Dan Muse, a more than 20-year finance and accounting professional, has been appointed chief financial officer at McLean, Va.-based government services contractor Preferred Systems Solutions. He will directly report to Randy Morgan, president and CEO of PSS, and manage the company™s accounting, finance, contracts and procurement, human resources...
Joanne Isham, a nearly three-decade intelligence community veteran, has been appointed chairperson of the newly formed executive advisory board at Tyto Athene, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners. Isham will lead the board in efforts to help implement Tyto Athene’s strategy and provide insight on market capitalization, acquisitio...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential five-year, $273.1M contract from the U.S. Navy to produce tactical underwater launcher hardware for the common missile compartment to be installed on U.S. and U.K. submarines. The company will also provide technical, component and full-scale engineering services to support CMC development and pro...
Black & Veatch has appointed Steve Scott, Mohan Singh, John Somerville and Rod Staponski to vice president roles as part of the company’s federal service expansion strategy. “Based throughout the U.S., these four experts bring tremendous experience in defense-related program management, Randy Castro, president of the federal business...
Amela Wilson, former vice president of sensor and fire control solutions at Elbit Systems of America (Nasdaq: ESLT), has been named vice president and general manager of the surveillance division within joined FLIR Systems‘s (Nasdaq: FLIR) government and defense business. Wilson will be based in Washington, D.C., and responsible for defining t...
The FBI has awarded a pair of multiple-award contracts worth a combined $137.5M for architectural, engineering and planning services for the bureau’s construction projects within and outside continental U.S. Eight companies will vie for task orders to provide the services throughout the FBI’s region under an $87.5M indefinite-delivery/in...
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) agreed to acquire Mellanox Technologies (MLNX) for approximately $6.9B in a push to expand its footprint in the high-performance computing market. NVIDIA said Monday it will pay $125 in cash for each share of Mellanox through a deal, which is expected to close by the end of 2019, subject to approvals by...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Al Whitmore, president of intelligence and security sector for BAE Systems’ U.S. arm, with his second consecutive Wash100 award on Thursday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Whitmore for leading BAE to major contracts in R&D and adapting to the cloud and other emerging techn...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 11, 2019 ” Chenega Corp. partner Praetorian Standard Inc., a disabled veteran-owned business, secured its first contract on the heels of a mentorship agreement between the two companies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. NASA said Feb. 28 it selected PSI, which Chenega’s security and support solutions business has me...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 11, 2019 ” Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) appointed shipbuilding industry veteran Carlos Aguayo earlier this month to serve as general manager of its San Diego shipyard, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Aguayo, who succeeded the recently retired Daniel Flood, is now in charge of strategy development, quality, p...
