The Potomac Officers Club — a division of Executive Mosaic — is bringing together experts from the government, industry and nonprofit sector at a Sept. 22 virtual event for an in-depth discussion of climate change. Panelists at POC’s “Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change in Industry, Government and Society” forum inc...
Axonius has established a new subsidiary that will focus on delivering the needs of U.S. federal agencies looking to meet the requirements of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program and other government initiatives centered on strengthening national cybersecurity. Axonius Federal Systems will offer agencies foundational asset management ca...
Government contractors came from private companies that manufacture goods and services for government establishments. This group of people is like government organizations that come in different shapes and sizes. A group of government contracting companies is hired by the government when their contracts win through bidding. U.S Government contracts ...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is integrating its U.S. federal team into the Azure engineering organization led by Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander as part of a reorganization to improve collaboration and better integrate platforms built for federal users into its cloud portfolio, ZDNET reported Wednesday. Rick Wagner, a 2021 Wash100 Award winn...
Rocket Lab USA started trading Wednesday on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “RKLB” after completing its merger with blank check company Vector Acquisition that was first announced in March. The transaction’s completion came days after shareholders at the Vector Capital-backed special purpose acquisition company approved the business combina...
Teledyne FLIR has appointed JihFen Lei, former principal deputy and acting director of research and engineering at the Defense Department, as vice president and general manager of the company’s surveillance business, Politico reported Monday. Her appointment comes about two months after Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY) acquired FLIR Systems. ...
Phantom Space has acquired Micro Aerospace Solutions for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to build up its mass manufacturing capabilities for satellites, propulsion systems, launch vehicles and other space transportation technologies. Melbourne, Florida-based MAS has been developing microsatellites, propulsion systems, thruster design, computer...
Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business reported $6.87 billion in sales during the second quarter of 2021, reflecting a 4 percent increase from the prior-year period. The company said Wednesday the BDS segment’s revenue jump for the quarter was driven by a higher volume on KC-46A tanker and P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft...
Karen McConnell, an aerospace engineering veteran, has joined Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Blue Canyon Technologies subsidiary as executive director of engineering. Blue Canyon said Monday that McConnell will be responsible for managing the performance, reliability and delivery schedules of its small satellite production line. Her additi...
Tom Vice, a three-decade veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed CEO of Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s subsidiary that focuses on building space platforms for both the government and commercial sectors. He joins Sierra Space as the company aims to launch the Dream Chaser spaceplane on its first cargo delivery mission to the Internat...
