Mo Hessabi, former senior vice president for growth at MetroStar, has been named chief operating officer of the Reston, Virginia-based digital services and management consulting company. He oversees the firm’s growth operations that include capture, proposal and business development functions, according to his official bio on MetroStar’s...
Raja Maharajh, most recently chief of staff to Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) Chairman and CEO Greg Hayes, has been appointed general counsel of the Waltham, Massachusetts-based defense and aerospace company. He succeeds Frank Jimenez and will oversee legal and regulatory functions that include corporate governance and transactions, litigation, c...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has won a potential nine-year, $225.5 million contract to perform mission assurance support work for a U.S. Space Force program that provides full launch service capability to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. ASRC Federal Space & Defense will help the military branch engineer, integrate, verify and...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum on Tuesday, during which prominent leaders in the public and private sectors spoke on the advanced technologies, areas of interest and urgent challenges impacting procurement and acquisition strategies within the Department of Defense as well as how industry can help drive innov...
CEOs from six cryptocurrency companies testified before the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday calling on Congress to come up with clearer and bespoke regulations on the virtual currency, Reuters reported. “Without tailored legislative solutions that are openly debated with public participation, the United States risks unnecessarily ...
On Tuesday, GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum, which featured leaders across defense agencies, military branches and industry who joined in dynamic discussion to share the procurement interests, technology influences and strategic priorities driving acquisitions across the defense sector as agencies work to acceler...
Paeonian Springs, Virginia-based navigation and sensor module provider Inertial Labs has acquired Memsense, which develops inertial measurement units designed for aerospace and defense platforms. Inertial Labs said the combined entity aims to introduce new products in the areas of GPS-denied navigation, industrial machines and autonomy. The two comp...
Chuck Hicks, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at NCI, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. He talked about fostering partnerships and NCI’s growth through contract awards, the technological innovation and AI implementation challenges as well as the company’s accompl...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Amentum a $461.8 million contract to run the Bahamas-based Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, which provides a testing environment for military maritime warfare research. Six proposals were submitted to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport Division for the AUTEC operation and maintenance contract, the Depart...
Philip Perconti, former top science and technology executive within the U.S. Army, has joined Leonardo DRS as chief technology officer. He will oversee the Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor’s corporate strategy for research and development, advance innovation and broaden partnerships to facilitate the development of integrated techn...
