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. &...
The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to continue its purchase of engineering technical and maintenance support services for C, D, E and F variants of the F/A-18 fighter aircraft from the U.S. government under a potential $1.8 billion foreign military sales agreement. Sigmatech, Kay and Associates, KBR (NYSE: KBR), L3Harris Techno...
D-Fend Solutions has named two vice presidents and one general manager to help the counter-drone technology provider accelerate its growth initiatives in the U.S. market. The company on Tuesday announced the appointments of S. Danny Rajan as U.S. general manager, Michael Langman as vice president of strategic partnerships and Brett Feddersen as VP o...
Cadmus will continue to help the Environmental Protection Agency provide safe drinking water to the public under a five-year, $162 million recompete contract. The environmental consulting firm said Tuesday it will assist EPA’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water in enforcing the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act to implement pu...
GovCIO received recognition from the Association for Corporate Growth’s National Capital chapter for notable company accomplishments in 2022 such as achieving a 25 percent annual revenue increase and booking $1.3 billion in contracts. The Fairfax, Virginia-based IT contractor said Tuesday it won ACG National Capital’s Corporate Growth Co...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) have partnered with the intent to advance chip technological innovation and strengthen the resiliency and security of U.S. semiconductor supply chains for mission-critical security systems. GF and Lockheed will identify critical needs in secure chip manufacturing and innovation across sev...
