Jeff Capponi, formerly a vice president at engineering company Senior PLC, has joined Cadence Aerospace to serve as senior VP of sales and marketing, and oversee brand awareness and develop promotional campaigns. Cadence, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, said Monday Capponi’s responsibilities are expected to support customer ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 28, 2021 — Chris Valentino, chief strategy officer at Peraton, has underscored the importance of the Department of Defense’s collaboration with the industry to support its Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 14. “[The industry can contribute by] helping to identify relev...
Rolls-Royce has won a potential 17-year, $2.6 billion contract to provide replacement engines for the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) B-52H Stratofortress bombers. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received four bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which has a base period of six years worth appr...
Joe Durbin, a seven-year senior program director at CSRA, which is now part of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was elevated to the role of account director at GD’s information technology business where he will be responsible for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-focused business activities. According to his LinkedIn profile, the CDC acco...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 27, 2021 — Kord Technologies, a KBR (NSYE: KBR) subsidiary, has completed a combat shoot-off at Fort Sill in Oklahoma as part of the Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense program, marking progress in its development of a directed energy system for U.S. Army, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 9. The demonstration showc...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has awarded prototype agreements worth $87.5 million combined to four companies to advance testing of next-generation rocket engines and improve the resiliency of upper stages, SpaceRef reported Friday. The command’s Launch Enterprise awarded the prototype projects to SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, R...
The Department of Homeland Security’s chief human capital officer will keynote an Oct. 7 virtual forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to give her perspective on the potential implications of a hybrid workforce model for government agencies. Angela Bailey was appointed to the DHS CHCO position in January 2016 after her two-year tenure as...
Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a $183 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to produce an aircraft computer interface designed to enable communications between multiple contrasting systems. The company will engineer and integrate tactical mission systems in an effort to help special forces implement the system-of-systems interface, ...
Karman Missile & Space Systems, a portfolio company of Trive Capital, has acquired Systima Technologies for an undisclosed sum to expand its client base and core competencies to facilitate the delivery of comprehensive platforms to clients in hypersonic and space markets. Systima provides energetic systems for space launch vehicles and hypersoni...
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. has received a potential five-year, $121 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Missile Defense Agency for weapon system-related research, development and engineering efforts. The nonprofit organization at Georgia Institute of Technology will conduct R&D work focused on airborne-base...
