The U.S. Air Force has added Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) and Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary as awardees on a $400 million contract for aerospace system research and development services. Fifteen bids were submitted to the Air Force Research Laboratory for the Advanced Aerospace Systems Technolo...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have joined the list of awardees on a U.S. Air Force research and development contract worth up to $400 million over seven years, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Five companies now hold spots on the Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research program. General Atomics, Lockheed...
Tim Winter, former vice president of global accounts and international defense at ST Engineering‘s iDirect subsidiary, has been appointed interim president of iDirect Government. The U.S. Navy veteran replaces John Ratigan, who has led iDirectGov for two decades and helped the satellite communications provider grow its government business, the...
Photo Contributor: Tsuguliev/Shutterstock The defense industry is one of the world’s largest and most competitive industries. The U.S. federal government agencies under the Department of Defense are actively procuring defense products and upgrading existing systems with the latest technology to strengthen the nation’s military fo...
Amy Hopkins, a defense and intelligence industry veteran, has been appointed vice president and general manager for national security space within Peraton‘s space and intelligence sector. “Excited to lead this team and looking forward to working with my space and national security colleagues across the community,” Hopkins wrote in ...
GovCon industry veterans Katie Selbe, Sarah Otchet and John Fant have joined the executive leadership team of Eqlipse Technologies, a newly formed platform of Arlington Capital Partners. The appointments come one week after ACP announced the formation of Eqlipse to pursue national security business opportunities in cyber, signals intelligence engine...
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...
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...
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...
