Matthew Schmitz, formerly a vice president at Huntsville, Alabama-based engineering and program management services provider Intrepid, has been named VP of the technical services business at Dynetics. Dynetics said April 10 Schmitz will oversee the unit’s business development strategy and enterprise growth initiatives in his new position. Schmitz has almost 20 years of business development and operations management experience at multiple […] More

NASA has selected eight research projects that aim to address challenges to commercial supersonic travel such as sonic booms and emissions from supersonic aircraft. The research initiatives will involve academic institutions and companies and will get funding worth more than $2.3 million under the agency’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project, the space agency said Wednesday. Kenneth Plotkin […] More

Ellen Glover, an executive vice president at ICF International, has been reappointed chairwoman of the board of directors of the Professional Services Council. John Goodman, chief operating officer of Accenture Federal Services, and Kathleen Flanagan, president and CEO of Abt Associates, were respectively re-elected as vice chair and secretary, PSC said Thursday. Twelve executives from […] More