Abdul Omar, a more than 20-year financial management professional, has joined PlanetRisk as chief financial officer of the McLean, Virginia-based data visualization and analytics firm. PlanetRisk said Thursday that Omar will oversee accounting, finance and merger-and-acquisition functions in his new position as the company looks to grow it...
Gen. Carlton “Dewey” Everhart II, USAF, commander of the US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, discusses his priorities, his command’s pilot shortage, modernization needs and modifying transport and tanker planes to serve as “smart” communications and intel nodes with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Mura...
Gen. Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, USAF, commander of the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command, in his final interview before retiring from nearly 40 years on active duty discusses the future of air warfare, networked operations, light attack planes, F-35A Lighting II fighters and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradi...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed down for the day to 92.798 off -0.123%, contrary to the major markets which all closed slightly up. Investors wait for the February official U.S. jobs data due to release tomorrow. GovCon Index decliners outpaced advancers 19 to 11 as Orbital ATK (NYSE:OA) leds gainers for the second day in a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 9, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has reached a milestone for systems engineering work on the final software iteration of the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it followed a DevOps approach that utilizes commercial cloud tec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 9, 2017 ” Inmarsat has received recognition from the Mobile Satellite Users Association for the company’s Wideband Streaming L-band service during the Satellite 2017 Conference in Washington, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the WiSL service won the 2017 Mobili...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has appointed eight new executives to its technical solutions division that was formed in December following HII™s $380 million acquisition of Huntsville, Alabama-based government services contractor Camber Corp. Andy Green, an executive vice president at HII and president of Technical So...
Peter Oosterveer, chief operating officer of Fluor (NYSE: FLR), is set to depart the construction and engineering services contractor by the end of March after a 28-year career there. Fluor said Wednesday Oosterveer will retire from the company and return to his native country of Netherlands for another job. He pre...
Michael Atcheson, formerly program director of the international business unit at Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) mission systems sector, has been named president of command and control technologies group at Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL). He succeeds Richard Burt, the group™s acting president who will continue to serve...
Hanover, Maryland-based cyber and geospatial services contractor KeyW (Nasdaq: KEYW) has agreed to purchase Herndon, Virginia-based national security technology provider Sotera Defense Solutions for $235 million cash in a push to add new and complementary work with the intelligence community and related government custo...
