Alcoa‘s defense unit landed a five-year contract worth up to $50 million from the U.S. Army for research and development of “light-weighting” technology for ground vehicles. The Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center authorities awarded the Ground Vehicle Light-Weighting contract to Alcoa Defense to support Defense Department ground systems R&D and engineering efforts, Alcoa said Thursday. […] More

Lockheed Martin has awarded a potential nine-year, $1.1 billion subcontract to Alcoa for titanium plate and billet components on the F-35 fighter jet from 2016 to 2024. Lockheed will use the titanium build the airframe structures for F-35 variants such as the conventional takeoff and landing aircraft, short takeoff/vertical landing aircraft and the carrier variant, Alcoa said […] More

Olivier Jarrault, who led Albany International for nearly two years as president and CEO, joined the board of directors at aircraft components and support services provider Cadence Aerospace.

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Kirsten Nielsen, former director of investor relations at global engineering and manufacturing company Arconic, has joined Cubic as vice president of investor relations. She will be responsible for implementing Cubic’s investor relations program that covers strategic positioning, messaging and communications functions, the company said Monday. Nielsen served as corporate development manager for Alcoa prior to renaming itself […] More

Joseph Castro, a senior vice president and general manager for outside continental U.S. markets at Tribalco, has taken the additional role as head of the Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology and telecommunications services provider’s CONUS business operations. Castro will be responsible for sales and delivery operations of the firm’s Americas division in addition to overseeing business […] More

Talha Zobair, formerly senior tax counsel and director of global taxes at Raytheon, has joined Northrop Grumman as vice president of tax. Zobair will report to James Palmer, corporate vice president and chief financial officer, and start in the tax VP role on Aug. 18, Northrop said Monday. “I am pleased Talha is joining the Northrop Grumman […] More