Jim Batina has been appointed by the Chemring Group as business development vice president for its Chemring Ordnance subsidiary and will handle the business development efforts of that unit and Chemring Military Products. Batina started at COR in 2012 under its business development group and has since worked in the areas of defense business capture, manufacturing and research and development, COR […] More

Total federal contract spending declined for the sixth consecutive year in the government’s 2016 fiscal year but the team of analysts at Bloomberg Government predict that negative trend to reverse in the current FY 2016. In its BGOV 200 study released Tuesday, Bloomberg Government said federal unclassified contract spend for fiscal year 2015 fell nearly 1.5 percent to a […] More

Ray Winn serves as a partner at Deloitte‘s federal practice and also is the lead client service partner for the company’s practice focused on defense acquisition, test and logistics. He also previously held the roles of federal leader and chief operating officer within the federal practice as well as LCSP for the Navy System Command and U.S. Marine Corps practice and lead […] More

Carl Marchetto, formerly president and CEO of business development consulting firm Polaris Associates, has been appointed vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s commercial satellite business, Denver Business Journal reported Tuesday. Marchetto succeeds Mike Hamel, who will oversee a joint venture between Lockheed and telecommunications firms in Saudi Arabia, Greg Avery writes. Marchetto is a […] More

A new PwC report on the mergers and acquisitions in aerospace-and-defense industry says deal activities increased in 2014 compared to 2013 and the number of transactions worth at least $1 billion doubled from the prior year. The firm’s Mission Control report, authored by PwC Global A&D Leader Guillaume Rochard and U.S. A&D Leader Chuck Marx, says the total deal value reached $22.3 billion in 2014, up from the $14.3 […] More

NASA took the first step Friday in what it hopes to be a new era for human space exploration as the agency sent the Orion capsule into a nearly four-hour orbit to evaluate its potential for future missions via Boeing‘s Space Launch System. Engineers for NASA and Orion constructor Lockheed Martin focused much of their attention […] More

Alex Heidt serves as a senior vice president and general manager at Alion Science and Technology, which he joined in March 2013 after service as SVP and GM at Harris Corp.’s information technology services business. Heidt has also served as a VP of Air Force programs at Harris and was responsible for profit-and-loss management, program execution, and business […] More

NASA has released a second request for proposals through its commercial space program for more companies to launch logistical and research payloads and help send supplies to the International Space Station. The Commercial Resupply Services 2 program includes at least six flights to and from ISS for each potential contract through 2020 and an option for additional flights through 2024, NASA said Friday. “To […] More

(Editor’s note: this interview took place prior to ATK’s April announcement that the company would spinoff its sporting division into an independent company and merge its aerospace and defense businesses with Orbital Sciences. Click here to read GovCon Wire’s coverage of both transactions.) As senior vice president and chief information officer at ATK, Jeff Kubacki acts as the Arlington, […] More

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely considered the world’s top premier space agency. With a budget of approximately $24 billion, a 5.3% increase from the previous fiscal year, and a workforce of 18,000 and its contractors, it programs and operates a worldwide network of research laboratories and facilities. Among the numerous projects […] More

Redwire has built and supplied a pair of roll-out solar arrays to Boeing for installation on the International Space Station as part of a NASA initiative to modernize the orbiting laboratory's power system. Boeing, the prime contractor for NASA ISS operations, received two of the six iROSAs after the hardware completed the acceptance testing phase, Redwire said Thursday.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched an in-space manufacturing program that seeks to develop materials for large space and lunar structures and has announced a Feb. 26 webinar for interested proposers. The Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design program is aimed at enabling construction on orbit and on the lunar surface in response to payload size limitations.

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