Paul Damphousse, a 22-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former chief of advanced concepts in the Department of Defense’s National Security Space Office, has joined Spire Global as senior director of national security business development for its federal group. He brings three decades of leadership experience in the strategic business developm...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the speeches of Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Will Roper, the service™s acquisition chief, at an Air Force Association symposium that kicked off Thursday in Orlando, Fla. Wilson discussed the need for the service to dominate time, space and ...
Timothy Dills, the former president of Scitor, has been named president and CEO of space systems technology developer LinQuest. He will work in LinQuest’s Chantilly, Va., office and will lead corporate development strategy aimed at identifying new business opportunities, expanding customer base, attracting talent and increasing stakehol...
Keith Zecchini, formerly a corporate vice president and chief information officer of AECOM (NYSE: ACM), has been named chief technology officer of architecture, engineering and geospatial services provider Woolpert. He brings more than two decades of information technology management experience to his new role and will oversee Woolpert’s techn...
Millennium Engineering and Integration has won a potential seven-year, $340M contract to help a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory directorate develop space technology concepts. Arlington, Va.-based MEI will support AFRL’s space vehicles directorate in development, analysis, integration, experimentation, demonstration and evaluation efforts, t...
American Type Culture Collection will continue to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update an inventory of viruses, bacteria and other reagents for future vaccine research-and-development programs under a potential 10-year, $319.3M contract. CDC announced the follow-on award in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday. Manassas, Va.-bas...
Two Battelle employees have helped the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases conduct training for local researchers and teams responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Battelle said Monday its staff took part in a 16-day program aimed to train Congolese researchers at the Institut National de Recherche Bio...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Tina Dolph, the president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, with her first Wash100 Award on Thursday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Dolph for her 20 years of leadership experience in government and efforts modernizing energy for multiple military facilities. We are honored to pre...
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has acquired a controlling interest in Florida Turbine Technologies for $60M in cash and stock and formed a new business unit as a result of the transaction. FTT will operate as part of the newly created Kratos Turbine Technologies division, which will focus on the development and manufa...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential five-year, $85.5M contract to support adaptive maintenance of nine applications for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The company said Thursday it will sustain legacy applications NGA analysts use to map imagery, manage structured observations and analyze data under the restructured follow-on S...
