Scott Ransley, an aerospace industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience, has been appointed CEO of Cadence Aerospace‘s engines systems unit. Cadence said Tuesday that Ransley succeeds Kevin Martin, who has led the engines segment since January of last year, and will manage the profitability of three business locations that make up t...
NCI Information Systems, a long-time provider of information technology and professional services to the government sector, has rebranded itself to signify the company’s commitment to helping federal civilian, defense and health clients adopt artificial intelligence technology. The name Empower AI is derived from the product NCI released in 20...
Amentum has named leaders who will lead the three businesses within the national security group that the company is forming as part of a restructuring move by CEO John Heller, a six-time Wash100 Award recipient who took the helm of the Germantown, Maryland-based defense contractor in late March, Defense Daily reported Monday. “Today, I am...
Matt Desch, who has led Iridium Communications as its CEO since 2006, received a recent visit from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the company’s office in McLean, VA. Garrettson officially presented Matt Desch with his 2022 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon). “Matt’s busine...
Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was named chair of the new chief information security officer advisory board at data security company Rubrik. He will lead the board consisting of top information security experts and practitioners from several industries in providing Rubrik with data security prod...
Six companies have secured spots on a potential $995 million multiple-award contract to help Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command carry out infrastructure projects within its Hawaii area of responsibility. NAVFAC received 10 offers for the five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and issued $25,000 in guaranteed minimum fu...
Valiant Integrated Services has won a $255 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide international militaries with F-16 aircraft maintenance and pilot training support over a 10-year period. The Foreign Military Sales deal is expected to help U.S. partner-nation air forces to achieve operational capability, the Department of Defense said T...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $1.26 on the company’s common stock. The aerospace and defense company said Wednesday it will give the dividend on Aug. 5 to holders of the common stock as of July 1. Reston, Virginia-based General Dynamics posted flat revenue of $9.4 billion...
Tom Jackson, president of Sarcos Defense, a subsidiary of Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corp., was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He talked about the division’s focus and the plans for the next year of business. Jackson also tackled the acquisition of RE2 and the expected results of that move. Other Q&a...
Vishal Deshpande, a two-decade federal information technology market veteran, has joined Unissant as chief data analytics officer. He will oversee the development and implementation of the company’s technical vision, roadmap and strategy related to data and advanced analytics and help accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine ...
