Steve Selfridge, president of Government Services for Day & Zimmerman, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s recent acquisitions, diversifying its portfolio, the challenges of implementing the latest emerging technologies and the process of recruitment.

Randy James, senior vice president and general manager of cybersecurity and resilience, and John Paczkowski, SVP of homeland security and national resilience, have said the Department of Homeland Security should increase coordinated efforts with the Department of Defense, industry and academia to address emerging threats to critical infrastructure. 

Northrop Grumman is set to submit its final proposal to the U.S. Army for the production of the service’s new Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor.

Lockheed Martin secured a $10.5M contract to produce a modular pod technology for the U.S. Army's Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System.

The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals for novel platforms designed to meet the service’s requirements for the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the service will use the other transaction authority for the rapid prototyping initiative to award a three-year, firm-fixed-price contract to a single offeror in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Aerojet Rocketdyne broke ground Thursday on its engineering, manufacturing and development site in Camden, Ark., for solid rocket motors.

Raytheon is preparing to demonstrate a new missile defense sensor system for a U.S. Army competition that aims to replace the company’s Patriot air-and-missile defense radar.

Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business will continue to help the U.S. Navy build and integrate air and missile defense radar systems under a $28M contract modification.

American Water received a $49.1M contract modification from the Defense Logistics Agency to help the U.S. Army operate wastewater and water utilities at the Fort Polk installation in Louisiana.

Ray Kalustyan, a former group vice president and general manager at Oracle, has joined Rackspace as VP and GM of the cloud computing firm's government solutions business.

The Air Force Materiel Command has released a request for proposals to establish an experimentation center for the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense system.

Accurate Energetic Systems and Spectra Technologies have won spots on a potential five-year, $45M contract to supply the U.S. Army with explosive products.