Christopher Kubasik, most recently vice chair, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, has succeeded William Brown as CEO of the Melbourne, Florida-based aerospace and defense contractor as part of the L3 Technologies-Harris merger agreement announced in October 2018. William ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 30, 2021 — Shaun Bierweiler, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Riverbed Technology, said the company and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have more than 12 years of collaborative work focused on providing the public sector with offerings developed to “enable the peak performance and pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 30, 2021 — Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) will now be able to offer cyber readiness assessment services to defense companies following the former’s designation as a certified third-party assessment organization under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, ExecutiveBiz reported Ju...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2021 — CAES will collaborate with microelectronics company SkyWater (Nasdaq: SKYT) on expanding the latter’s on-shore semiconductor supply chain through the advancement of the design and manufacturing of radiation-hardened microelectronic components, ExecutiveBiz reported June 15. CAE will contribute its expertise...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2021 — Frank Sturek, former chief development officer at SkyePoint Decisions, has stepped up as the company’s president, responsible for driving business strategy and growth through development of enterprisewide and targeted capabilities and acquisition of cybersecurity- and information technology-related contract...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a $2.5 billion follow-on contract to provide information technology and communications network services to all facilities and centers run by NASA. The 10-year Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions contract, slated to take effect Sept. 1, covers support for agencywide cloud computing, data center and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 28, 2021 — Tim Rod, chief technology officer of Red River, said security and software-defined networking technologies came into play when agencies shifted to remote work environments due to the pandemic, ExecutiveBiz reported June 10. “I think [secure access service edge] is really taking a leading role in helping age...
Twelve companies have won spots on a potential seven-year, $68 million contract to help the U.S. Navy engineer networks and systems that support net-centric military operations. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform engineering and technical work on the service branch’s afloat, ashore and airborne networks through the multip...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 25, 2021 — Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has dubbed the recent demonstration of the capability of a company-built unmanned aircraft system to perform an air-to-air fuel transfer mission as a “history-making event” and attributed the test completion to its ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 24, 2021 — The Cluster 3 satellites of HawkEye 360 are being prepared for liftoff from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida to join the company’s Cluster 2 and the Cluster 1 Pathfinder satellites on orbit, ExecutiveBiz reported June 8. “The preparation and launch of additional next-generation clusters is all...
