Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2022. He will also serve on the association’s executive committee along with Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile, who is set...
Christie Thomas, vice president of contracts and pricing at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division since 2018, has been appointed to serve as corporate vice president of investor relations starting Jan. 1. She will succeed Dwayne Blake, who will retire at the start of 2022 after nine years in the job, the...
Dev Kalyan, former chief clinical transformation officer and chief growth officer of OptumServe, has assumed the CGO role at B3 Group. He will be responsible for B3 Group’s customer engagement initiatives aimed at helping federal enterprise customers implement processes around data governance, cybersecurity, program management and functional ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 1, 2021 — Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a Missile Defense Agency award to participate in a program focused on the development and demonstration of a hypersonic missile interceptor meant to counter threats in the glide phase of flight, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 22. ̶...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has won a $99 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop capabilities for multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling in support of the service branch’s munition research. The Weapon Engagement Simulation Technology for Advanced Research award is a five-year, indefinite-d...
BlueHalo was awarded a $30.3 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to create a cloud platform that will be used for monitoring, identifying, targeting and engaging weapon system threats. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the contractor will conduct integration and assessment activities aside from developing a Command, Acquire, Trac...
A new McAleese & Associates report says major defense prime contractors recorded a 4 percent to 6 percent increase in sector profit during the third quarter of 2021. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYS...
Paul Weiss, a two-decade veteran of CGI (NYSE: GIB), has been named VP of strategic program delivery and solution development at Reston, Virginia-based information technology company Brillient. He will oversee employee engagement, innovation and customer success functions within Brillient’s digital transformation business area, with a focus on...
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have come up with a roadmap of future activities related to cryptoassets in 2022 to provide greater public clarity on whether such activities by banking institutions are legally allowed. Activities outlined in the...
Austal‘s U.S. business arm has received a potential five-year, $215.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to repair and maintain littoral combat ships stationed in the countries and ports within the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Under a $72.5 million base contract award, Austal USA will primarily perform work in Singapore from January 2022...
