Sierra Nevada Corp. has purchased a portfolio of infrastructure-independent, vertical takeoff and landing aerial drones from Volansi in a strategy to build up SNC’s position in the market for unmanned aerial vehicles. The deal covers Volansi’s Voly-50 and Voly-T offerings, a factory in Bend, Oregon, and key personnel, SNC said Monday. SN...
Maria Ricciardone Lee, a corporate finance executive with two decades of industry experience, has been appointed to succeed Greg Gardner as vice president of investor relations at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). She will assume the position on Oct. 17 while Gardner will stay at Lockheed until he retires on Dec. 31 after a 37-year career,...
Systecon has received a contract modification from the U.S. Army to continue deploying an analytics tool that could enable the service to perform predictive maintenance and improve operational readiness of its fleet of military vehicles and related platforms, GovCon Wire has learned. The company said Friday it will support a brigade level-operationa...
Jeff Redman, formerly director of Citizant‘s civilian business unit, has been appointed vice president of operations at the Chantilly, Virginia-based government information technology services provider. Redman has three decades of IT program experience and will oversee portfolio alignment, growth and performance in his new position, the compan...
Kuwait seeks to procure a medium-range air defense system from the U.S. government through a potential $3 billion foreign military sales transaction cleared by the State Department. Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), which produces the National Advanced Surface-To-Air Missile System in partnership with Norwegian company Kongsberg, will be the main c...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has secured a $532.9 million contract modification to continue design, development research and lead yard support services associated with the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class attack submarines. Contract work will occur at Electric Boat’s facilities in Groton, Connecticut, and Newport...
Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), recently accepted his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in the government contracting (GovCon) community, during a visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the department’s headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. Executive Mosaic has recognized&n...
Cybersecurity has become the latest frontier in national security with the expansion and proliferation of the digital environment in recent decades. Today, cyber is also an emerging and important component of warfighting, and the U.S. government has placed a high priority on better protecting our critical information, data and cyber assets as the th...
Swami Swaminathan has been promoted to the chief executive officer role at Reli Group, where he formerly served as a chief information officer for more than five years. Swaminathan, who has also served as acting CEO since July, will be responsible for overseeing Reli’s delivery and operational areas in his full-time position, the health infor...
This October is Cybersecurity Awareness month, and the federal government is taking multiple actions to better inform, prepare and protect Americans in the face of rising cyber threats. In a Sep. 30 proclamation, President Biden encouraged not only government and industry organizations, but also American citizens to employ measures like enablin...
