BAE Systems‘ land and armaments unit has won a seven-year, $278.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce a modernized ground vehicle designed to operate in the Arctic region and other extreme cold weather environments. The Beowulf amphibious tracked platform won the Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicle competition to replace the branch’s...
Michelle Kruger, a 25-year veteran of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has joined Austal’s ship manufacturing business in the U.S. to serve as vice president of global services and support. Austal USA said Monday that Kruger will lead worldwide post-delivery repair and warranty programs, business development efforts and partnership strategies in her n...
Gary Lac, a two-decade biometrics and identity management industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of solutions development at the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese information technology company NEC Corp. He will oversee NEC Corporation of America products across digital services, national security and state and local government verticals, the...
Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business, was presented with his 2022 Wash100 Award by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to the company’s office in Arlington, VA. Executive Mosaic is honored to recognize Roy Azevedo as a three-time Wash100 Award recipient, for driving business...
Five contractors will compete for task orders under a potential 11-year, $4.8 billion multiple award contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide National Air and Space Intelligence Center with capability support services. Altamira Technologies, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Modern Technology Solutions Inc., Radiance Technologies and Xandar were selecte...
Mustafa Veziroglu, former chief operating officer of CACI International’s (NYSE: CACI) SA Photonics subsidiary, has been named president of Mynaric (Nasdaq: MYNA) and member of the laser communication equipment manufacturer’s management board. He will be based at Mynaric’s headquarters in Munich, Germany, and oversee product develo...
Michelle Howell, a two-decade human resources professional in the defense industry, has been named chief HR officer at Alexandria, Virginia-based government contractor Systems Planning and Analysis. She will be responsible for overseeing SPA’s talent attraction, retention and development functions across three continents, the company said Wednesda...
Michael Adams, director of sales at Carahsoft, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. The Q&A focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning, the growing use cases that led to more vendors joining the AI space as well as how Carahsoft’s practice has grown over the years. Here’s an excerpt fro...
AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) has purchased Planck Aerosystems for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to drive the development of autonomy capabilities for its unmanned aircraft platforms. San Diego-based Planck is a small technology firm founded in 2014 and has worked with clients from the Department of Defense, allied governments and security ag...
The Federal Aviation Administration has begun to solicit information on potential industry sources that could meet the requirements of the second iteration of the Enterprise Programs, Infrastructure and Communications Services contract. The EPICS II contract will provide services in support of the FAA’s Communications, Infrastructure and Network P...
