Raytheon has been awarded a 27-month, $15.5 million contract to develop an open architecture for the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The company will produce application-based systems for airborne commercial-off-the-shelf computing, services-oriented architecture and infrastructure, and software-based mission applications, Raytheon said Feb. 17. “The goal is to use readily available technology to quickly upgrade […] More

As president and CEO of Vencore, Mac Curtis oversees more than 2,000 people that provide systems engineering and integration services to the public and private sectors. Curtis joined the Vertias Capital-owned company in 2013 — when it was known as The SI Organization — after time as an operating executive for the private equity firm. The 25-year GovCon senior […] More

Scott Price is the general manager of Microsoft‘s national security group and is in charge of the company’s productivity and collaboration offerings to federal clients such as the departments of Homeland Security, Energy and Justice. He previously worked at General Dynamics‘ information technology business as vice president and general manager of that unit’s homeland security solutions sector. At General Dynamics, Price oversaw programs with […] More

David Fastabend serves as vice president of advanced information systems at Exelis and leads an organization that works on new products for customers in the defense and intelligence, air traffic management, space, earth science and homeland defense markets. Fastabend joined the company in January 2011 and has also served as Exelis’ director of strategic planning and technology development. […] More

Wray Varley serves as area vice president of advanced programs for the departments of Homeland Security and Justice at CenturyLink’s federal government industry. In this role, he directs a sales team that focuses on CenturyLink’s national security-related contracts. Prior to this role, Varley had sales and business development responsibility for all civilian government agencies such as the departments of Energy […] More

Stephen Brobst, chief technology officer of Teradata, has been named by ExecRank to the publication’s list of its top five CTOs in the U.S. for 2014 out of more than 2,500 screened CTOs. His rank rose from 14th in 2012 to the current rank of fourth, the company said Monday. “We are extremely impressed with the continuing achievements […] More

Deltek‘s Alex Rossino has outlined his analysis of the U.S. Army‘s spending on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 – Services vehicle in an effort to help vendors prepare for the upcoming ITES-3S iteration in fiscal year 2015. “ITES-3S is expected to be even more heavily utilized than its predecessor due to the Army’s desire to push more of its IT acquisition […] More

Commercial and government efforts are underway to build unmanned and autonomous underwater vehicles that can be used for naval warfare, environmental research and recovery mission, National Defense Magazine reports. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, believes that UUV technology has limitless applications and will […] More

Jessica Nielsen serves as vice president of communications and marketing at Lockheed Martin where she is responsible for all facets of communications at the company’s Information Systems and Global Solutions division. She previously was executive director of global communications at Dell and was chief of staff to the BAE Systems group communications director from 2009-2011. Nielsen […] More

U.S. contractors’ investments in overseas markets and other business segments this year should help offset the impact of weak domestic orders and defense spending limits, The Washington Post reported Monday. Amrita Jayakumar writes that General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grummanposted stronger profits in the companies’ earnings reports for the first quarter of 2014 but […] More

ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Tina Kuhn, a top cybersecurity executive with Northrop Grumman Information Systems, on Northrop’s international expansion, opportunities for transformation within the government budget environment, how to “build-in” cyber defenses, and more in the cyber space. Kuhn joined Northrop in 2012 after holding a series of GovCon leadership roles focusing on intelligence and […] More

Erik Buice leads Northrop Grumman‘s health systems management unit as vice president and leads a team of more than 800 personnel who help federal health agencies manage their information technology systems. Buice’s career has included stops at firms ranging from large to small, including IT and consulting roles at companies such as CGI, Patriot Technologies, […] More