Mark Bendza, former head of investor relations at Honeywell International (Nasdaq: HON), has joined cybersecurity services provider Telos (Nasdaq: TLS) as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He replaces Michele Nakazawa, who has held the CFO role over the past 17 years and will remain part of Telos’ senior executive team to e...
GlobalFoundries has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Malta, New York, and invest $1 billion to support the annual production of additional 150,000 wafers at its existing Fab 8 facility to help address the current chip shortage. The company said Monday it expects the new fab to result in the creation of...
Brian Hale, formerly assistant director of the office of public affairs at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., has joined Tysons, Virginia-based cloud-native risk analytics platforms provider QOMPLX as vice president for global market development and public private partnerships. He will oversee outreach efforts to form partnerships in key markets,...
The space defense sector continues to grow in response to foreign adversaries’ anti-satellite and space-based weaponry developments. The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to rapidly developing and deploying robust space intelligence sensors that will supply military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages...
President Joe Biden has nominated Maj. Gen. Michael Guetlein to serve as the first commander of Space Systems Command, which is set to officially stand up this summer and be in charge of acquiring space systems intended to boost joint force lethality. Guetlein, who has served as deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office since...
Larry Prior, an operating executive for global investment firm The Carlyle Group and five-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been named to the board of directors of cybersecurity and data collection company Shift5. He joins the board as the Rosslyn, Virginia-based security technology provider aims to strengthen its foothold in the defense and commerc...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 600 companies spots on the SeaPort Next Generation contract vehicle for engineering and program management support services. The move marks the expansion of the current pool of vendors competing for task orders across 23 functional areas as part of a rolling admissions process launched in January for the SeaPort-NxG indefin...
A new McAleese & Associates report says U.S. Air Force officials addressed questions raised by lawmakers over the F-35 program during the House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee hearing on fiscal year 2022 fixed-wing aircraft programs Tuesday. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winn...
Intrepid Solutions and Services, a portfolio company of Bluestone Investment Partners, has acquired Darkblade Systems for an undisclosed sum to expand technology products and service offerings for the U.S. Intelligence Community in the areas of counter unmanned aircraft systems, cybersecurity and electronic warfare. Winchester, Virginia-based Darkbl...
Octo, a Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services provider, has acquired Volant Associates for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of IT offerings for agency clients across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Volant’s leadership team will stay and oversee a new division within Oct...
