Srini Dixit, chief financial officer of the global spectrum dominance unit at Raytheon for the past year, has taken on CFO responsibilities within the air power unit of RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) defense-focused business. Dixit announced his new position at Raytheon in a LinkedIn post and concurrently holds the vice president of finance title. He joine...
Executive Mosaic, the Capital region’s premier government contracting membership organization, has named Lockheed Martin Vice President Jim Keffer as the chair of its 4×24 leadership series’ Multi-Domain Group. 4×24 is a favored tradition among GovCon’s most esteemed professionals, a combined social gathering, meeting of th...
Serco‘s U.S. arm has secured a potential six-year, $125 million recompete contract to help the Naval Systems Engineering and Logistics Directorate design and engineer naval ships and associated systems. Serco Inc. said Thursday it will support combatant ship integration efforts for the U.S. Navy’s surface ships, boats, autonomous vehicle...
Mark DeMerse is a thought leader at Carahsoft on 5G and private wireless networks in the public sector. During his nearly 12 years with the company, the sales director has collaborated with Carahsoft’s ecosystem of cellular solution providers to help government organizations take advantage of the latest telecom technology. DeMerse recently partici...
Tim Ray, a retired U.S. Air Force general, officially began his work as president and CEO of the Business Executives for National Security on Sept. 1. The 36-year USAF veteran succeeds Joe Votel, a retired Army general who led the nonprofit organization for the past three years and seven months. “BENS is fortunate to have...
BAE Systems was awarded a $797 million initial order to proceed with full-rate production of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle for the U.S. Army. The service branch said Thursday the contract value could reach $1.6 billion if it exercises options to order additional units of the AMPV, which is designed to replace the M113 family of...
IFS has agreed to acquire Falkonry, a California-headquartered developer of artificial intelligence-powered software, in a push to expand its enterprise software offerings for defense and manufacturing industries. The transaction will combine Falkonry’s automated, self-learning anomaly detection tool with IFS’ AI-based planning, scheduli...
GCOM, a portfolio company of Sagewind Capital, and OnCore Consulting have merged operations with the goal of bringing digital software platforms and related services to the public sector market. John Nichols and Lee Bennett, co-founder and managing director of OnCore, and Lisa Mascolo, former managing director of federal businesses at IBM (NYSE: IBM...
Logistics is one of the most critical factors in determining warfighting success. Today, U.S. adversaries are working to undermine the nation’s ability to transport forces and equipment to areas of need, and according to Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, a strong network of partners is crucial to co...
Synthetaic will use Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) cloud graphics processing unit compute resources to further develop an artificial intelligence-based image processing tool, called Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, under a five-year strategic partnership agreement. Delafield, Wisconsin-based Synthetaic said Tuesday the RAIC platform is built on t...
