The shipbuilding industry plays a crucial role in the economy, regional development, and national security, particularly by constructing warships. Warships serve multiple military purposes, including deterring enemy attacks and safeguarding the logistics and transportation of military forces by sea. Below is a list of five prominent government military shipbuilders in no particular order. The selection […] More

Image by Kristi Blokhin from Shutterstock.com Raytheon Technologies is a leading aerospace and defense company and manufacturer of technologies for mission-critical operations. The company’s primary customer is the Department of Defense, providing the military with the latest equipment and services. Take a look at Raytheon Technologies’ leaders, founders, and executives. About Raytheon Technologies Image from […] More

Juan Zarate, global co-managing partner of K2 Integrity, chairman of Consilient, and 2016 Wash100 Award winner recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the rebranding of K2 Intelligence FIN into K2 Integrity, the origin and continued development of Consilient, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the potential plans for his companies heading into 2021. 

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Saab is slated to open a manufacturing facility in West Lafayette, Ind., to support the production of T-X trainer aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, Defense News reported Friday.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Gina Haspel, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, as the newest inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena — for her efforts to improve the CIA as an intelligence service and diversifying the agency’s workforce. This marks Haspel’s first Wash100 award.

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Orbital ATK has hired 1,000 additional employees and expanded several weapons facilities to increase production capacity as it expects a rise in the demand for munitions and missiles from the Defense Department in the next few years, Defense News reported Wednesday. “We have invested a decent number of millions, tens of millions, in a number of […] More

Boeing and Northrop Grumman have started to develop designs of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile for the U.S. Air Force, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. The service branch awarded in August 2017 approximately $678 million in combined contracts to Boeing and Northrop to perform technology maturation and risk reduction work on the GBSD program. GBSD […] More

Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, told CNBC in an interview aired Wednesday that the company is a “buyer” and is on the lookout for potential acquisitions. “We are continuing to look at other ways to increase our top line through mergers and acquisitions and we have a continued pipeline we’re assessing,” Caret said […] More

Orbital ATK has announced plans to make a $5 million investment to expand its 175,000-square-foot production facility in Beavercreek, Ohio, as the company transitions work from its Clearfield, Utah-based facility. The company said Tuesday the expansion project is expected to generate 57 technical and engineering jobs and will add approximately 40,000 square feet of space […] More

Navistar‘s defense business has received an $18.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to build medium tactical vehicles for Iraq as part of a foreign military sales deal. The company said Tuesday it will supply Iraq’s army with 115 7000-MV medium tactical vehicles that are based on International Trucks‘ multipurpose Workstar platform. Workstar is designed for on-road and off-road operations […] More

Lockheed Martin has handed over a C-5M Super Galaxy airlifter to the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command’s 433rd Airlift Wing at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Brig. Gen. James Fontanella, Force Generation Center commander, led an An Air Force Reserve Command aircrew to ferry the aircraft from Stewart Air National Guard Base, New York where it […] More

General Dynamics has received approval from the U.S. Army to commence full-rate production of the company’s wireless battlefield communication systems for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 2 program. The company built the WIN-T platform to help Army commanders and soldiers communicate with each other and projects that all military units will have access to the […] More