BAE Systems will continue to supply military-code GPS receiver technology to the Department of Defense and its international allies under a $316 award from the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA exercised an option on a multiyear contract awarded to the company’s U.S. subsidiary in May to procure Modernized GPS User Equipment Increment 1 Common GPS...
Chris Fall, former director at the Department of Energy’s science office, has joined Mitre as vice president of applied sciences for the nonprofit corporation’s research and development organization. He will oversee Mitre Labs’ R&D programs that explore quantum computing, synthetic biology, space, material science and other eme...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will develop a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support research and development work on renewable power. The supercomputer called Kestrel will support energy programs related to security, storage, community transitions, energy justice, systems integrati...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received an $80.5 million task order to help a U.S. Navy warfare center develop mission technology to defend manned and unmanned aircraft platforms from drone threats. The company said Wednesday it will perform research, development and analysis work for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, to update ...
James Geurts, former acquisition chief of the U.S. Navy and a previous Wash100 awardee, and 35-year Air Force veteran Joseph Reynes, Jr. have been named advisory board members of technology company Epirus. They joined the board as Epirus aims to introduce technologies designed to help public and private sector clients to defend against electronic an...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 1, 2021 — Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business has received a Missile Defense Agency award to participate in a program focused on the development and demonstration of a hypersonic missile interceptor meant to counter threats in the glide phase of flight, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 22. ̶...
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) has closed its approximately $161.2 million cash-and-stock purchase of exactEarth, a provider of satellite data products and services to the global maritime sector. Vienna, Virginia-based Spire first announced the deal in September, which marks its first acquisition after going public in mid-August, and the company said Tue...
President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...
Robert Lightfoot, vice president of operations at Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space business area, has been promoted to lead the segment as executive vice president. He will assume his new position on Jan. 1 and replace Rick Ambrose, who intends to retire in March after a more-than-20-year career at Lockheed and will support transition effor...
James Hannah, formerly chief information officer and vice president of enterprise information technology services at General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) IT arm, took on a new role as global CIO of the GDIT business, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. He succeeds Kristie Grinnell, who stepped down from her post to pursue a new opportunity in...
