Robert Conrad, a space industry executive, has been elevated to president of Kepler Communications US, a subsidiary of Kepler Communications. The Wilmington, Delaware-based company said Tuesday Conrad’s promotion came after serving as vice president of business development for almost two years. He will now oversee the expansion...
Michael Smith, a seasoned executive specializing in technical program leadership and direction, has been elevated to chief information officer at V2X, according to the executive’s LinkedIn post Sunday. Smith spearheads V2X’s IT systems and operations worldwide while managing its cyber and information security and business applicati...
The Naval Special Warfare Command, a component of the U.S. Special Operations Command, has issued a solicitation for the Maritime Special Operations Forces Support 2.0 contract. MSOFS 2.0 Requirements The purpose of MSOFS 2.0 is to support the day-to-day operations of NSW by providing a variety of services, including logistics, equipment, management...
Newly formed aerospace manufacturing holding company Velocity One has agreed to merge with EMCORE, a provider of inertial navigation solutions to the aerospace and defense industry. EMCORE said Friday the cash transaction with a purchase price of $3.10 per share was cleared by its board of directors and will see the company become a wholly...
The HII board of directors has elected Kari Wilkinson as president of Newport News Shipbuilding, or NNS, the largest company division overseeing over 26,000 shipbuilders who design, build and maintain nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. The shipbuilder said Wednesday Wilkinson, who has served as president of HII’s Ingalls Shipbui...
The U.S. Space Force has awarded 12 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion contract to provide advisory and assistance services for Space Systems Command. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the Hemisphere program is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that seeks to support SSC’s Space Doma...
The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services intends to launch a competition for a follow-on governmentwide acquisition contract for enterprise IT support services. According to a notice published Tuesday on the Acquisition Planning Forecast System, the recompete Enterprise Infrastructure Operations and Support S...
Mitch Icard, former vice president of space and advanced technologies at Teledyne Brown Engineering, has joined Spectral Energies as chief operating officer. The executive announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post Monday. Icard has a combined 15 years at Teledyne. He initially worked as director of finance and administration for Teledyne Energy S...
The U.S. Navy has started soliciting offers for a potential five-year, $243.9 million contract to conduct research and build tactical electronic warfare and combat systems. According to a solicitation published Friday, the Naval Research Laboratory will accept proposals for the Tactical Combat and Electronic Warfare Systems Research and Development ...
BWX Technologies has appointed Howard Markle, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, as vice president and general manager of the company’s Nuclear Operations Group-Lynchburg facility. BWXT said Friday Markle succeeds Jim Bittner, who transitioned to the role of operations and programs optimization for the company’s technical services group s...
