Doug Beck, a vice president of Apple and a U.S. Navy Reserve captain, has been appointed to serve as director of the Department of Defense’s innovation arm beginning on May 1. He will report directly to the defense secretary as part of a realignment of the Defense Innovation Unit’s management structure and oversee the adoption...
Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS) has reported more than $1 billion in contract awards to manufacture electric propulsion hardware for the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines. The defense technology supplier said Monday production efforts will occur at various facilities in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Missouri. Will...
Christina Mee has been named vice president of mission services at Insight Technology Solutions, where she brings two decades of federal civilian and defense market experience. Mee will oversee business expansion initiatives in strategic planning and communications, program management and cybersecurity, Insight said Tuesday in a LinkedIn post. Most ...
Kathleen King, a 24-year Day & Zimmermann veteran, has assumed duties as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at the Philadelphia-based engineering and construction firm. She succeeds Joseph Ritzel, who officially retired Saturday after a 40-year career with the company and is helping facilitate a smooth transition as a p...
General Atomics, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have won positions on a seven-year, $400 million contract to develop aerospace vehicle technologies and integrated systems for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force Research Laboratory received 15 offers on the Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research program, the Depart...
Lockeed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has secured a potential five-year, $305 million contract to produce an integrated common processor for the U.S. Navy’s ship and shore surveillance equipment. The company will provide a common suite of signal processing and display technologies to support vessels equipped wi...
Donna Bennett, enterprise chief information security officer of the State Department, said that safeguarding information is the organization’s “top priority” and it has undertaken a “monumental effort” to fortify its cyber defenses and consolidate its array of networks to keep pace with the increasingly digital threat environment. Ben...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a potential one-year, $650.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the production and delivery of 15 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band ship sets. The Department of Defense said Thursday 11 of the lot 3 low-rate initial production NGJ-MB ship sets will go to the Navy and the rest...
Collins Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), has booked a potential $140 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform repairs on the propeller system of C-130 military transport planes. The sole-source award includes $116.8 million in options and a firm-fixed-price pricing provision, ...
Leonardo’s U.S. defense subsidiary reported revenues of $820 million during the fourth quarter and $2.7 billion for the full fiscal year of 2022. Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS) said Tuesday its Q4 FY22 bookings reached $852 million and full-year awards hit $3.2 billion driven by the rise in demand for its platforms across four key technology...
