An HII (NYSE: HII) division will help the U.S. Air Force manage its bombers portfolio under a five-year, $138 million task order. HII Mission Technologies will provide advisory and assistance services to the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s directorate responsible for modernizing and sustaining bomber systems, the company said Mon...
Shankar Rachkonda has been an entrepreneur at heart for a long time, so it wasn’t a question if he was going to start a business, just a matter of when. After earning a mechanical engineering bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in engineering, he built a career working in large businesses serving government and commercial entities as...
Axient has appointed Tina Leighty as vice president of quality and change management and named Bryan West as VP of the company’s logistics engineering division. Leighty started her career at Axient in 2009 and held various roles of increasing responsibilities including head of the quality compliance department and post-merger integration manag...
The Association of the U.S. Army has welcomed Lisa Atherton, president and CEO of Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell business, as the latest addition to the organization’s board of directors. Atherton replaced Mitch Snyder, a Bell veteran who retired from the company in April and the AUSA board, the non-profit said Friday. The new board director...
American Systems President and CEO Peter Smith is set to retire on Sept. 5 after a 43-year career with the company and will be succeeded by John Steckel, vice president of corporate development. Smith, a three-time Wash100 winner, will continue to be part of American Systems’ board of directors after he steps down from the...
CRDF Global, a nonprofit cybersecurity organization in Arlington, Virginia, has added GovCon industry executives Linda Gooden, Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, Alonzo Fulgham and Kenneth Myers to the board of directors. Gooden is a four-decade aerospace and defense industry veteran who previously served as executive vice president of information systems...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) saw its revenue climb 7 percent year-over-year to $3.8 billion during the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 and reported $210 million in net income and diluted earnings per share of $1.50. The defense and information technology services contractor said Tuesday the revenue growth was driven by increased demand for hypersoni...
David Thombs, former chief strategy officer and executive vice president of strategy and business development at SI2 Technologies, has been named deputy chief technology officer at Antenna Research Associates. He announced his new role Sunday on LinkedIn and will concurrently serve as ARA’s CTO and VP of technology strategy. Thombs was instrum...
Judy Marks, chair, president and CEO of Otis Worldwide Corp. (NYSE: OTIS), noted organic sales growth in the company’s core business segments and higher adjusted earnings per share for the second quarter of 2023. Net sales for the period grew 6.7 percent year-over-year to $3.72 billion, while revenue climbed 9.5 percent on an organic basis,...
Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ‘s public sector and chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 Quantum Group, was named inaugural member of the board of advisers at private equity firm Bluestone Investment Partners. As advisory board members, Sovada and four other leaders from the defense and government services industry will provide Blues...
