A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary has received a potential $68.4 million task order under a six-year contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for delivery of GPS receiver parts and provision of vendor-managed inventory services. Raytheon Intelligence and Space will conduct work in California through May 13, 2022, as part of the firm-f...
Michael Bradshaw, an information technology industry leader, has been named chief information officer of Kyndryl, an independent managed infrastructure services provider spinning out of IBM (NYSE: IBM). He previously served as executive vice president and CIO at NBC Universal, where he led the company’s global IT operations, strategy, applications...
Nico Popp, former chief product officer of cybersecurity software provider Forcepoint, has been appointed to the same position at Columbia, Maryland-based vulnerability management company Tenable. He will oversee global engineering and product management functions that support Tenable’s framework to help customers understand and address potent...
Arlington, Virginia-based data analytics company Black Cape has appointed information technology professionals Kevin Dwyer and Scott Fairgrieve to vice president roles and named Ariana Hong as director of software engineering. Dwyer, formerly a principal software engineer with Black Cape, will oversee design and engineering functions in his new posi...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has proposed a set of requirements to address the panel’s national security concerns over the ownership of Mometus as part of a review process for the proposed merger between the space infrastructure services provider and Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SRAC). Santa Clara, California-bas...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2021 — Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, talked about how the U.S. Postal Service and company collaborated to deploy a distributed edge artificial intelligence platform in an effort to streamline the identification and tracking of packages, ExecutiveBi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2021 — Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) will support multiple efforts focused on space domain awareness as part of several contract awards with a combined value of more than $46 million, ExecutiveBiz reported May 7. Phil Carrai, president of the space, training and cybersecurity division at Kratos, ci...
Melanie Kyle Gingrich, formerly senior director of government products at recruitment company Monster Worldwide, has been named as the first vice president of training and development for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body. Gingrich will oversee programs intended to educate and train contractors that want to comply wit...
Following an opening keynote address by Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency (NSA) Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, GovConWire Events moved to the second part of Wednesday’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum with a can’t miss expert panel. Bob Renko, director of digital forensics at Peraton, acted as the panel’s moderator with Je...
The U.K. has ordered 14 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Chinook military helicopters from the U.S. through a 10-year, $2 billion foreign military sales transaction. The British defense ministry said Thursday it expects to receive extended-range H-47 aircraft beginning in 2026 and will add the new platform to an existing Chinook fleet at the Royal Air Force...
