Brandi Smith, a two-decade shipbuilding industry veteran, has been promoted to vice president of the Columbia-class program at HII’s (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division. Smith, who serves as construction program director for the Columbia-class submarine, will assume her new position on June 1 and succeed Charles Southall, who will retir...
John Roth, an aerospace industry veteran, has joined AAR Corp. as vice president of business development for the company’s government services business, according to his LinkedIn post. He most recently served as director of strategy and business development for the Future Programs at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and previously held a similar r...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has promoted 13-year company veteran Lucas Firliet to director of information technology within its defense systems business sector. The former automation and controls engineering manager wrote in a LinkedIn post that he will support the segment’s digital transformation efforts in his new position. Firliet started ...
James Fraley, former senior director of McAfee Enterprise Solutions, has been appointed senior vice president and chief scientist at Reston Virginia-based information technology services provider Pragmatics. The two-decade cybersecurity professional will lead Pragmatics’ efforts to develop product and service offerings and expand its cus...
Demetrias Rodgers, former Commonwealth of Virginia technology executive, has joined Planet Technologies as chief technology officer for state and local government and education and commercial operations. He will provide strategic leadership as the company delivers technology platforms and services to defense industrial base, SLED and commercial clie...
Eight awardees will continue to provide professional management and technical services to support the U.S. Navy’s cyberspace operations under a $231.2 million contract option. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific exercised the first option period on a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with an $802 million cei...
Kenneth “Kenny” Robinson, a more than 14-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been promoted to vice president and chief diversity officer. His promotion is effective May 31 and he will hold the additional title of president at Northrop’s philanthropic organization, the company said Tuesday. Robinson will succeed Sandra Evers-M...
Technology industry veterans Michael Miller, Jim Keenan, Anna Levine and Cindy Brent have joined Red Hat’s public sector team as the software provider focuses on helping government customers navigate their transition to hybrid and multicloud environments. Miller, formerly head of the federal team at Veeam Government Solutions, has been named vice ...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) have submitted a joint proposal to the Space Development Agency to compete for a contract to manage and operate a $1.8 billion constellation of Transport Layer Tranche 1 satellites in low-Earth orbit, SpaceNews reported Saturday. In January, SDA issued a solicitation for the “gr...
Henry Choi, a three-decade government services industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of business development for cyber, electronic warfare and space at HII’s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division. He will oversee business growth, customer engagement and strategic functions in his new position, the company said Friday. Choi previo...
