SOS International subsidiary Exovera has named Mario Contreras, a more than three-decade special operations and intelligence professional, as chief data officer. In this role, he is focused on integrating acquisition, management and governance in the development and implementation of the company’s data strategy, Exovera said Tuesday. “Mario brin...
The governments of U.S. and Germany have agreed on the procurement of 35 F-35 Lightning II aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), in a deal aimed at strengthening the latter’s operational interoperability with allied nation partners. The transaction covers the provision of engines, spare and replacement parts, mission equ...
Ernst & Young will help the Department of the Air Force audit its general fund and working capital fund under a potential five-year, $200.2 million contract from the Defense Finance Accounting Service. The labor-hour contract provides for audit services of financial statements and examination and includes a 12-month base period that runs through...
Federal contracting industry veteran Katherine White has joined PM Consulting Group as vice president of delivery and programs. She oversees the development of processes and workflows to help improve the customer experience with federal agency clients and collaborates with program management, finance, accounting and business development teams to str...
By Rich Wilkinson Some folks in the government contracting world are so consumed by metrics that if there happens to be no metric for a particular thing, they question whether that thing is worth measuring at all. But just because something is hard to measure doesn’t mean it isn’t important. As we emerge from the...
James Black, a corporate law executive with two decades of aerospace and defense industry experience, has been appointed senior vice president and general counsel at Terran Orbital (NYSE: LLAP). He joins the small satellite manufacturer after serving as VP and deputy general counsel of the North American division of U.K.-based defense contractor Ult...
Software company C3 AI (NYSE: AI) will advance the deployment of enterprise artificial intelligence applications across the Missile Defense Agency under the first three orders awarded through a potential five-year, $500 million production-other transaction agreement. C3 AI said Tuesday the first order calls for the delivery of an enterprise AI capab...
Shield AI, an artificial intelligence-focused aerospace and defense technology company, closed its Series E round after raising an additional $60 million in funding from the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund to support the development of its AI pilot for military and commercial aircraft. The new capital brings the total value of the company’s fi...
A Veritas Capital affiliate has bought Chromalloy parent company Sequa from Carlyle (Nasdaq: CG) in a move aimed at expanding the New York-based technology investor’s portfolio with aftermarket services for aviation, energy and defense customers. In a statement published Tuesday, Ramzi Musallam, CEO and managing partner of Veritas, highlighted...
Coming out of his undergraduate work in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Kent Wilcher considered three industries: oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and defense. After some brief deliberation, his answer was fairly easy. He decided to serve the defense industry because of his belief in its mission—he wanted something highly technica...
