Alberto Conti, former director of new business and innovation solutions at Ball Aerospace‘s civil space business, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the unit. The promotion expands Conti’s previous responsibilities to include strategic planning with sector customers and stakeholders over mission priorities and nex...
Tom Gentile, president and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, and Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, have been elected to serve as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2023. Eric Fanning, a previous Wash100 awardee, will continu...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a $156.7 million task order to update the U.S. Army’s fleet of UH-60V Black Hawk helicopters. The company said Monday it will work with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to come up with recommendations and technical platforms for the utility helicopter project office at the Army’s program executive office aviation and...
Space Systems Command has released a new request for proposals for the Sounding Rocket Program-4 contract to expand the pool of vendors that could provide suborbital launch support for payloads and flight hardware and perform technical and concept analyses to facilitate the launch of space assets in support of research and development programs. Inte...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket early Wednesday in the start of the agency’s program to land humans again on the lunar surface. The uncrewed Orion separated from the SLS upper stage at a speed of 22,600 mph two hours after liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in...
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 ...
The Space Development Agency is seeking information on industry sources that could provide a position, navigation and timing service payload for the second tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA intends to proliferate a low cost L-band PNT service payload on the Tranche 2 Transport Layer, according to a request f...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) posted $164 million in net income and diluted earnings per share of $1.17 in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 and saw its revenue rise 4 percent to $3.6 billion for that period. The company attributed the sales growth to increased deployments on the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program, ramp-up...
FireFly Aerospace, a portfolio company of private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, is aiming to raise $300 million in a new funding round by the end of the year. Bill Weber, CEO of FireFly, said the company would use the new capital to advance a medium-lift spacecraft through a development partnership with Northrop Grumman (NYSE:...
