American Systems President and CEO Peter Smith is set to retire on Sept. 5 after a 43-year career with the company and will be succeeded by John Steckel, vice president of corporate development. Smith, a three-time Wash100 winner, will continue to be part of American Systems’ board of directors after he steps down from the...
Frontgrade Technologies, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, has acquired radio frequency amplifier technology provider Aethercomm in a deal aimed at complementing Frontgrade’s aerospace and defense electronics portfolio. The acquired entity will operate as Frontgrade Aethercomm and be led by Todd Thornton as general manager, the parent co...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has wrapped up the critical design review of its satellites and related ground systems for the first tranche of the transport layer as part of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. The CDR phase included a system optical communications terminal interoperability test and design valida...
Hypersonic weapons have become a major priority for government and military leaders as the United States’ key competitors advance their own hypersonic capabilities and threaten America’s technological dominance. During the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Army Summit, the Honorable Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army f...
DLH Holdings (Nasdaq: DLHC) posted fiscal 2023 third-quarter revenue of$102.2 million, up 54 percent from the prior-year period’s $66.4 million. The Atlanta-based company said Wednesday it ended the quarter with a contract backlog of $817.8 million, of which about $147.3 million was funded. The federal digital transformation and systems engineerin...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is seeking input from vendors specializing in cloud-based data and analytics as part of its technology modernization push. FEMA issued Thursday a request for information to support the development of FEMADex in accordance with Agile methodology principles. The agency is interested in small businesses or larger...
Metropolitan Security Services Inc., doing business as Walden Security, has won seven contracts worth $1.93 billion combined from the U.S. Marshals Service to provide protective services to U.S. courthouses. The awards cover court security officer staffing in the 2nd, 6th, 7th and 9th through 12th federal judicial circuits, according to USMS notices...
Christopher Miller, a retired U.S. Army officer and former acting secretary at the Department of Defense, has been named interim chief revenue officer at autonomous systems maker DZYNE Technologies. He will work closely with the company’s leadership team to accelerate government market growth initiatives and identify international partnership ...
CRDF Global, a nonprofit cybersecurity organization in Arlington, Virginia, has added GovCon industry executives Linda Gooden, Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, Alonzo Fulgham and Kenneth Myers to the board of directors. Gooden is a four-decade aerospace and defense industry veteran who previously served as executive vice president of information systems...
Andrew Brown, a software industry veteran with almost three decades of experience, was appointed senior vice president and chief revenue officer of Red Hat, where he will take over Larry Stack starting Oct. 1. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based software company said Thursday Brown will develop global go-to-market strategy for the company and have ove...
