Christopher Kubasik, vice chairman, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), said the company plans to return more than $7.5 billion in cash to shareholders between 2021 and 2022, Reuters reported Thursday. Kubasik, a three-time Wash100 winner, noted L3Harris’ additional divesture proceeds of nearly $2 billio...
Larry Melton, an independent member of the board of directors at Dewberry since September 2019, has been appointed as the board’s vice chair. He will serve on the executive panel and help Barry Dewberry, the professional services firm’s executive chairman, to administer the responsibilities of the board to stakeholders, the company said ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a contract from an undisclosed commercial customer to build and deliver a payload meant to ensure space domain awareness, Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of the company’s space business and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said in a LinkedIn post. The optical sensor-equipped payload will be used f...
Wael Mohamed, former president and chief operating officer at Trend Micro Group, has succeeded Greg Clark as CEO of network security vendor Forescout Technologies. Clark will continue to serve as co-chairman of Forescout’s board of directors and work closely with Mohamed to lead drive its “enterprise of things” defense mission, the company...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) will collaborate with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) on a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to protect the confidentiality of encrypted information during data processing by developing an accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption. Intel said Monday it will build an application-specific integrated circuit ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 8, 2021 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has extended a partnership with information technology company NEC to continue using the latter’s System Invariant Analysis Technology to identify potential anomalies during spacecraft development and satellite ground support operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Lockheed sa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 5, 2021 — ST Engineering North America has welcomed its new chief information officer, Gunjan Goel, a more than two-decade industry veteran who joined the company after serving as senior vice president of information technology at Cobham, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 25. “Throughout his career, Gunjan led business and tech...
David Ray, a former executive and more than 15-year veteran of Raytheon, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as senior vice president in charge of space business, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday. In his new capacity, Ray will be responsible for strategy development and profit and loss functions within SAIC’s spa...
The U.S. Navy has continually worked to decentralize, differentialize and digitize the service branch’s work as well as develop its talent in the field. As the Navy continues to evolve to meet the growing demands, challenges still remain. Join GovConWire’s Navy: IT Transformation Forum to hear notable industry and federal leaders discuss t...
Larry Ryder, former senior director of business development and customer relations at Austal USA, has been elevated to the role of vice president of business development and external affairs at the Mobile, Alabama-based shipbuilder. Ryder will coordinate Austal’s media relations and external communications and oversee legislative activiti...
