Neel Mehta

Raytheon has announced its missile systems production facility in Tucson, Arizona, has obtained a “superior” security rating from the Defense Security Service for the sixth consecutive year. The company said Wednesday it received a score of 851 from a week-long audit of the plant, 14 points away from a perfect score. DSS gives the superior rating to industry […] More

Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, and two other company executives have been named to the Institutional Investor magazine’s 2018 All-America Executive Team. Krone landed a spot in the top three for Best CEO within the aerospace and defense electronics midcap category under the list’s capital goods and industrial sector, Leidos said Wednesday. Leidos […] More

Hasan Rizvi, a more than two-decade veteran of Oracle, has joined private equity firm  Bridge Growth Partners as a senior adviser and he will be based in San Francisco. Bridge Growth Partners said Tuesday Rizvi is currently a member of the board of directors of its portfolio company Solace. He established and led virtual agent technology developer Qlue as CEO […] More

Mike Lewis, director of business development and training solutions at CAE‘s U.S. arm, will deliver a keynote speech Thursday at the 2017 Military Flight Training USA Summit in San Antonio, Texas. He will discuss integrated live, virtual and constructive flight training that works to connect aircraft and ground simulations, Leonardo DRS said Monday. In his current role, Lewis oversees CAE USA‘s […] More

George Franz, a managing director of Accenture‘s federal services business and retired U.S. Army major general, has received a Saint Isidore Army Cyber award from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association to acknowledge his cyberspace expertise. Accenture said Wednesday Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of the Army Cyber Command, presented AFCEA’s “Gold Level Medallion” to Franz and cited the […] More

IBM has received the 2018 Military Friendly Employer of the Year Award from Victory Media for the company’s efforts to hire military veterans. Recipients of the 2018 Military Friendly Employer award will be featured in Victory Media’s G.I. Jobs and Military Spouse magazines, IBM said Monday. Sam Gordy, IBM general manager of IBM’s federal business, wrote in a blog […] More

The American National Standards Institute seeks participants for a recently launched collaborative effort that will support the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the U.S. national airspace system. ANSI said Monday the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative aims to coordinate and advance the creation of UAS integration standards and compliance assessment programs as well as foster international […] More

The Aerospace Industries Association has named at least 20 executives from the government contracting sector to its board of governors for 2018. Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, will succeed Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg as chairman of AIA, the trade group said Monday. William Brown, chairman, president and CEO of Harris, will serve as […] More

Ben Gibson, formerly chief marketing officer at F5 Networks, has been appointed to the same position at California-based cloud computing software company Nutanix. Nutanix said Tuesday Gibson will be responsible for developing and implementing a global marketing strategy intended to drive adoption of company-built enterprise cloud technology offerings. Gibson said he aims to help expand the company’s customer base […] More

Marc Teerlink, formerly chief business strategist of IBM‘s Watson business group, has joined SAP as global vice president of the software company’s digital innovation system SAP Leonardo. SAP said Friday that Teerlink will be responsible for helping drive the company’s presence in the artificial intelligence and machine learning markets in his new position. He will be based at a company […] More