David Calhoun, president and CEO of Boeing (NYSE: BA), could remain at the helm for another six years after the aerospace and defense company’s board of directors extended its compulsory retirement age for Calhoun from 65 to 70. The company said Tuesday the 64-year-old chief executive has held the dual role since January of last...
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Bollinger Shipyards has bought the Houma, Louisiana-based shipyard division of Gulf Island Fabrication (Nasdaq: GIFI) for approximately $28.6 million in a move to expand construction or repair work in the military and commercial shipbuilding markets. The deal includes a 437-acre waterfront facility, four drydocks and existing contracts to build vess...
Stephanie Hill, executive vice president of rotary and mission systems (RMS) for Lockheed Martin, has received her second Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon). Previously, Hill received the Wash100 Award in 2015 for her leadership and her efforts to push for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM...
Russell Smith, former vice president of cyber practice at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) to serve as its cybersecurity program director. Smith made the announcement through a LinkedIn post published Monday. He spent nearly two and a half years at SAIC. As VP, the cybersecurity a...
Aleut Federal‘s ARS Aleut Demolition Services subsidiary, Bhate Environmental Associates, Central Environmental Inc., EnviroVantage, Neuber Demolition & Environmental Services and Ritz Construction have won spots on a five-year, $$95 million contract to help the U.S. Army demolish and abate excess facilities. The six contractors will compe...
AAR (NYSE: AIR) has appointed Ellen Lord, former undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, to the aviation services provider’s board of directors. Lord, a four-time recipient of the Wash100 Award, oversaw the Pentagon’s contracting, procurement, developmental testing, logistics and materiel-related func...
SpaceX has won a potential $2.89 billion contract from NASA to continue development work on its human landing system that would transport two astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA said Saturday it awarded the firm-fixed-price contract under the Appendix H broad agency announcement of the Next Space...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to announce that Dave Spirk, chief data officer for Department of Defense (DOD), has been named a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for leading DOD’s new data strategy, advancing the department’s principles to adapt its data culture to support U.S. warfighters and military capabilities. With this honor, Spirk has r...
Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), has been named a 2021 Wash100 Award winner for his leadership in the COVID-19 pandemic response and relief as well as the advancement of U.S. space exploration and development of IT technology capabilities. For Scolese, this marks the second consecutive year that he’s recei...
