The State Department has approved a proposed $134 million foreign military sales agreement for follow-on technical support to Japan’s destroyer ships that carry the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Aegis Combat System. A Defense Security Cooperation Agency notice posted Wednesday says the Japanese government asked to procure Aegis Class Destr...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary will continue to engineer operational strategic and attack submarines for the U.S. Navy under a $225.1 million contract modification. Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate $3.1 million at the time of award and expects GDEB to complete services in September 2023, the Department of Defense ...
Marshall Smith, former deputy associate administrator for systems engineering and integration within a NASA directorate, has joined Voyager Space Holdings subsidiary Nanoracks to serve as senior vice president of commercial space stations. Voyager said Monday Smith will oversee Nanoracks’ commercial space services from a new Huntsville, Alabam...
American Systems has won a potential five-year, $165.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide software engineering and technical support services for naval air programs. The company will deliver such services to the Naval Air Systems Command’s software engineering department in support of various aircraft and related subsystems, the Depart...
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...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 27, 2021 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) will provide engineering support for aircraft pilot training and electronic systems at the U.S. Navy under two recompeted task orders worth more than $120 million combined, ExecutiveBiz reported July 19. “These recompetes speak to KBR’s commitment and capability to prepare and protect ...
The Senate has confirmed Heidi Shyu‘s nomination to become the undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering, a role first held by Michael Griffin since the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act elevated it at undersecretary level. As USD(R&E), Shyu will be responsible for setting the strategy for D...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a $90.2 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to perform tests and related activities to support the transition of a guidance electronic unit to production as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. Under the award, Raytheon Missiles...
Ranil Dassanayaka, vice president of architecture and engineering for government, education and health care sector at VMware (NYSE: VMW), said government agencies should adopt a more holistic approach to managing multiple cloud environments to enhance operational efficiency, control costs, accelerate service delivery and improve security. “Managem...
Ronda Sanborn, former director of program operations at System High Corp., has been promoted as vice president of special programs at the Chantilly Virginia-based protection and security engineering services provider. She will oversee System High’s special access program portfolio and brings more than three decades of public and private sector...
