Bradford Powell, a defense industry veteran, has joined Ultra’s intelligence and communications business as president of the command, control and intelligence segment. He will directly report to Ultra I&C CEO Jon Rucker as he oversees the development and implementation of the company’s growth strategy and all business operations within C2I, ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) posted $9.6 billion in sales for the second quarter of 2023, up 9 percent from the prior-year period’s figure of $8.8 billion, and ended the quarter with a total backlog of $78.8 billion. The Falls Church, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor said Thursday its Q2 2023 net awards totaled $10.9 billion...
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will engineer systems for the U.S. Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missile system modernization program under a $165.9 million task order. Under the three-year award, APL will also continue to research and develop specialized functions to support the Sentinel weapon system, the Dep...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 11 teams from the commercial and academic sectors to kick off the preliminary phase of the Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing program. DARPA said Thursday the organizations will work on foundational research to help develop a center for producing 3D heterogeneously integrated mic...
Intel’s (Nasdaq: INTC) foundry business has added Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to the second phase of the Department of Defense’s Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes-Commercial program. Northrop and Boeing will join IBM (NYSE: IBM), NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) and other RAM...
Kathryn Simpson, vice president and associate general counsel of the mission systems sector at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been promoted to corporate VP and general counsel in a move that takes effect Oct. 30. She will take over the responsibility of overseeing Northrop’s legal affairs from the retiring Sheila Cheston and will report dir...
A General Atomics affiliate has secured an $82.6 million contract to continue into the next phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-backed program seeking an unmanned system designed to employ multiple air-to-air weapons. DARPA is obligating $24.5 million in fiscal 2023 research and development funds at the time of LongShot Phase III aw...
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX (NYSE: RTX), has promoted Amanda Sorensen to senior vice president of human resources, she announced in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday. Sorensen had been VP and chief HR officer of the company since April 2022, when the company was operating as Raytheon Intelligence & Space. Her career in human resources...
Tamim Aslamy, a more than two-decade defense market veteran, has assumed the chief financial officer role at Raytheon Solipsys, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary focused on developing command and control platforms for military and homeland security use. He announced his new role in a LinkedIn post Monday and comes to Solipsys from RTX, where he...
Amy Hart, a contract management professional with two decades of industry experience, has joined nonprofit engineering innovation company Draper as vice president of contracts. Hart will report directly to Draper President and CEO Jerry Wohletz and oversee contract life cycle management in her new position, the company said Tuesday. She has managed ...
