High Point Aerotechnologies has made a series of appointments to its leadership team following the full integration of Liteye Systems and Black Sage Technologies into its business operations. Black Sage CEO Al White, President Ann Wood and Chief Financial Officer Creighton Bowsher will retain their position titles at the Boise, Idaho-headquartered a...
The Association of the U.S. Army has welcomed Lisa Atherton, president and CEO of Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell business, as the latest addition to the organization’s board of directors. Atherton replaced Mitch Snyder, a Bell veteran who retired from the company in April and the AUSA board, the non-profit said Friday. The new board director...
CRDF Global, a nonprofit cybersecurity organization in Arlington, Virginia, has added GovCon industry executives Linda Gooden, Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, Alonzo Fulgham and Kenneth Myers to the board of directors. Gooden is a four-decade aerospace and defense industry veteran who previously served as executive vice president of information systems...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a pair of contract modifications worth $1.06 billion combined from the U.S. Army to produce air-to-ground and guided air-and-missile defense systems. The Bethesda, Maryland-headquartered defense contractor will manufacture and deliver Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles under a $556.1 million contract modif...
Digital transformation efforts are sweeping the U.S. Department of Defense as the military services race to attain the benefits a strong digital ecosystem can offer. Achieving this goal requires swift, coordinated efforts across all involved parties, and according to experts in the field, the department must place a heavy emphasis on its people...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 11 teams from the commercial and academic sectors to kick off the preliminary phase of the Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing program. DARPA said Thursday the organizations will work on foundational research to help develop a center for producing 3D heterogeneously integrated mic...
Each year, the federal government allocates substantial funding toward defense and security contracts. Government agencies, such as the Department of Defense and the US Armed Forces, tap into the expertise of multiple companies dedicated to developing and providing cutting-edge solutions for defense and warfare initiatives across various domains, su...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $282.6 million contract to modernize the Rolling Airframe Missile, a ship self-defense capability, for the U.S. Navy and three foreign military customers. The award from Naval Sea Systems Command covers design agent and engineering support to the MK 31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement Program, the Depa...
By Kim Koster, VP of Industry Marketing at Unanet In early 2013, during his second term in office, then-President Barack Obama signed the annual Defense Authorization Act, setting in motion a process to change the federal government’s small business contracting programs. That same year, the Defense Contract Audit Agency made small business a ...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will engineer software for the U.S. Air Force’s B-52H Stratofortress bomber platform under a sole-source award valued at $19 million over five years. The service is using fiscal 2023 operations and maintenance funds to cover the initial obligated amount of $3.65 million on the firm-fixed-pr...
