Four companies have received separate contracts worth a combined $103.4 million over five years to support spaceflight and aircraft management systems at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. The Mission Enabling Services Contract consists of five individual contracts that are divided into three work segments, intended to primarily support the...
James Myers, a retired U.S. Army colonel, has joined Applied Research Associates as vice president of program innovation and growth. In this capacity, he will seek defense-related opportunities and programs to enable ARA to deliver novel platforms for national security applications, the company said Tuesday. Myers “is the right person at the right...
Brent Abbott, a three-decade business development strategist in the space industry, has been appointed chief revenue officer at Rogue Space Systems. He will oversee the company’s defense and commercial sales, customer experience and marketing efforts as CRO, Rogue Space said Wednesday. Abbott previously served as CEO of NanoAvionics U.S. and helpe...
Tim Schmitt, chief development officer at Parsons (NYSE: PSN), will join the company’s executive leadership team on Aug. 1. He will continue to serve in his current role while overseeing the Centreville, Virginia-based technology services contractor’s mergers and acquisitions program, strategy and market research initiatives, Parsons said Tuesda...
Arati Prabhakar, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If confirmed, Prabhakar will serve as Biden’s chief adviser for science and technology, a co-chair of the presidentâ...
Jay Atkinson, formerly director and assistant general counsel for mergers and acquisitions at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been promoted to vice president and general counsel of the company’s Electric Boat subsidiary. Atkinson announced his new position in a LinkedIn post published Monday. He joined the Reston, Virginia-based government co...
A new McAleese & Associates report indicates that defense stock prices have spiked 18 percent to 20 percent year-to-date and outperformed the S&P 500 as sector investors react to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, noted investors see a 10 percent spike in Depar...
Software startup Epsilon3 has secured $15 million in a round of Series A financing led by Lux Capital and will use the investment to expand its line of space project management platforms, SpaceNews reported Monday. Epsilon3 offers a web-based platform that offers collaboration tools customized for spacecraft manufacturing and operations and seeks to...
GovCon Expert David Egts, chief technologist and senior director of the Office of the Chief Technologist for Red Hat’s North America Public Sector, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding the current administration’s Executive Order on transforming the federal customer experience and what it means for government agencies and the systems int...
James Arko, a nearly three-decade industry veteran, has assumed the chief operating officer role at Alexandria Virginia-based company Technical and Project Engineering. Arko is responsible for managing corporate administrative functions within TAPE’s portfolio of training and readiness, technology and knowledge-based services, the woman-owned ...
