Shawn Purvis, a more than 25-year defense and intelligence industry veteran and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, will assume the dual role of president and CEO at QinetiQ Group’s U.S. arm on Feb. 16. She will oversee the operations of QinetiQ US and help the company pursue growth as a provider of defense and security...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 30, 2021 — Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has demonstrated air to surface mission computer and sensors of its new anti-access/area denial missile using the CRJ-700 aircraft as the testbed, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 22. Mary Petryszyn, president of Northrop’s defense systems business and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2021 — A team from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has completed the system requirements review of the Next Generation Interceptor under a Missile Defense Agency contract awarded in March, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 21. The NGI team will now proceed to initial system design, additional...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $1.38 billion contract to produce a system the U.S. Army intends to use for detecting and tracking enemy missiles and other airborne threats. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the Integrated Battle Command System production contract via the internet, the Department of Defense said Thursd...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $353.6 million contract modification to provide manufacture three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for the French navy as part of a foreign military sales deal. This award comes one year after France signed a letter of offer and acceptance with the U.S. Navy to procure the modernized command and...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $41.2 million contract to produce and test an unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator for the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded project. The company will help DARPA build a full-scale long-endurance UUV system under the cost-plus-fixed-fee Manta Ray Phase 2 contract, the Depart...
Matthew Bromberg, most recently president of the military engines business at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary, has been appointed to serve as corporate vice president of global operations at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). He will assume his new position on Feb. 16 and will oversee Northrop’s programs, quality, su...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will deliver repairable spare items for common electronic communication equipment and parts to the U.S. Navy and Japan under a potential $53.9 million award from the Defense Logistics Agency. The Department of Defense said Friday the firm-fixed-price delivery order was awarded against a seven-year contract for defense lo...
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2022. He will also serve on the association’s executive committee along with Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile, who is set...
Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and a six-time Wash100 Award winner, discussed the company’s involvement in the modernization of two components of the nuclear triad and one of the programs she talked about is the B-21 bomber. She told CNBC in a video interview posted Friday that the company...
