The U.S. Space Force plans to solicit industry offers to develop two Mobile User Objective System spacecraft in early 2023 as part of efforts to extend the life of the MUOS satellite constellation, C4ISRNET reported Friday. Barbara Baker, deputy program executive officer for Space Systems Command’s military satellite communications and positioning...
Wood Parker, former president of the Northrop Grumman IT sector’s Federal Enterprise Solutions business unit, was chosen in 2005 as the Technology Good Scout Award recipient from the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Parker joined the private sector after two decades of service in the U.S. Navy. His industry career...
Wes Bush, former CEO of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed a member of the board of directors and an adviser at venture capital firm Red Cell Partners. Red Cell said Friday his addition to the board to extend the company’s defense sector connection and increase its ability to bring new technology to the...
Swami Swaminathan has been promoted to the chief executive officer role at Reli Group, where he formerly served as a chief information officer for more than five years. Swaminathan, who has also served as acting CEO since July, will be responsible for overseeing Reli’s delivery and operational areas in his full-time position, the health infor...
Bill Bodie, a more-than-three-decade defense and civil engineering industry veteran, has been appointed senior director of development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, GovCon Wire has learned. Bodie most recently served as development director at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and was a visiting fellow at th...
Heidi Hendrix, a former human resources executive at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s space subsidiary as chief people officer. She will directly report to Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice and oversee efforts to build a team of professionals through the company’s facilities in Louisville, Colorado, the spacecraft a...
The Department of Defense continues to issue accelerated payments meant to help defense contractors withstand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic even after the White House declared the health crisis over, Bloomberg reported Monday. In March 2020, DOD issued a memo that increases the progress payment rates for large businesses from 80 percent to 90...
Todd Borkey, most recently chief technology officer at HII’s (NYSE: HII) Mission Technologies division, has assumed the role of executive vice president and CTO of the Newport News, Virginia-based defense and technology services contractor. He will report directly to HII President and CEO Christopher Kastner and oversee research and development an...
David Bradley, program director at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business since June 2021, has been promoted to a vice president position within the same unit. The 34-year industry veteran will be responsible for strategy and business development functions related to GDMS’ space and intelligence systems portfolio, accordin...
Shawn Purvis, president and CEO of QinetiQ Group’s U.S. subsidiary, accepted her 2022 Wash100 Award, the most significant award of consequence to the government contracting community, during a recent visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson to the company’s office in Lorton, VA. “Shawn Purvis has distinguished herself through a leaders...
