Kurt Abkemeier, who joined Fidelis Cybersecurity in July 2017, has been appointed chief financial officer of the Bethesda, Maryland-based automation detection and response technology company. Fidelis said Thursday Abkemeier brings 20 years of industry experience to his new position and the company expects him to play a key r...
Thomas Bell, senior vice president of global sales and marketing at Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, will rejoin Rolls-Royce this month as president of the aircraft engine manufacturer’s defense arm. Rolls-Royce said Wednesday Bell initially joined the company in mid-2012 as pre...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $235 million initial task order from the U.S. Army to modernize the Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept on Target system. The award represents the first of five annual orders the Army would issue annually as part of a potential five-year, $2.3 billion Patriot system-of-systems engineering support contr...
Michael Mayberry, formerly corporate vice president at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), has been promoted by the board of directors to senior VP and chief technology officer as part of a series of leadership changes at the Santa Clara, California-based technology firm. Mayberry will continue to lead global computing and communications research programs as mana...
Douglas œDoug Lopez, formerly chief operating officer of Engineering Services Network, has been promoted to president at the Woodbridge, Virginia-based government information technology and engineering services contractor. Lopez will oversee the implementation and delivery of IT, cyber engineering, program management and logistics services to D...
Gryphon Technologies has won a potential $83.5 million task order for engineering and technical services to the U.S. Navy‘s Surface Maintenance and Engineering Planning Program. The company said Wednesday it will help the Naval Sea Systems Command establish a centralized system to develop management requirements as well as plan maintenanc...
A Boeing-led (NYSE: BA) team has received a six-year, $6.56 billion contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue the production and sustainment of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense ballistic missile defense system. The modification covers the delivery of a new missile field with 20 additional silos; two additional sil...
Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business has received a $105.2 million contract modification to produce, test and engineer all variants of the Griffin missile for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification exercises an option under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefini...
Some contractors have expressed plans to increase their investments in production capacity and facilities in fiscal year 2018 and in the next few years as the Defense Department starts to ramp up contract obligations, USNI News reported Wednesday. Jason Aiken, chief financial officer at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), told analysts in a conference call...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $81 million contract to design and build a prototype designed to replace the U.S. Air Force™s aerial launch control system aboard the E-6B Mercury airborne command post aircraft. The service awarded the technology maturation and risk reduction contract through the Airborne Launch Control...
