Frontier Technology Inc. has appointed technical and industry leader Lincoln Hudson as chief operations officer in a series of leadership appointments aimed at strengthening its technology and service offerings across the Navy, space and cybersecurity areas in support of customers within the Department of Defense and intelligence community. Hudson, who joined FTI in 2023, brings to the role over 25 years of experience providing support for DOD, the company said Wednesday.

Defense technology company Reticulate Micro has unveiled a new business segment focused on delivering multiorbit satellite communications management technology systems to government and commercial customers. David Horton, a U.S. Air Force and industry veteran, has been appointed president of the newly formed segment Reticulate Space in a string of leadership moves, the company said Tuesday.

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business used an MQ-20 Avenger unmanned aircraft to demonstrate its open standards-based autonomy architecture for unmanned combat air vehicles and a U.S. government-owned communications capability, dubbed Waveform X, during a flight test in November. The live test flight held at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.’s flight operations facility in El Mirage, California, used three L3Harris Technologies-built software-defined radios to support command and control, line of sight and data movement capabilities through the nonproprietary Waveform X platform, the company said Tuesday.

Matthew Covington, a supply chain executive, has assumed the role of vice president of program management and supply chain at CAES. He is a thought leader who brings to the role his expertise and knowledge of supply chain, finance, program management, engineering and contracts.

Evercore, a New York-based global independent investment banking advisory firm, has released a monthly update highlighting previous and ongoing transactions it has supported in the aerospace, defense and government services markets. According to the report, a copy of which was received by Executive Mosaic, Evercore advised several aerospace and defense clients on mergers and acquisitions, including Aerojet Rocketdyne on its $4.7 billion sale to L3Harris Technologies.

Experienced contracts executive Heather Gerczak has been elevated from her prior role as senior vice president of business operations at Integral Federal to the organization’s chief administrative officer. In her new position, Gerczak, who also serves as chair of the contracts group of Executive Mosaic’s elite 4x24 Leadership Series, will be senior-most authority on human resources, administration, facilities management, marketing and contracts and security, the Rockville, Maryland-based company said Tuesday.

L3Harris Technologies company Aerojet Rocketdyne has signed a 10-year public-private partnership agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division to increase solid rocket motor production for national defense applications. "Working in coordination with our government partners, we’re increasing our production capability to meet today’s growing demand and to prepare for any surge in support of near peer conflicts," Ross Niebergall, president of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said in a statement published Monday.

Bombardier Defense secured a U.S. Army contract in December to provide a Global 6500 aircraft in support of prototyping efforts under the service branch's High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System program. The firm-fixed-price contract awarded by Army Contracting Command includes options for two additional aircraft over a period of three years, the service said Wednesday.

Jeff Siino, formerly vice president of strategy and growth at Parry Labs, has joined Titusville, Florida-based A2G International as VP of operations, according to a recently published LinkedIn post. Siino's other prior employers include L3Harris Technologies, North American Surveillance Systems and MAG Aerospace.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened a modernized facility in support of the LGM-35A Sentinel Program. The L3Harris Technologies company said Thursday that with Aerojet’s capital investment and the facility’s opening, the Sentinel hardware fabrication facility is now available for the final assembly of the Sentinel Post Boost Propulsion System.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies subsidiary, has opened a new laboratory at its Camden, Arkansas, site to expand its solid rocket motor materials chemical testing capabilities supporting defense programs. The Camden laboratory provides 5,200 square feet of space to enable the company to move pressurized gas cylinders manually, install additional tensile testing stations and add an upgraded ventilation system for better airflow, L3Harris said Monday.