The House Armed Services Committee voted down an amendment that would have halted the creation of a U.S. Space Corps and instead moved forward with the provision as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which passed late Wednesday night. The provision creates a separate military branch for space operations. The U.S. Air Force...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has expanded the responsibilities of Greg Smith, chief financial officer and executive vice president of corporate development and strategy, to include leadership over business performance, innovation and corporate functional excellence. Smith will have the dual role of CFO and EVP for enterprise performance and strategy begin...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 27, 2017 ” Noblis has received recognition as one of the “Top Workplaces” in the greater Washington, D.C., region for 2017 under the category for large employers, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said June 20 this is the fourth consecutive year that it has been included in the annual...
Caryn Nightengale, formerly director of corporate development at Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security segment, has joined Sunnyvale, California-based unmanned maritime systems maker Liquid Robotics as chief financial officer. She will report to Gary Gysin, Liquid Robotics™ president and CEO, and oversee financial management...
Ron Davis, formerly chief information security officer of Vencore and a certified information systems security professional, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as CISO. Davis will oversee a cybersecurity program that seeks to identify threats and risks as well as implement controls, methods and processes designed to secure HII ente...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 26, 2017 ” Mitre has been included in a list of the “Top Workplaces” in 2017 for the third consecutive year and was ranked 10th under the category for organizations with 500 or more employees, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said June 19 the recognition is based on employee feedback a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 22, 2017 ” Timothy Murphy, president of Thomson Reuters Special Services, has highlighted the role of chief information officers and chief financial officers in influencing cybersecurity measures at organizations, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Law.com reported Friday that Murphy told attendees at Thomson R...
Charlie Sowell, a retired U.S. Navy commander and a former senior vice president at Salient CRGT, has joined Reston, Virginia-based information technology services contractor iWorks as chief operating officer. The more than 30-year national community veteran will lead iWorks’ business development efforts in the personnel security, insider...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Robert Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral‘s government systems business, has said the pending acquisition by parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates of DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) would enable MDA to build up support for intelligence and d...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will divide the network and space systems and military aircraft segments within its defense, space and security business unit into four smaller entities in a move that will take effect July 1. Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing BDS, said Tuesday the reorganization is part of the company™s efforts to ramp up the competitiven...
