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...
Michael Buscher, a defense and intelligence industry veteran, has been appointed executive director of enterprise operations at counter-unmanned aerial systems developer Fortem Technologies. He will be based out of the company’s new office in Washington, D.C., and will coordinate Fortem’s business development strategies and engagem...
The U.S. Army has begun seeking bids for a potential $293.8 million follow-on contract to procure commercial-off-the-shelf technologies for the service branch’s enterprise installation access control system. The Automated Installation Entry Next procurement effort covers the deployment of the AIE system to additional Army installations outside...
Richard Syretz, former chief operating officer of Ideal Innovations Inc., has been promoted to president of the Arlington, Virginia-based company. He will oversee the professional services business and directly report to Bob Kocher, founder and CEO of I3, the company said Monday. Kocher said Syretz will help expand the company’s client base and dr...
