Dave Dacquino, chairman and CEO of Serco Inc. and past Wash100 Award recipient, and three other heads of companies within the government contracting sector have called on other GovCon executives to join the Department of Labor's Apprenticeship Pilot Program that aims to help service members transition to careers in the private sector. Dacquino urged industry to support the initiative in a joint letter with Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' government unit and 2020 Wash100 winner; Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics' mission systems business and 2020 Wash100 awardee; and Doug Wagoner, president and CEO of LMI and previous Wash100 recipient.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 16, 2020 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) helps the U.S. Air Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintain systems for analyzing weather conditions to ensure the safety of satellite launch missions, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 9.

General Dynamics' mission systems business is developing a non-controlled cryptographic item variant of TACLANE-Nano (KG-175N), an inline network encryptor for secure tactical communications.

Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics’ information technology business and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said GDIT looks forward to continuing its partnership with the General Services Administration, Department of Defense and the Defense Information Systems Agency through the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud contract as part of efforts to meet the goals stated in DoD’s Cloud Strategy.

Fred Kennedy, former director of the Space Development Agency and a more than 25-year defense and industry veteran, has been appointed president of Santa Clara, California-based space technology company Momentus.

Billy Kliner, a more than two-decade project and program management professional, has been named Salesforce practice lead at Steampunk.

Aerospace and defense contractors have come up with ways to enable their interns to work virtually as they continue their efforts to build up their workforce amid the coronavirus pandemic, Government Executive reported Tuesday.

A PathFinder Digital-made satellite terminal has received certification to operate with the Wideband Global Satcom, a system designed to facilitate satellite communications for the Department of Defense and select allies.

A Lockheed Martin-built satellite communications platform has completed multiservice operational test and evaluation and is slated to become fully available across tactical warfare systems.

The U.S. Army has fielded a six-tube launcher that can fire AeroVironment-built missiles during forward-operating base defense missions, National Defense reported Tuesday. Brett Hush, vice president of tactical missile systems at AeroVironment, said that special operations forces as well as the Army and Marine Corps have been using the small weapons for over seven years.

The U.S. Navy is seeking potential contractors for the design and construction of its multimission FFG(X) guided missile frigates, which are to operate in coastal and deep water environments to provide support for air, anti-submarine, surface and electronic warfare.

Some industry executives discussed how to help the U.S. Army develop an information technology network designed to support warfighters in bandwidth- and power-constrained environments, C4ISRNET reported Thursday.