Matt O’Neill, a 25-year U.S. Secret Service veteran, was appointed as a senior adviser at Aperio Global, where he will be responsible for spearheading domestic, international, and global investigative operation center initiatives, ExecutiveBiz has learned. O’Neill will collaborate with Aperio Global to enhance customers’ analytical capabilities and training programs to strengthen operational centers’ resilience and […] More

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense will work to increase its capacity to produce printed circuit board assemblies for use in hypersonic weapons after being awarded $11.7 million by the Department of Defense. The award is the latest issued within fiscal year 2024 by the Defense Production Act Investment Program, the Department of Defense said Friday.

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HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division started topside testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system on the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier. EMALS is designed to replace the steam catapults on the U.S. Navy's Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, can operate at a speed of more than 150 miles per hour and works to provide expanded operational capability, more accurate end-speed control and higher launch-energy capacity, HII said Wednesday.

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Matthew Ford, chief operating officer at iNovex, has assumed additional role as president of the Columbia, Maryland-based portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital. iNovex said Tuesday that with his dual hat, Ford has oversight of the company's operational execution, total team alignment and products and services delivery.

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James Crawford has been named president of Nordic Federal, a new business line of healthcare technology consulting company Nordic Consulting with a focus on U.S. government contracting. Crawford joins the company from medical solutions and services provider AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, where he served as executive vice president of corporate development and administration, Nordic Consulting said Thursday.

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Bechtel has poured molten test glass into the first stainless steel storage container designed to hold vitrified radioactive and chemical waste at a nuclear waste treatment facility at the Hanford site in Washington. The stainless steel container is 7.5 feet tall and 4 feet wide and contains initial pours of clean test glass from the Bechtel-designed Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, marking a significant milestone for the cleanup project, the company said Monday.

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Aperio Global, a cybersecurity and intelligence-focused company, has elevated Tony Smith to the role of director of operations.  In his new position, Smith will be responsible for optimizing corporate operations and ensuring operational efficiency in alignment with the company’s strategic objectives, Aperio Global announced Thursday.  “We are thrilled to have Tony Smith step into the role […] More

Parsons and the U.S. Army have broken ground on a new facility to treat hazardous energetic waste streams at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia. The groundbreaking marks the construction of the incinerator that will replace the open burning of waste at RFAAP to support the Army’s efforts to improve the facility’s environmental impact, […] More

Curtiss-Wright has won contracts totaling over $250 million to assist the U.S. Navy with ship construction, spare parts and submarine back-fit procurements for the Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, Columbia-class submarine and Ford-class aircraft carrier projects. The contracts were issued by Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. and General Dynamics Electric Boat, and under these awards, Curtiss-Wright will deliver propulsion […] More

SpiderOak has expanded its advisory board with the addition of Celeste Ford, board chair of Stellar Solutions and managing director of the latter’s venture capital arm Stellar Ventures. As an adviser, Ford will work to guide SpiderOak’s strategic direction and contribute insights gained from being an aerospace engineering industry veteran, the software company said Wednesday. Dave Pearah, CEO of […] More

Bechtel executive Brian Hartman will serve as project director for its Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project in support of the Department of Energy. Hartman, who currently serves as Bechtel’s senior vice president and corporate engineering and technology manager, assumes the post from the late Valerie McCain, Bechtel said Thursday.  In his new role, Hartman […] More

Amentum will support environmental waste cleanup operations at a decommissioned nuclear production complex in Washington state under a $45 billion contract awarded to Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure. H2C, a limited liability company comprising Amentum, Fluor and BWX Technologies, will oversee waste remediation, treatment and immobilization plant operations at the Hanford Site for the […] More