Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $364.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture and deliver six MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to the Norwegian government. The Sikorsky-built aircraft will help Norway conduct search and rescue missions, perform coastal and offshore patrolling and support other maritime activities, Lockheed said Thurs...
John Avalos, chief growth officer at Arcfield since March, has been appointed chief operating officer at the Chantilly, Virginia-headquartered government and mission support services company. He will continue to manage growth and technology functions, provide operational oversight for the company’s three business sectors and help plan for futu...
Virtru has appointed industry veterans Carrick Longley as senior vice president of global public sector and Jason Green as vice president of federal sales as the company seeks to build its growth momentum. Both executives bring decades of experience overseeing modernization programs for public sector customers, the Washington, D.C.-headquarter...
DCS has received a $168 million contract from the U.S. Army to continue providing operational services to the Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems and the Army Contracting Command-Detroit Arsenal. The five-year contract will extend support for programs including Project Manager Main Battle Tank Systems and other PEO GCS subordinate organiz...
Rodney Slater, former U.S. secretary of the Department of Transportation, and Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence and a two-time Wash100 awardee, have been elected to respectively serve as chairman and vice chairwoman of Mitre’s board of trustees. Slater most recently served as interim chairman and has been a memb...
The shares of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) popped 4.03 percent to $242.40 on mid-week after the company reported a 6 percent year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter of 2023 to $10.6 billion versus Q3 2022. Another business highlight was the $95.6 billion company-wide backlog, the highest ever in the defense contractor’s history. Net earn...
Jim Scanlon, a board member at Radiance Technologies since 2021, has been appointed president of the Huntsville, Alabama-based defense technology services contractor. Scanlon, who has served as chairman of the board’s governance committee and member of audit and compensation panels, will continue to serve on Radiance’s board in addition to h...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm has received a potential $486.4 million contract from the State Department to field, operate, maintain and support the agency’s Integrated Logistics Management System. The contractor will provide customer outreach and training, security monitoring and patching and other operations and maintenance support for I...
Cordell DeLaPena, program executive officer for military communications and positioning, navigation, and timing at Space Systems Command, said the U.S. Space Force plans to release in January a request for proposals for the space vehicle segment of a potential $8 billion satellite constellation designed to provide nuclear command, control and commun...
Keith Flynn, formerly senior vice president of product and engineering at Glydways, has taken on the newly created role of SVP of manufacturing at Anduril Industries. He will help scale the production of autonomous systems for domestic and international customers and lead a team of 200 engineers and technicians across the U.S. and Australia, Anduril...
