ECS has promoted John Heneghan to chief operating officer (COO) and Giles Kesteloot to chief strategy officer (CSO) in an effort to enhance company performance and speed up growth. In the roles, Heneghan and Kesteloot will enhance customer service and maintain the business operations. “I am proud to promote John and Giles to the roles of COO and CSO,” said ECS President George Wilson, a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient.

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Peter Davidson, who previously served as an executive at Verizon Communications and general counsel at the Department of Commerce, has joined Intelsat as vice president of global government affairs and policy. He will be responsible for developing Intelsat's global government engagement strategy and will work from its office in McLean, Va., the communications satellite company said Monday.

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Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Navy launched Friday the service branch’s future Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. at a company shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. HII said Monday the ship, designated as DDG 121, was transferred to a floating dry dock with a rail car system, then the structure was moved away from the pier and ballasted down […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun the fabrication process for the U.S. Navy’s Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship named after the first African-American pilot and U.S. Marine Corps general officer. HII said Wednesday the process suggests that the company has already cut 100 tons of steel for integration with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile […] More

Peter Smith has held the position of president and CEO of American Systems since 2014 and serves on the company’s board of directors. He joined American Systems in 1980 as a Systems EngineerProgram Manager and since then has held several key leadership roles such as chief operating officer, executive vice president and general manager, vice […] More

Joseph Peters, formerly the White House Drug Policy Office’s acting deputy director for state and local affairs, has joined Vantage Health as president and member of the board of directors. He will succeed board member Will Rees and help lead efforts to bring the company’s technology to law enforcement operations for narcotics detection, Vantage Health said Wednesday. The 25-year law […] More

Northrop Grumman will establish an office near London International Airport in Ontario through a partnership with Diamond Aircraft Industries to offer intelligence-gathering aircraft systems in Canada and other international markets. George Vardoulakis, vice president of medium-range tactical systems at Northrop, said Wednesday the companies will work to combine Northro’s manned and unmanned systems technology and Diamond […] More

NetApp broke ground on a research and development center in Mahadevapura, India intended to support global development and business operations, according to an InformationWeek article. The facility is scheduled to be completed in 2015 and will contain 25,000 square foot data center on a 15 acre plot. “To enable increasingly multidisciplinary and collaborative work, we want to […] More

Fidelis Cybersecurity has established a regional office in the U.K. as part of its efforts to grow the company’s European client base and offer channel partners with technology platforms designed to detect and prevent cyber attacks. The company said Friday it appointed Paul Roberts, a former regional director at Arbor Networks, as regional vice president to lead Fidelis’ new facility in Fleet, […] More

Airframe structure builder Avcorp Industries has received a new firm order from Lockheed Martin to produce outboard wings for lots nine and 10 of the F-35 program. The F-35 Carrier Variant Outboard Wing order builds on a previous contract awarded by Lockheed in October 2015, Avcorp said Friday. Avcorp CEO Peter George said the company is in talks with Lockheed to […] More

General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions will collaborate with CrowdStrike to offer Fidelis XPS customers access to threat intelligence that support measures to remediate, prevent, detect and attribute cyber attacks. CrowdStrike Intelligence Exchange will automatically send customers information on threat actors, such as behavioral patterns and common targets, for application onto historical and current network traffic, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We […] More

General Stephen Whiting stepped into his new role as the Commander of the U.S. Space Command in January 2024. He brings over three decades of experience, specializing in aerial and space operations and receiving merits as he ascends through the ranks. General Whiting is one of the most ideal candidates to speak for the 2024 […] More