Six companies have secured contracts worth potentially $40 million combined to help NASA’s Ames Research Center develop rotorcraft vertical lift technologies. Tasks under the five-year hybrid contracts are scheduled to commence on Tuesday and will continue through Dec. 20, 2026, the space agency said Wednesday. Contractors will provide resourc...
Naval Air Systems Command awarded Pratt and Whitney‘s military engines business a $145.3 million contract modification to procure depot support equipment and supplies for the F-35 program. NAVAIR exercised options on a previously awarded contract to the Raytheon Technologies subsidiary supporting fighter aircraft sustainment work for both dome...
The State Department has approved two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $9.4 billion combined for frigate modernization support and four multimission surface combatant ships or future frigates that the government of Greece intends to procure. The FMS deal for four Hellenic Future Frigates is worth $6.9 billion and the transaction...
Matthew Bromberg, most recently president of the military engines business at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary, has been appointed to serve as corporate vice president of global operations at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). He will assume his new position on Feb. 16 and will oversee Northrop’s programs, quality, su...
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2022. He will also serve on the association’s executive committee along with Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile, who is set...
Jill Albertelli, formerly the senior vice president of transformation and strategy at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business, has been named president of the subsidiary’s military engines organization. She succeeds Matthew Bromberg, who has held the role since 2017 and led F135 engine program implementation efforts f...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business will continue to maintain military fighter aircraft engines for domestic and foreign military sales customers under a $447.6 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. The Department of Defense said Tuesday that contract work involves recurring sustainment effor...
Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
A new McAleese & Associates report says major defense prime contractors recorded a 4 percent to 6 percent increase in sector profit during the third quarter of 2021. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYS...
Eight companies have received contract modifications worth $2.4 billion combined to provide prototype development, sustainment and production support services to the Department of the Air Force. Work will occur in New Jersey, California, Virginia, Utah, Pennsylvania and Iowa through Jan. 9, 2028, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The modific...
