IBM (NYSE: IBM) has hired seven former military and government officials and industry veterans to serve as partners on its Washington, D.C.-based federal global business services team. The company said Monday the key additions reflect its commitment to helping federal agencies advance information technology modernization efforts. Brian Davis, a reti...
Michael Witt, formerly a corporate director at chemical company Dow, will officially join Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) on Aug. 9 to serve as vice president and chief sustainability officer. He will oversee Northrop’s carbon reduction activities, resource efficiency efforts and other initiatives aimed to promote environmental sustainability, th...
Tom Vice, a three-decade veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed CEO of Sierra Nevada Corp.‘s subsidiary that focuses on building space platforms for both the government and commercial sectors. He joins Sierra Space as the company aims to launch the Dream Chaser spaceplane on its first cargo delivery mission to the Internat...
Mark Bendza, former head of investor relations at Honeywell International (Nasdaq: HON), has joined cybersecurity services provider Telos (Nasdaq: TLS) as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He replaces Michele Nakazawa, who has held the CFO role over the past 17 years and will remain part of Telos’ senior executive team to e...
Johns Hopkins University will provide technology research and development services to the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear enterprise under a potential 10-year, $530 million contract. USAF issued a $23.7 million task order for the Maryland-based university to conduct R&D efforts associated with the branch’s future Ground-Based Strategic Dete...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and NASA have finalized a potential $935 million contract to build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost module for the agency’s Gateway lunar space station as part of the Artemis program. Northrop said Friday it will also integrate the HALO module with the Power and Propulsion Element being developed by Maxar Technolog...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a potential 18-year, $3.86 billion contract to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the ground subsystems of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system. The AF Nuclear Weapons Center received two offers for the program covering software maintenance, system engineering, test and assessment, modificatio...
Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO of Peraton, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most esteemed and respected award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson last week during a recent visit to the company’s office. This marks the fourth consecutive year and fifth overall that Stu Shea has...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected three teams of researchers led by BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) to produce low-latency, low-power, event-based infrared cameras as part of the Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics program. “Event-based cameras operate under ...
Stu Shea, president, CEO and board chairman of Peraton and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the acquisitions of Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) federal information technology and mission support business and Perspecta were the driving forces behind Peraton’s transformation into a next-generation national security company that supports federa...
