Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the military service predicts its next manned fighter platform and associated systems to be ready by the end of the decade, The Drive reported Wednesday. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, told an audience at a recent Heritage Foundation event that engineering and manufacturing development efforts are ...
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...
John Roth, an aerospace industry veteran, has joined AAR Corp. as vice president of business development for the company’s government services business, according to his LinkedIn post. He most recently served as director of strategy and business development for the Future Programs at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and previously held a similar r...
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...
Demetrias Rodgers, former Commonwealth of Virginia technology executive, has joined Planet Technologies as chief technology officer for state and local government and education and commercial operations. He will provide strategic leadership as the company delivers technology platforms and services to defense industrial base, SLED and commercial clie...
Eight awardees will continue to provide professional management and technical services to support the U.S. Navy’s cyberspace operations under a $231.2 million contract option. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific exercised the first option period on a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with an $802 million cei...
Ramzi Musallam, CEO and managing partner of Veritas Capital, officially received his 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office in New York City. For the last nine years, the Wash100 Award has served as the standard fo...
Technology industry veterans Michael Miller, Jim Keenan, Anna Levine and Cindy Brent have joined Red Hat’s public sector team as the software provider focuses on helping government customers navigate their transition to hybrid and multicloud environments. Miller, formerly head of the federal team at Veeam Government Solutions, has been named vice ...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) have submitted a joint proposal to the Space Development Agency to compete for a contract to manage and operate a $1.8 billion constellation of Transport Layer Tranche 1 satellites in low-Earth orbit, SpaceNews reported Saturday. In January, SDA issued a solicitation for the “gr...
