Dave Dzaran, the former CEO of Centauri and a two-decade U.S. Air Force veteran, has been appointed to the chief executive role at Danvers, Massachusetts-based technology and engineering services contractor Sumaria Systems. He will be responsible for driving Sumaria’s growth and sustaining a corporate culture centered around partners, customer...
LinQuest has acquired defense technology company Hellebore Consulting Group for an undisclosed sum to expand capabilities in support of digital transformation efforts of Air Force Materiel Command and other customers in Dayton, Ohio. Beavercreek, Ohio-based Hellebore was founded in 2018 and provides DevSecOps and software engineering services in sup...
BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services unit will continue to help the U.S. Air Force integrate hardware and software into Intercontinental Ballistic Missile systems under a $651.6 million contract modification. The two-year contract entails sustaining engineering support to the Minuteman III and Sentinel Systems Directorates, the Depar...
Michelle McCarthy, senior vice president and chief accounting officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), has been named interim chief financial officer at the Andover, Massachusetts-headquartered aerospace and defense electronics supplier. She will replace Michael Ruppert, who will step down as CFO on Feb. 17 after five years in the role, the compan...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Atom Computing and PsiQuantum to demonstrate concepts for designing quantum machines. The three companies were selected for the initial phase of the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program based on their proposed novel approaches to building ...
Research and development serves as the foundation for innovation across the United States, and the most recent federal budget reflects the importance of these efforts with a historical increase in R&D spending. However, as the speed of technological advancement increases and global competition puts pressure on the country, the R&D model must...
Marshall Denney, a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel, has joined Client Solution Architects, a provider of integrated technology platforms and operational support services to defense and federal government clients, as vice president of the company’s Navy business unit, GovCon Wire has learned. In this capacity, he will lead efforts to achieve the ...
Executive Mosaic is honored to announce Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner in recognition of his leadership strategy that works to sustain the company’s growth through innovation, major program wins and acquisitions. Krone, a 45-year GovCon industry veteran, has made all 10 classes of the Wash100 for his ...
Four companies have secured other transaction agreements worth a combined $24.25 million to offer commercially based variants of the U.S. Army’s Common Tactical Truck. Mack Defense, Navistar Defense, Oshkosh Defense and the American Rheinmetall Vehicles–GM Defense team will each submit three prototypes of the M915 Line Haul Tractor and M...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) venture capital arm has invested in Machina Labs, a Los Angeles-based manufacturing company that uses artificial intelligence and robotics to make advanced sheet metal products. Machina Labs said Thursday the money will support research and development and business growth efforts as well as advance the production ...
