The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will engineer systems for the U.S. Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missile system modernization program under a $165.9 million task order. Under the three-year award, APL will also continue to research and develop specialized functions to support the Sentinel weapon system, the Dep...
Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ‘s public sector and chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Quantum Group, was named inaugural member of the board of advisers at private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners. As advisory board members, Sovada and four other leaders from the defense and government services industry will provide Blues...
RTX (NYSE: RTX), formerly Raytheon Technologies, posted $18.3 billion in fiscal 2023 second quarter sales, up 12 percent from the prior-year period, and saw its adjusted earnings per share increase 11 percent to $1.29 during the quarter. The Arlington, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor said Tuesday its backlog at the end of the quarter...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) have agreed to jointly propose an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft platform to the U.S. Army’s Theater Level High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne – Signals Intelligence program. Leidos said Tuesday the partnership intends to equip a pair of Bombardier Gl...
President Joe Biden has nominated Harry Coker, a more than four-decade public service veteran, to serve as the next national cyber director. The White House said Coker’s nomination was sent to the Senate on Tuesday. Coker is a senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security and serves...
Systems Planning and Analysis underwent an executive leadership change in November 2022 when Bill Vantine retired and Rich Sawchak took the helm as the company’s new CEO. Sawchak refocused the organization’s strategy and structure and is leading SPA to accelerated growth through a combination of organic and acquisition-based expansion ...
Since its launch in 2022, the Army of 2030 initiative has guided the service branch toward its modernization goals. Now characterized by Army Secretary and 2023 Wash100 winner Christine Wormuth’s recently announced six operational imperatives – see and sense farther, mass dispersed forces with combat first, win the fires fight, protect...
Pamela Rothka, a finance professional with nearly three decades of government services industry experience, has joined Empower AI as chief financial officer. She will work with Empower AI’s executive leadership team and board of directors to drive corporate financial performance, the company said Tuesday. “Her disciplined approach to fin...
The Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, or JADC2, has been a high priority for leaders across the defense landscape as they work to provide the United States’ joint force with a connected, unified network to accelerate data sharing and decision making. The Air Force’s response to the Pentagon’s JADC2 effo...
All of the four-star generals of the U.S. Air Force and the vast majority of three-stars assembled in June at a table top exercise that demonstrated various scenarios regarding strategic maneuvers required when carrying out logistics in contested settings and conditions. The service’s leaders saw it as a highly beneficial process that is nece...
