Janet Kavandi has been elevated from senior vice president to executive VP of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s space systems group. The 25-year NASA veteran will manage the SSG business organization and its programs that include the Dream Chaser, a cargo spacecraft the company is manufacturing under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with the sp...
Mark Dankberg, chairman and former CEO of Viasat, has been named executive chairman at the Carlsbad, California-based communications firm and succeeded by President Rick Baldridge as its chief executive....
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has expanded its unclassified geospatial intelligence delivery system with images captured by commercial small satellites. NGA said Thursday that government agencies and international allies can now access small satellite imagery from Planet Federal and BlackSky Global through the Global Enhanced GEOINT De...
The State Department has approved a $500M foreign military sale of Standard Missile-2 Block IIIC systems to be built by Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) for installation on Canada's planned fleet of 15 surface combatant ships....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 6, 2020 — Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) partnered with Avaya to help the Social Security Administration implement the latter's OneCloud communications and collaboration tools suite, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 20....
Electromagnetic spectrum technology maker Pacific Defense has acquired Nashua, New Hampshire-based Spear Research for an undisclosed sum as part of the former’s push to expand its military open-systems portfolio....
Tom Afferton, vice president of Northrop Grumman's (NYSE: NOC) defense and intelligence unit, recently spoke to ExecutiveBiz for an in-depth conversation on how the company is helping customers manage and secure data, the role “agile" methodology plays in the firm's systems engineering process and his outlook for emerging technology...
Denise Manning, former president of consulting services provider G&B Solutions, has been named vice president of resource conservation at Tysons, Virginia-based information technology contractor NuAxis Innovations. She will oversee NuAxis' technical program objectives to support the departments of the Interior and Agriculture, the company s...
Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Airborne Tactical Advantage Co. business has won a potential five-year, $441.6M contract to provide subsonic and supersonic aircraft to support the U.S. Navy’s fleet training operations....
The State Department’s bureau of overseas buildings operations has released a list of 25 companies shortlisted for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide worldwide architecture and engineering support services....
