Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $91.28 million contract modification to develop and electronic warfare radio frequency compatibility tool for the U.S. Air Force. The company will provide software development, testing, capability maturation and hardware qualification support services to the military branch, the Department of Defense said ...
Tim Kopra, a former NASA astronaut who became commander of the International Space Station, has joined the U.S. proxy organization of OneWeb to serve as president and drive its growth efforts. He most recently worked as the vice president for robotics and space operations of Canadian space technology firm MDA, OneWeb Technologies said Thursday. Kopr...
Church Hutton, a more than two-decade veteran of the public and private sectors, has been named vice president of government relations at aerospace and defense technology provider Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY). The U.S. Army Reserve veteran will lead a business that engages with federal and state government entities in his new position, Mercury sai...
Randy “RJ” Kolton, a more than 23-year government market veteran, has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Fairfax, Virginia-based information technology services provider HarmonyTech. The retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel will be responsible for overseeing HarmonyTech’s corporate operations, growth strateg...
Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has been elected to serve on Mitre’s board of trustees. Jason Providakes, president and CEO of Mitre and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said in a statement published Thursday Gordon’s expertise will help the nonprofit research company pursue innov...
Keith Johnson, a four-decade government market veteran and a former executive at Spire Global, has joined artificial intelligence software provider CrowdAI as strategic revenue officer. Johnson led the establishment of Spire Global’s (NYSE: SPIR) federal practice and helped the space company go public in August 2021, when it merged with specia...
Donny Dorsey, formerly a ship program manager at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has been appointed to serve as vice president of operations within the same unit. He will succeed George Jones, who is set to retire on April 1 after 37 years of career with HII, the military shipbuilder said Thursday....
The General Services Administration is soliciting input from industry as it plans to launch a follow-on acquisition for the Commercial Platforms program in accordance with a provision of the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which seeks to create an initiative to enable federal agencies to buy commercial items through e-commerce p...
The Senate on Thursday voted 68-31 to pass a $1.5 trillion budget package to fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2022, sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature, The Wall Street Journal reported. The omnibus package would provide $782 billion for the Department of Defense, which...
David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector organization, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. GovCon Expert David Egts provided a breakdown looking into the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has made on the digitization of federal agencies during his first fe...
