Samer Halawi, former executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Intelsat, has been named CEO of a newly formed connectivity business within Airbus Group‘s defense and space segment. The three-decade industry veteran will oversee the unit that aims to develop and commercialize telecommunications services for the Zephyr high-altitu...
Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has promoted Barry Byrd to director of contracts from his prior role as deputy director. Byrd shared his promotion in a LinkedIn post and noted that he will focus on Dynetics’ aerospace, defense and civil business operations in his new capacity. He spent more than 14...
General Dynamics’ information technology business will provide data integration and cloud migration support to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under a potential five-year, $65 million contract. GDIT said Thursday it will support CMS’ Integrated Data Repository by providing Agile development and transformation services and deliver ...
The State Department has approved the Dutch government’s request to buy from the U.S. government Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical ballistic missiles through a potential $1.22 billion foreign military sales agreement. Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will serve as the prime contractor in the proposed transaction that covers tool...
In the most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Dawn Pinto, chief financial officer for Critical Mission Solutions with Jacobs, to discuss her reasons for joining the company and her strategic goals. She also shared Jacobs’ efforts to recruit and retain talent in the federal landscape and the challenges facing the bus...
The Environmental Protection Agency has named eleven awardees on a five-year, $5.7 billion contract vehicle to help EPA develop control measures for air pollution and radiation exposure. The five professional service areas under the Environmental, Analytical, Research, Technical and Hybrid contract are data analysis and modeling; environmental scien...
In many ways, the U.S. General Services Administration effectively serves as the back office of the entire federal government. GSA is the largest property manager in the world, the third largest design and construction company in North America and the third largest fleet manager in the world — the agency even outranks the Smithsonian as...
The U.S. Air Force has embarked on a major digital transformation and IT modernization journey in the last few years. Among the service’s top priorities in this area is cloud migration, and the Air Force’s Chief Information Officer, Lauren Knausenberger, isn’t waiting for someone to provide them with cloud capabilities — she’s leading...
Matt Needy HII (NYSE: HII) executives Matt Needy, Bryan Caccavale and Cullen Glass have assumed new leadership positions at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division as part of business transformation meant to optimize shipyard operations and speed up execution. Needy, vice president of Navy programs at HII Newport News Shipbuilding and a 3...
The U.S. Space Force is conducting market research into potential vendors that can help the branch develop, implement, update and expand software platforms to defend its networks and associated computer systems. USSF said Wednesday in a SAM.gov notice that the government intends to procure industry services to support the Space Systems Command’...
