Serco Group’s North American subsidiary has appointed former Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) executive Gator Harvey as vice president of transportation and homeland security services. He will be responsible for Serco Inc.’s operations and business development strategies in emergency management, fleet, aviation and intelligent transport serv...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a five-year, $405.7 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide engineering services in support of intelligence activities at the Department of Defense and intelligence community centers and satellite branches. The company will also perform operational technical work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee t...
A new McAleese & Associates report shows defense prime contractors recorded a 3 percent increase in sales during the third quarter of 2022 and sector operating margin of 11 percent. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, offered an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Air Force have introduced the B-21 Raider long-range strike bomber plane as part of the country’s nuclear triad meant to deter potential adversaries. B-21 is a sixth-generation aircraft that is backed by a digital ecosystem and comes with stealth capabilities and open systems architecture to facilitate...
The State Department has approved Qatar’s request to purchase a suite of systems designed to recognize and mitigate drone threats, as part of a potential $1 billion foreign military sales deal with the U.S. government. Qatar seeks to buy 10 units of the Fixed Site-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System and 200...
Alberto Conti, former director of new business and innovation solutions at Ball Aerospace‘s civil space business, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the unit. The promotion expands Conti’s previous responsibilities to include strategic planning with sector customers and stakeholders over mission priorities and nex...
Tom Gentile, president and CEO of Spirit AeroSystems, and Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, have been elected to serve as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2023. Eric Fanning, a previous Wash100 awardee, will continu...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a $156.7 million task order to update the U.S. Army’s fleet of UH-60V Black Hawk helicopters. The company said Monday it will work with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to come up with recommendations and technical platforms for the utility helicopter project office at the Army’s program executive office aviation and...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will manufacture and deliver active electronically scanned array radars to the U.S. Air Force for its F-16 Fighting Falcon jets under a $99.3 million contract modification. The Department of Defense said Monday the service branch exercises an option from the original contract to purchase 42 production radars as well as o...
Space Systems Command has released a new request for proposals for the Sounding Rocket Program-4 contract to expand the pool of vendors that could provide suborbital launch support for payloads and flight hardware and perform technical and concept analyses to facilitate the launch of space assets in support of research and development programs. Inte...
