Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has joined the board of directors of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). The 32-year Big Blue veteran has steered the technology company through market expansion initiatives across the areas of cloud and quantum computing, artificial intelligence and blockchain, Northrop said Wednesday. Krishna has serv...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) other transaction prototype agreement modifications to continue the development and refinement of the companies’ respective concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor. Both contractors will work to polish their prototypes for the â€...
The board of directors at Battelle has appointed Kirkland “Kirk” Donald, a 37-year U.S. Navy veteran, to succeed John Welch as chairman. Welch, who has held the chairman role since 2012, will retire from the nonprofit applied science and technology development company after 21 years of service, Battelle said Tuesday. Donald has served as...
The General Services Administration has posted a draft request for proposal for the follow-on to its One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contracting vehicle and is seeking industry comments to inform the development of the OASIS+ Program. The release moves the agency closer to launching the next generation acquisition vehicle for comple...
Amentum has received a five-year, $126 million contract task order to perform research, development, test and evaluation work in support of the U.S. Army combat systems modernization efforts. The award covering RDT&E services was made under a contract vehicle managed by the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center, the company said Tues...
John Ustica’s career with Siemens spans over two decades — a tenure whose length he sees as a strategic benefit in the government contracting landscape today. His previous posts at the technology and manufacturing company cover a wide range of roles from financial leadership to manufacturing plant management as he has moved up the ranks. ...
VTG has acquired Next Rev Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its multicloud and software development capabilities and client base with the addition of new Intelligence Community customers. VTG said Tuesday it expects to broaden its digital transformation and technical capabilities with the addition of Next Rev’s exper...
SpaceX has received a potential $1.15 billion contract modification from NASA to continue development work on its Starship human landing system and provide a second manned demonstration landing on the moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. NASA said Tuesday the Option B modification was awarded under the Next Space Technologies for Explorat...
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm focused on the aerospace and government markets, has wrapped up its acquisition of a majority stake in small satellite builder York Space Systems. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and AEI said Monday that York founder Dick Wallinger will stay as CEO while Chairman Charles Beames...
Barbara Graham, formerly a senior vice president at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) as VP and general manager of Navy and Marine Corps accounts within the information technology unit, according to a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. She has more than two decades of defense and intelligence sector experience acr...
