Dawne Hickton, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Critical Mission Solutions for Jacobs (NYSE: J), was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Tuesday. Hickton, a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, tackled Jacobs’ growth strategy and related senior leadership appointments as well as ef...
John Mollard, vice president and treasurer at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has assumed the position of acting chief financial officer at the Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace and defense contractor. He will fill the role while the company searches for a permanent replacement for Kenneth Possenriede, who decided to retire after a 35-year career with...
Saab will develop and produce system replacements for a ship-based continuous wave target illuminator under a potential $104.8 million firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed fee and cost-only contract from the U.S. Navy. The contract for the MK 9 Tracker Illuminator System replacements has a $32.2 million base amount and a two-year initial performance pe...
The State Department has approved a potential $270 million foreign military sales deal covering sustainment equipment and services for Greece’s F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Atec are the principa...
IntelliBridge, a McLean, Virginia-based portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, has purchased U.Group to expand its technology portfolio and client base across federal civilian, defense and homeland security agencies. U.Group is a digital transformation company founded in 2010 and provides Agile development, consulting support, data science, Dev...
Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm, has agreed to acquire the Electron Devices and Narda Microwave-West divisions of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) for an undisclosed sum. The divisions will eventually form an independent company called Stellant Systems upon the transaction’s closing, which is expected to o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2021 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will provide the National Cancer Institute with digital communications design and strategy support for its behavioral health initiatives under a potential five-year, $49 million recompete blanket purchase agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported July 23. Mark Lee, executive vice president and public sec...
A Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) subsidiary has been awarded a $94.88 million contract to manufacture lot 10 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile systems for the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. Alliant Techsystems Operations, which operates under Northrop’s defense systems sector, will convert 87 AGM-88B High Speed Anti-Radiati...
Crowley‘s government services business will continue to help U.S. Transportation Command coordinate surface freight activity for two Defense Department agencies under a one-year, $453 million contract modification. The company will perform work for the Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Contract Management Agency through July 31, 2022, as pa...
Gregory Kausner, executive director for international cooperation at the Department of Defense, has been assigned to perform the duties of defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment. DOD said Tuesday it also appointed Paul Cramer, DOD’s principal deputy assistant secretary for sustainment (installations), to serve as Kausner’...
