Robert Cresanti, who has almost three decades of experience in private and public sectors, has joined Accenture as managing director to lead government relations activities in North America and to serve as head of the company’s global Government Relations Network. In his new role, Cresanti will report to Joel Unruch, Accenture general counsel and corporate secretary, […] More

Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the U.S. needs to increase its investments in advanced computing, including artificial intelligence and applications used to analyze large data volumes, in order to compete with China, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday. “If there were an area I would point to […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 14, 2021 — Red Hat has promoted Joe Sangiuliano to vice president of business development at the company's North American public sector business, transitioning from his most previous role as senior director of civilian sales within the same unit, GovCon Wire reported April 6.

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Northrop Grumman is planning to launch its second and latest satellite-servicing vehicle to geostationary orbit no earlier than July 31, NASA Spaceflight reported Friday.

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A robotic spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics business is slated to reposition Intelsat’s communications satellite back to its geosynchronous orbit by the end of the month, Breaking Defense reported Friday.

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Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics subsidiary plans to launch a space vehicle designed to service satellites in orbit and potentially extend their lifespan, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday.

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Joel Jackson, senior director of emerging product sales for Red Hat’s North America public sector group, said cloud, microservices and automation are among the modern software design’s building blocks that could reinforce federal information technology modernization efforts, Federal News Network reported Monday.

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Joe Martore, president and CEO of Calibre Systems, has received the GovCon Executive of the Year award from the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Services Council. The recognition was given at the 15th Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards, which honors individuals and businesses in the Washington area’s government contracting community, Calibre said Friday. Martore […] More

Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 joint program office, has said a $60 million contract awarded to Lockheed Martin would support the second phase of the Blueprint for Affordability program in an effort to cut the production costs of the F-35 fighter jet, Defense News reported Wednesday. The U.S. Navy on Monday awarded the $60 […] More

Dan Belanger, newly appointed head of sales for North America at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has named several executives to his newly formed management team to oversee the company’s North American sales operations, CRN reported Friday. Terry Richardson, vice president and general manager of U.S. channel sales for HPE’s enterprise group, will serve as head of […] More

Former EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci has been elected to the board of directors at communications technology and services provider Motorola Solutions. He currently serves as co-CEO and co-chairman of GTY Technology Holdings and previously held leadership positions at Wang Global and Unisys‘ information systems business, Motorola said Monday. Tucci has led EMC and its market expansion initiatives […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s Amherst Systems subsidiary has supplied Saab with a combat electromagnetic environment simulator to aid in testing of the Gripen JAS 39 fighter aircraft in Sweden. Northrop said Wednesday the CEESIM system is equipped with an advanced pulse generator and designed to generate digital models of active electronically scanned array antennas. Saab will use the simulator to test the company’s Gripen multirole […] More