General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has appointed Robert Helm, Thomas Kirchmaier and Elizabeth Schmid to new positions, effective April 1. Helm, senior vice president for planning and development, will serve as special adviser to the CEO and will continue to support strategic initiatives of the company, General Dynamics said Friday. Kirchmaie...
Robert Cleave, a 13-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and founder of satellite operator Xtar, has been named chief revenue officer of space launch company Vector. He will lead a line of business as well as budgeting, customer acquisition and partnership efforts in his new position, Vector said Thursday. The three-d...
Textron (NYSE: TXT) closed its acquisition of Waterboro, Maine-based robotic ground vehicle maker Howe & Howe Technologies on Dec. 17, Defense News reported Thursday. Textron announced its intent to buy Howe & Howe in October 2018 in a push to expand its autonomous technology offerings across land, air and maritime d...
Thomas Gillespie, director of the Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers, has provided the agency with strategic studies and built communities of interest in areas of critical importance, including cyber operations, weapon systems and homeland defense. In September, DoD signed 15 companies to a potential nine-year, $28B contract for tech...
Information technology trade group CompTIA has expanded its public sector practice through its merger with the Public Technology Institute in an effort to facilitate collaboration between industry and local government officials. CompTIA said Tuesday it will incorporate PTI™s corporate members into its State & Local Government and Educa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 9, 2018 ” Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has said commercial software development could be a key focus of the Department of Defense in 2019 as it works to accelerate weapons systems procurement, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “Focusing on commerci...
Kelly Nelson, a 19-year ViON veteran, has been named vice president of business operations at the Herndon, Va.-based cloud service provider. Nelson will focus on enhancing the sales organization throughout ViON by supporting the entire sales lifecycle, billing and working with suppliers to ensure customers receive everything they need, ViON said Tue...
Cadence Aerospace, a portfolio company of investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has named former Pratt & Whitney executive Kevin Martin as chief information officer. The more than 30-year industry veteran most recently served as associate director of military engines business development at the United Technologies Corp....
Carter Smith, former director of business development at Pyramid Systems and BruinWave Solutions, has taken the same role at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, G2XChange ETC reported Tuesday. He previously served as an account executive for homeland security and public safety at Allegis Group̵...
Six companies have won potential five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-delivery contracts to provide program and technical support services to the Federal Highway Administration‘s Office of Policy. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says contractors will perform research efforts to support the development of transportation trend analysis p...
