A team of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $985.3 million contract to build and demonstrate an air-launched, scramjet-powered weapon system designed to operate at a speed greater than Mach 5. The service branch is obligating $100 million for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile procurement effor...
Mary Petryszyn, corporate vice president and president of the defense systems sector at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), intends to retire on Jan. 13, 2023, after a decadelong career at the company. Northrop said Thursday its board of directors chose Roshan Roeder, VP and general manager of the airborne multifunction sensors division under the mission ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has agreed to share data with the U.S. Air Force related to the ongoing development of the B-21 Raider Long Range Strike Bomber and its virtual model. Under a signed agreement, USAF will have access to common data environments, including a cloud-based platform that houses a suite of ground systems data...
The Department of the Air Force has selected five companies to be part of an industry consortium that will define future requirements and develop the digital infrastructure for the Advanced Battle Management System. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Science App...
Biggs Porter, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), will retire in 2023 and hold a consulting role after his retirement until March 2024 to help with the transition. Maxar said Thursday it has begun its search for Porter’s successor in the CFO role. Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will develop and maintain a software suite for the U.S. Marine Corps’ command and control personal computer and tactical service-oriented architecture systems under a potential five-year, $75.6 million contract. The company will perform technical support work for C2PC and TSOA platforms, which the military branch u...
Robert “Bob” Huebner, a former executive at Akima and a nearly 15-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has joined ASRC Federal‘s defense and intel operating group as vice president of business development. He will be responsible for overseeing BD and strategic capture teams and expanding the company’s presence in the...
Joseph Chontos, acting general counsel at Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings (NYSE: AJRD), has been promoted to the positions of vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Chontos will oversee the El Segundo, California-headquartered aerospace and defense company’s legal, ethics, regulatory and international trade compliance functions, ...
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW) will supply generators to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) for use on the latter’s work in support of the U.S. Navy’s next generation Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program. Deliveries will be made under recently awarded contracts worth potentially $120 million, the Davidson, North Carolina-based aerospa...
Bill Weber, former president and CEO of KeyW, has assumed the CEO role at Texas-based space transportation developer Firefly Aerospace. He will lead Firefly’s next phase of expansion and take over for Peter Schumacher, who has held the chief executive role in an interim capacity since July, the company said Thursday. An aerospace and defense...
