The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded six companies separate contracts under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements program to provide insight into radio frequency remote sensing capabilities. Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, PredaSAR, Spire Global and Umbra Lab will conduct studies to inform the acquisition and integration of comme...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm has promoted Keith Runtz and Vanessa Godshalk to respectively oversee the company’s defense and safety and citizen services portfolios. Runtz succeeds Vince Vlasho, who most recently served as a senior managing director and defense portfolio lead at Accenture Federal Services. Vlasho, a 2022 Wash100 awardee, r...
Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering OUSD(R&E) at the Department of Defense (DoD), recently accepted her 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest annual honor bestowed to the highest members of the government contracting (GovCon) community, during a visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Executive Mosaic is thrilled to recog...
Heidi Hendrix, a former human resources executive at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s space subsidiary as chief people officer. She will directly report to Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice and oversee efforts to build a team of professionals through the company’s facilities in Louisville, Colorado, the spacecraft a...
Inadev has landed a $107 million contract with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to support a process automation project under the agency’s unit responsible for detecting identity theft cases. The company said Tuesday it will help USCIS implement open source artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for the Fraud In...
As the global intelligence landscape shifts and evolves, experts in the U.S. intelligence community are urging both public and private sector organizations alike to prioritize security before threats against our data, information, cyber assets and more become actual attacks with devastating consequences. Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director ...
John Koster, former senior director at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has been named vice president at Modern Technology Solutions Inc., according to the executive’s LinkedIn announcement on Tuesday. He is now responsible for boosting MTSI’s diversified business growth through the delivery of engineering services and technology offerin...
Todd Borkey, most recently chief technology officer at HII’s (NYSE: HII) Mission Technologies division, has assumed the role of executive vice president and CTO of the Newport News, Virginia-based defense and technology services contractor. He will report directly to HII President and CEO Christopher Kastner and oversee research and development an...
Jon Rambeau, a 26-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been appointed to serve as president of the integrated missions systems business at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX). He will assume his new position on Oct. 17 and succeed Sean Stackley, who will transition to a new role as senior vice president of strategy and...
The defense subsidiary of Oshkosh (NYSE: OSK) has won a $263.2 million contract to manufacture Enhanced Heavy Equipment Transporter System trailers and provide logistics support services to the U.S. Army. Dutch special transport builder Broshuis B.V. will serve as the main subcontractor in efforts to deliver as many as 466 trailers to the service br...
