director for the Columbia-class submarine, will assume her new position on June 1 and succeed Charles Southall, who will retir...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has promoted 13-year company veteran Lucas Firliet to director of information technology within its defense systems business sector. The former automation and controls engineering manager wrote in a LinkedIn post that he will support the segment’s digital transformation efforts in his new position. Firliet started ...
James Fraley, former senior director of McAfee Enterprise Solutions, has been appointed senior vice president and chief scientist at Reston Virginia-based information technology services provider Pragmatics. The two-decade cybersecurity professional will lead Pragmatics’ efforts to develop product and service offerings and expand its cus...
Kenneth “Kenny” Robinson, a more than 14-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been promoted to vice president and chief diversity officer. His promotion is effective May 31 and he will hold the additional title of president at Northrop’s philanthropic organization, the company said Tuesday. Robinson will succeed Sandra Evers-M...
