Bill Edmunds, vice president of national intelligence at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been elevated to a senior VP position. The industry veteran will lead a business unit that serves the national intelligence community and will report to Michael LaRouche, president of SAIC’s national security and space sector, th...
Noblis has invested in space technology developer Scout Space through the nonprofit science and technology company’s venture arm. Mile Corrigan, president and CEO of Noblis, said in a statement released Wednesday that both companies recognize the need for better space-based datasets as situational awareness in the domain is becoming a key requ...
Peraton has won a potential 11-year, $1 billion contract to help the Department of the Interior manage the acquisition of secure cloud services for an initiative to transition into a single hybrid enterprise cloud cluster. DOI announced the award of the Cloud Hosting Solutions III indefinite-delivery/indefinite-delivery contract in a notice publishe...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has secured a five-year, $125.5 million contract to help the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command maintain crisis response electronic communication systems. The company will support operational requirements for crisis response and interoperable command, control, communications, computers and combat electronic s...
SpaceX has secured a task order to launch small satellite payloads into orbit under NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative program. The two CSLI missions will launch onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2025 as part of the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare initiative, NASA said Tuesday. Specific pa...
Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners has purchased Pegasus Steel, a provider of fabricated steel structures used for building nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers and other vessels for the U.S. Navy. Tony Deering, founder and CEO of Pegasus Steel, and other members of the management team will continue to run the com...
Tony Gingiss, formerly chief operating officer at Virgin Orbit, has assumed the COO role at satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital (NYSE: LLAP). He brings to the role more than two decades of production, operations and leadership experience in the defense and aerospace industries, Terran Orbital said Wednesday. Gingiss previously oversaw day-to-day o...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has cleared a memo ordering agencies to implement the six recommendations by a tiger team to accelerate and strengthen the foreign military sales process in support of the 2022 National Defense Strategy. The first three recommendations are improving DOD’s unders...
Naval Air Systems Command has chosen a partnership between GALT Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp. to move into the second and third phases of an industry competition to build a network pod capable of supporting MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle operations by the U.S. Marine Corps. Under the SkyTower 2 Airborne Network Extension program, the...
Luke McFadden, a two-decade government contracting industry veteran, has joined Gunnison Consulting Group‘s homeland and justice division as senior vice president. He will primarily oversee Gunnison’s go-to-market strategy for the departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the information technology services provider said Wednesday. &...
