Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) saw its engineering and support revenue increase 74 percent to $31.1 million during the fourth quarter of 2023, driven by a rise in U.S. government activity, and posted a record total revenue of $790.7 million for the full year, up 10 percent from the prior-year period. The McLean, Virginia-based satellite commu...
Perdigita, a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business and a joint venture of ANALYGENCE and Client Solution Architects, has secured a potential five-year, $80 million contract from the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command and 16th Air Force for cyber test and range engineering support services. The Air Force Cyber Operational Test Evaluat...
Ryan Higgins, formerly chief information security officer and deputy chief information officer at the Department of Commerce, has been named acting CIO and chief AI officer at DOC. The Federal CIO Council announced the move Wednesday on LinkedIn and said that Higgins has provided oversight of DOC’s enterprise cybersecurity functions and coordi...
Sigma Defense Systems, a Sagewind Capital company, has acquired defense information technology engineering provider Juno Technologies. The deal advances Sigma Defense’s strategy to expand its data analytics offerings to the Department of Defense and other customers, the company said Tuesday. As a result of the acquisition, Sigma Defense will h...
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) welcomed Jason Williamson, a Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) veteran, as senior vice president of growth for digital modernization and experience, he announced in a LinkedIn post on Saturday. His new responsibilities center on developing strategies and leading proposal and business development teams to shape the company’s gr...
Erin Kocourek, an aerospace and defense industry executive, has been appointed vice president of business development for the national security and innovative systems sector at CACI International. She announced her move to CACI in a LinkedIn post published Monday. Kocourek brings to the role her enterprise leadership experience, P&L expertise, k...
Scott Weliver has been named vice president and executive client manager for the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs at Dewberry. Weliver announced his new role at the architecture, engineering and construction services provider on LinkedIn. A civil engineering graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Weliver had earlier...
Nav Singh, formerly vice president for federal sales at Fornetix, has been promoted to senior VP for global sales at the Frederick, Maryland-based cybersecurity firm. In a LinkedIn post Friday, Fornetix said Singh will continue to grow the company’s core sales segment, including VaultCore, attribute-based access control as well as identity, cred...
Arvind Srinivasan, a technology industry veteran, has joined Maxar Technologies’ intelligence business as chief technology officer. In this capacity, he will oversee Maxar Intelligence’s technology strategy and help advance the development of digital and geospatial intelligence platforms, the company said Thursday. Dan Smoot, CEO of Maxar Intell...
Technological innovation is the top priority for most leaders in the defense landscape, but technology is just one of many components that need to come together to enable our tech superiority. So what are the advancements we need to make in the next five to ten years to actually achieve overmatch and thwart global competitors?...
