Michele Miller, senior director for tactical systems engineering at Ball Aerospace, has been promoted to serve as vice president of the company’s security and mission assurance unit. She succeeds Jeff Osterkamp, who retired from the company, Ball said Monday. Miller served as director of the missile defense systems group at Northrop Grumman (N...
BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) has appointed former U.S. military officers Joseph Kernan, John Mulholland and Michael Dickey to the company’s newly formed advisory group. They will advise the BlackSky leadership on business growth, technology investment and partnership matters, the geospatial services provider said Monday. Kernan, a retired Navy vice a...
Jason Weaver, chief solutions officer at SkyePoint Decisions for the last two years, has transitioned to a new role as chief technology officer of the Dulles, Virginia-based cybersecurity risk management services provider. He will be responsible for technical direction and the development of approaches to help clients address emerging cyber threats,...
Smart manufacturing has become a high priority focus area for the U.S. Intelligence Community on the cusp of what is being coined as an industrial intelligence revolution. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence listed “materials and manufacturing” as a tier 1 tech domain in its S&T Investment Landscape, which outlines the I...
Two Six Technologies has purchased River Loop Security, which specializes in technical services meant to help customers protect internet of things and embedded devices. The two companies previously collaborated on programs in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and aim to continue joint technology development efforts, Two Six sa...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released an annual report outlining NOAA’s 2021 accomplishments in research and development and one of those is the Future Seas project. The Future Seas project explored how climate change could impact West Coast fisheries using models and how fishing communities prepare for the effects of cl...
Innovative Defense Technologies has won a potential three-year, $98.6 million contract to provide software for distributed maritime operations to the U.S. Navy. IDT will use its prototype environment designed to accommodate software development and simultaneous monitoring of change-driven effects in the software’s physical and cyber aspects, t...
Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle, has been selected to receive a 2022 Wash100 Award for stewarding the nonprofit organization to position itself for annual revenue growth and its management role at eight of the 17 Department of Energy national laboratories. This marks Von Thaer’s fourth consecutive induction and seventh Wash100 win o...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received three separate multi-year contracts from the U.S. Navy for the development of space vehicle terminals, procurement of hardware for weapon replaceable assemblies and delivery of support services for a mine detection platform. The Department of Defense said Thursday Northrop will provide the Navy with Relay Gr...
Professional services firm cBEYONData has acquired Alta Via Consulting for an undisclosed sum to establish a combined entity that will provide enterprise resource planning, financial and data analytics platforms and services to federal government customers. The combined firm will operate with over 240 employees that are focused on delivering busines...
