Andy Lowery has been promoted from chief operating officer and manager of commercial operations to CEO of Epirus. The company said Monday Lowery will step in for Ken Bedingfield, who is leaving after four years working for the organization. Lowery started at Epirus in 2021 as chief product officer. Prior to that, he co-founded and...
Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has been elected to serve as chair of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2024. Colbert, who also serves as an executive vice president at Boeing, succeeds Tom Gentile as chairman and will serve on the association’s exe...
Michael Foster, former head of solutions engineering at CrowdAI, was appointed as chief data officer of the U.S. Central Command. The military branch is banking on Foster’s expertise in artificial intelligence model development, big data management and spatio-temporal analytics to reach its goal of becoming a data-centric organization, CENTCOM...
Jennifer Doherty was elevated to the roles of vice president, chief security officer and chief information officer at Draper, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nonprofit research and development organization, according to her LinkedIn post. She has been with Draper for over six years, taking on various positions of increasing responsibilities. The ex...
Jill Bone, formerly senior vice president of talent at Alteryx, has been promoted to chief people officer at the Irvine, California-based data analytics automation software company, according to a recently published LinkedIn post. Bone joined Alteryx in 2020 and has since built and led a team of HR professionals supporting the company’s talent...
Beacon Global Strategies has appointed intelligence and defense industry veterans Andrew Boyd, Seth Jones and Elizabeth Sizeland as senior advisers and named Leyla Becker, formerly director of human resources at Tripoint Solutions, as chief human resources officer. Boyd, a former senior intelligence service officer in the CIA’s Directorate of ...
Well-versed in the defense and intelligence communities, Tom Lash spent almost two decades at SAIC in roles such as senior systems engineer, chief technology officer and vice president of operations. He then became a part of Leidos when it spun off from SAIC in 2013. At Leidos, he helped administer engineering integration for the storied...
In October, the Department of Defense announced its intent to publish its first National Defense Industrial Strategy to lay out its plans for investment in the defense industrial base. According to Laura-Taylor Kale, assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy, the strategy will center five key areas: creating resilient ...
Roger Mason, president of Peraton‘s space and intelligence sector and a four-time Wash100 awardee, was named a member of the board of directors of Capella Space and will provide the San Francisco-based Earth observation satellite developer with leadership and insight to support its growth, according to a LinkedIn announcement. Aside from Mason...
Ursa Major raised $138 million at the close of its Series D and D-1 funding rounds. Explorer 1 Fund and Eclipse led the investor group that includes RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) investment arm, BlackRock-managed funds and accounts, Exor Ventures, Mack & Co. and other institutional shareholders. With the fresh funds, the independent rocket propulsion ...
