Karen McConnell, an aerospace engineering veteran, has joined Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Blue Canyon Technologies subsidiary as executive director of engineering. Blue Canyon said Monday that McConnell will be responsible for managing the performance, reliability and delivery schedules of its small satellite production line. Her additi...
The Space Development Agency has indicated its intent to acquire launch services for a planned network of low-Earth orbit military communications satellites through the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch program. A special notice posted Monday on SAM.gov states the agency could remove language pertaining to “contractor procure...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded three companies positions on a $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply various types of commercial metal products to U.S. military branches as part of DLA’s Metals Tailored Logistics Support program. DLA received six responses for the competitive acquisition program and s...
Tim Conway, executive vice president and public sector group president of NTT Data and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, was featured on Thursday in the latest Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz to talk about the company’s recent contract wins and IT modernization challenges, his sales and business strategies to drive company growth...
SpaceX has secured a $178 million contract to provide spacecraft launch services for a NASA mission to explore Europa, the smallest of Jupiter’s four large Galilean moons. NASA said Saturday it expects the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket to carry Europa Clipper in October 2024 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and bring the orbiter...
Udaya Chundury, former chief technologist of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has joined information technology services provider MetroStar as vice president of solutions architecture. The 25-year management and IT consulting veteran will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of business platforms that involve big data, analytics cloud and enterp...
Shareholders at Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT) voted to approve the cybersecurity and compliance company’s $12.3 billion sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Proofpoint said Friday both parties still expect to complete the transaction in the third quarter of 2021, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Gary Steele, ...
The U.S. Army has awarded five companies approximately $299.4 million in contracts to come up with digital concept designs for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program. BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Oshkosh Defense, American Rheinmetall Vehicles and Point Blank Enterprises will participate in the concept design phase to help inform...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has selected 18 technology companies to help design and demonstrate various approaches to implementing zero trust architectures. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NCCoE said Thursday it will work with the companies to design and field architectures based on the concepts ...
Planned Systems International has purchased Alexandria, Virginia-based technology integrator ProSphere Tech in a deal of an undisclosed sum that expands PSI’s health care information technology and cybersecurity offerings for the government sector. Founded in 2006, ProSphere works with federal customers to help them design systems, manage data...
