U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is inviting defense companies and nonprofit research institutions to submit white papers as part of a competitive process to develop military technology through engineering and high-performance computing approaches. USACE said Wednesday its Engineer Research and Development Center seeks contractors for prototyping projec...
Tony Frazier, executive vice president for global field operations at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, has joined the board of directors of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM). He will provide strategic oversight support for the Iridium enterprise as a board member, the communications satellite operator said Tues...
Shareholders at Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings (NYSE: AJRD) voted Tuesday to approve the company’s $4.4 billion sale to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and both parties still expect to close the transaction in the second half of this year. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday holders of approximately 99.76 percent of its stock were in favor of the merger...
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX have received task orders worth $384 million combined from the U.S. Space Force to deploy payloads and integrate missions for phase two of the National Security Space Launch program. The branch awarded ULA a pair of task orders, valued at $224.3 million, to support the USSF-112 and USSF-87 missions, the...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a contract from an undisclosed commercial customer to build and deliver a payload meant to ensure space domain awareness, Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of the company’s space business and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said in a LinkedIn post. The optical sensor-equipped payload will be used f...
William “Bill” Zito, a more than three-decade public sector veteran and a retired U.S. Army command sergeant major, has been named vice president of Sev1Tech’s mission solutions group. Zito will oversee growth initiatives within Sev1Tech’s federal civilian business segment and lead the development of offerings intended to help custom...
President Joe Biden has named Clare Martorana, formerly chief information officer of the Office of Personnel Management, as federal CIO and administrator of the office of electronic government at the Office of Management and Budget. Martorana spearheaded efforts to deliver digital-first services to the federal workforce during her two years as CIO o...
Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, announced on Tuesday that Steve Schorer, chairman and CEO of Alion Science and Technology, has received his second Wash100 Award. Previously, Schorer was recognized as a 2018 Wash100 Award recipient, ...
Five former government officials with military and intelligence leadership experience have joined the 2021 class of advisory board members at Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial analytics company HawkEye 360. HawkEye 360 said Tuesday its newly appointed advisers are Kevin Chilton, a retired U.S. Air Force general; Scott Swift, a retired U.S. Navy adm...
Two Six Technologies has appointed government and industry leaders Mike Daniels, Tiffanny Gates, Charles Hooper and Michael McConnell to its board of directors to help drive the company’s strategic vision and advance the development of technology platforms for national security clients. Daniels, former chairman and CEO of Network Solutions, most r...
