Greg Young, chief operating officer of LinQuest since November 2019, has taken the helm as the company’s president and CEO. He succeeds Timothy Dills, who has retired after nearly four years in the dual role, the space systems development and integration services provider said Wednesday. “I am thrilled to carry on LinQuest’s legacy of cust...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) reported a $6.2 billion revenue from its defense, space and security business for the fourth quarter of 2022, compared with the $5.8 billion posted in the same period a year ago. The BDS organization posted a 5 percent growth year-on-year, bringing its annual sales to $23.1 billion, according to Q4 2022 financial...
The General Services Administration is calling for industry nominations to a new committee that will be tasked with advising federal agencies on cloud adoption and security matters. Interested private sector professionals have until Feb. 9 to nominate themselves to become part of the 15-member Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee, the agency said...
A Textron (NYSE: TXT) subsidiary will manufacture up to 64 multi-engine training systems to replace the U.S. Navy’s T-44C Pegasus trainer platform under a potential $677.2 million contract. Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday the branch initially ordered 10 aircraft for approximately $113.1 million through the firm-fixed-price c...
The Department of Defense has made changes to the Autonomy in Weapon Systems directive to reflect DOD’s continuous efforts to develop policies on military uses of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems as well as changes across the department over the last 10 years. The DoD Directive 3000.09 was developed to prevent unintended engagements ...
Don Graves, deputy secretary at the Department of Commerce, met with CEOs of nine space situational awareness companies to seek ideas on how industry could help build and implement a Traffic Coordination System for Space, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The free space traffic management service is one of the government’s initiatives outsi...
The U.S. Space Force has begun seeking proposals for a potential five-year, $350 million contract for the procurement of innovation, integration and information support services. A notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov states that the 3IS III contract covers information technology, wargaming and combat training support services for Space Delta 12 and its...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will perform non-recurring engineering work for an F-35 flight science test aircraft replacement project under a $320 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. The company will engineer systems to support the production of F-35A, F-35B and F-35C jets intended for testing use by the Navy, Air Force, Mar...
Chris Soong, former chief information officer at HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies business, has been elevated to the positions of executive vice president and CIO at the Newport News, Virginia-headquartered company. His promotion is effective April 1 and he will succeed Bharat Amin, who is set to retire at the end of March after a...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) plans to realign its four current businesses into three focused segments – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon – as part of efforts to drive the company’s technology synergies, market growth and financial targets. Christopher Calio, chief operating officer of Raytheon, will assume additiona...
