Brian Stites, formerly chief architect and senior manager of defense and commercial cyber resiliency strategy at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has joined Charlottesville, Virginia-based cyber defense software firm Mission Secure Inc. as vice president of business development. Stites œbrings strong control system and cyber expertise and will be a f...
James Winnefeld Jr., a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been elected to Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) board of directors. The 37-year Navy veteran previously led the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Northern Command, Raytheon said Wednesday. “Sandy brings signifi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2016 ” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) multiple contracts worth a total of $9 million to research and develop cybersecurity tools for the U.S. power grid system, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Raytheon said Monday it will develop early warning, adversary spoofing...
Kevin Benedict, former vice president of business development at SES Government Solutions, has joined Atlanta-based remote field communications and information technology provider DataPath as senior VP of U.S. government sales. DataPath said Tuesday Benedict will oversee efforts to expand the company’s work with U.S. defens...
Differing acquisition strategies among government services contractors and defense primes became a main discussion topic analysts raised in earnings calls Thursday morning with three GovCon companies that stated financial results. L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) hinted it could make more acquisitions this year with three...
Raytheon™s (NYSE: RTN) subsidiary has been awarded an estimated $218 million contract to update monitoring and sensor systems at the Woomera test range in the country’s southern region, Australian Associated Press reported Monday. Max Blenkin writes the 47, 177-square-mile military facility currently houses missil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2016 ” The Eutelsat 117 West B geostationary satellite, which was equipped with Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) GEO 5 payload built for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System, has been sent to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Raytheo...
A team comprising Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and DRS Technologies has been awarded a potential $154.4 million contract by the U.S. Army to help develop sensor technology for soldiers to detect targets through fog, Defense News reported Thursday. Jen Judson writes the companies will provide up to 96 3rd Generation FLIR B-Kits to the Arm...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 24, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has officially unveiled that its teaming arrangement with CAE (NYSE: CAE), Finmeccanica and Honeywell (NYSE: HON) will offer the T-100 trainer aircraft for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Raytheon said Monday T-100 is based on the Aermacchi M...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 19, 2016 ” David Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, is one of nine executives who have joined the board of advisers at the Center for a New American Security, GovCon Executive reported Friday. CNAS said Thursday the executives come from the defense...
