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Eight members of the independent slate led by Eileen Drake, CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD), were elected to the company’s board to serve as directors during the special meeting of shareholders. The slate, including four existing board members, received over 70 percent of the votes cast based on preliminary results and Drake secured the...
Booz Allen Hamilton has received pushback from the U.S. Department of Justice on its March agreement to purchase data science, intelligence and cybersecurity contracting company EverWatch Corp. In the form of a civil antitrust lawsuit made public on Wednesday, the DOJ is asserting that the acquisition violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act and Sectio...
Jim Brinker, president and general manager of Intel Federal and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Tuesday. He remarked on the latest technology trends impacting government agencies. The Q&A also focused on the executive’s latest growth objectives the company’s other initi...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $429.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to maintain and modernize its Black Hawk multirole helicopters. Sikorsky will conduct maintenance and overhaul work in support of the service branch’s UH-60 Black Hawk utility aircraft through June 28, 2027, the Department of ...
The U.S. government is procuring up to 405 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from a partnership between Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (Nasdaq: BNTX) under a $3.2 billion firm-fixed-price contract. The Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday it expects to receive the initial doses for both adult and pediatric use in the fall. “Vaccine...
Mark Dankberg, co-founder and executive chairman of Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT), will return to his roles as chairman and CEO of the company starting July 1. Viasat President and CEO Richard Baldridge will transition to the newly created role of vice chairman and will focus on finalizing the Inmarsat acquisition, manage execution strategy and integration ...
Elbit Systems (Nasdaq: ESLT) has booked a pair of contracts worth $768 million combined to supply a combat networked system and airborne munition guidance kits to unnamed customers in the Asia-Pacific region. The first award, valued at $548 million over four years, is for an integrated system comprising networking middleware, command and control and...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a contract from the U.S. Army to develop a prototype of a tactical ground station designed to facilitate long-range precision targeting by detecting and tracking threats. The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node will collect data from terrestrial, space and aerial sensors and deliver targetable d...
Jeremy Mares, a 25-year sales and business development executive, has joined CyberSheath Services International as vice president of sales. He will bring to the role over a decade of cybersecurity experience and help CyberSheath expand its client base and further build up the federal government’s supply chain, the company said Wednesday. CyberShea...
Tim Reed, a two-decade software industry veteran, has succeeded Gurjot Singh as CEO of Lynx Software Technologies, an endpoint security architecture provider backed by OceanSound Partners. Singh will remain with the company as a member of Lynx’s board of directors and an adviser on corporate strategy, the company said Wednesday. Reed joins the...
