David Appel, most recently vice president of command and control digital solutions at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business, has joined Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing arm as VP of national security, GovCon Wire has learned. He announced his move to Amazon Web Services in a LinkedIn post published Sunday. In ...
ZeroEyes, a Philadelphia-based developer of weapons detection software, has promoted two military veterans to senior vice president ranks as the company looks to expand the adoption of its product in the government sector and pursue strategic partnership efforts. The company said Friday that JT Wilkins, formerly a geospatial intelligence team leader...
Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, opened Wednesday’s Second Annual Army IT and Digital Transformation Forum, with an engaging and informative keynote address covering the challenges in talent recruitment and the immediate need for digital transformation efforts to drive the Army toward its 2030 modernization and strategic objec...
Robert Geckle, chairman and CEO of Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He talked about company projects, such as building the militarized version of the H-145 aircraft, that he considers “most rewarding.” Geckle also discussed his strategic goals for the year, the m...
Mick Fox, chief operating officer of Technomile, has provided his latest feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. In his latest piece, GovCon Expert Mick Fox provided an in-depth look into the foundational stage of maturity and the critical ways that contracting organizations are building their success with CL...
Griffon Aerospace, a Madison, Alabama-based small business, will deliver unmanned aircraft system targets to the U.S. Army under a four-year, $401.8 million firm-fixed-price contract. The aerospace product manufacturer was also tasked to provide the service branch with aerial target support equipment and services, training and mission payload system...
SEMPRE, a 5G service and edge computing company founded by a U.S. Air Force veteran, has acquired NewSpace Networks in a strategy to offer integrated technology products that can support multidomain wireless communications. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed and SEMPRE said Wednesday it plans to expand its Private 5G platform, whi...
Steve Escaravage, an executive vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton, was presented his 2022 Wash100 Award, during a recent visit to the company’s office by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Executive Mosaic recognizes Steve Escaravage as a first-time recipient of the most prestigious and coveted awkward in all of government contracting...
Henry Dubois, chief development officer at BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY) since August 2021, has been appointed to serve as chief financial officer of the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered geospatial intelligence provider. He succeeds Johan Broekhuysen, who resigned from the CFO post and will remain with BlackSky until Aug. 11 to help facilitate the...
The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for the second iteration of a potential five-year, $1 billion contract vehicle to build and update test and evaluation systems for munitions, spectrum improvements, electronic combat and C5ISR platforms. Test and Evaluation Technologies for Ranges, Armaments and Spectrum II is a multiple-award,...
