Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, head of the F-35 joint program office at the Department of Defense, said DOD could be ready to enter into a performance-based logistics contract with Lockheed Martin for the fighter jet program once the recently signed agreement for F-35 sustainment support services expires in fiscal year 2023, Defense News reported Thursday. […] More

Maximus announced Friday that its board of directors has unanimously elected John Haley to serve as chair and Anne Altman to work as vice chair alongside Wash100 awardee Richard Montoni. Haley previously served as a director at Maximus from 2002 to 2019 and rejoined the board in 2020. He brings deep knowledge of Maximus and […] More

Nick Chaffey, Northrop Grumman‘s chief executive for the U.K., Europe and the Middle East, has said that the company’s planned partnership with Leonardo will focus on “the future of autonomous, unproved rotary systems” meant for the military and civilian customers to pursue opportunities in the mentioned sectors, Defense News reported Thursday. The companies will combine […] More

The Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Research Laboratory has opened a new field office in Colorado as the organization looks to establish a presence in the aerospace hub. The office will host staff members tasked to directly engage with stakeholders in Colorado Springs, including government contractors and U.S. Space Force commands, amid increasing interest in space, […] More

L3Harris Technologies has expanded its very small aperture terminal offerings with the introduction of a new portable satellite communications terminal developed to provide warfighters with internet, command and control, communications, computers, cyber. defense, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and video transfer capabilities across the globe. The Hawkeye 4 Lite VSAT has a carbon fiber 1.3m segmented […] More

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 7, 2021 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has named Todd Borkey chief technology officer and Chris Bishop as chief growth officer of the military shipbuilder’s technical solutions division after it closed the acquisition of Alion Science and Technology, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 26. “Alion is a perfect complement to our […] More

BlueHalo has demonstrated its Group 1 unmanned aerial systems as part of a Defense Innovation Unit project that seeks domestically produced small UAS options for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. The company said Thursday it met DIU’s preflight, mission planning and launch requirements during the initial demonstration of five drone platforms that […] More

Mantech International has secured a 10-year, $476 million prime contract award to support the space launch programs of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, formerly the Space and Missile Center. The company said Tuesday it will provide launch service integration, fleet surveillance and certification and other engineering services in support of space and missile […] More

Geoffrey Hitchcock, former vice president of sales and business development at Vantage Robotics, has been named senior vice president of global defense solutions at drone software provider Red Cat Holdings. He will be responsible for identifying business opportunities for the Golden Eagle unmanned aircraft system in the military sector and exploring potential public safety applications […] More

Robert Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said he believes cyber is the primary challenge facing federal agency chief information officers and chief information security officers when it comes to managing and securing data in a hybrid cloud environment. “So to wrap a coherent security architecture around the disparate […] More

Blair Duncan, former chief human capital officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been appointed as Golden Key Group‘s executive vice president of federal innovation and transformation. In this capacity, Duncan will drive business transformation initiatives aimed at supporting the workforce, modernization efforts of the federal government, the professional services firm said […] More

Day & Zimmermann plans to team up with an NIOA subsidiary, subject to the approvals of the U.S. government, to work on upcoming manufacturing projects and help support the Australian Defence Force. The family-owned supplier of construction, engineering and defense products and services said Saturday it will collaborate with Australian Missile Corp. in supporting the goal […] More