Neel Mehta

Marillyn Hewson, president, CEO and chairperson of Lockheed Martin, has convened the student finalists of an unmanned aerial system payload design challenge held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The company said Friday the year-long program conducted in partnership with Mubadala Investment seeks to engage UAE-based university students to generate ideas in science, technology, engineering and mathematics […] More

The University of Maryland held a dedication ceremony for the new A. James Clark Hall bioengineering facility that will host collaborative research work through the Leidos Innovation Lab. UMD said Friday the 6,800-square feet Leidos Innovation Lab is located on the first floor of Clark Hall and supported by a donation from Leidos. The lab will […] More

Gay Porter, vice president of the technical solutions group at Engility, has been selected to receive a Washington Business Journal award that honors influential C-level executives in the Greater Washington area. The Business Journal will recognize Porter with the publication’s 2017 Chief Technology Officer C-Suite Award at a ceremony scheduled to take place Dec. 7 at the […] More

DynCorp has been chosen to receive an award from the Army Aviation Association of America for the company’s work to support materiel readiness and logistics functions of the U.S. Army‘s aviation unit. AAAA will present the Materiel Readiness Award for a Contribution by a Major Contractor award to DynCorp during the Joseph P. Cribbins Aviation Product Symposium slated to take place Wednesday […] More

Leidos has scored 100 percent in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s national benchmarking survey on workplace policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees. The company said Thursday it received the “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality” designation due to its perfect score on HRC’s 2018 Corporate Equality Index. Ann Addison, […] More

Revathi Advaithi, chief operating officer of Eaton‘s electronic sector, has been appointed to serve as a non-executive director of the board of directors at BAE Systems beginning Jan. 1, 2018. BAE said Wednesday she oversees Eaton’s global electrical business and corporate operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Advaithi joined the power management company in 1995 as a manufacturing supervisor […] More

Rockwell Collins is one of 25 U.S.-based companies that have received recognition under the National Veteran-Owned Business Association’s 2017 Military Friendly Supplier Diversity Program. The association included Rockwell Collins in the list of companies published in the Vetrepreneur magazine for including veteran-owned businesses into supplier diversity programs, the company said Wednesday. Vetrepreneur ranked the companies based on […] More

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, president and CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity, delivered a keynote speech Monday at the CyberConnect 2017 conference that took place in New York City. He told event audience he believes the U.S. government should play a key role in efforts to protect trade secrets the same way it helps secure critical infrastructure […] More

Mark Ferguson, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has been elected to join the board of directors at Alexandria, Virginia-based technical services contractor VSE effective Dec. 1. VSE said Wednesday Ferguson concurrently led U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Naval Forces Africa, as well as NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command before he retired from military service in July last year. The […] More

David Turner, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general, will officially join American Water on Nov. 20 as president of the water and wastewater utility company’s military services business group. The more than 20-year Army veteran will succeed Todd Duerr, who is due to leave the company Jan. 1, 2018, American Water said Tuesday. Turner will lead MSG’s efforts to […] More

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has been appointed to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors. Desch brings to the council more than 35 years of experience in the telecommunications and global wireless industries, NVTC said Tuesday. Desch, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, is a member of President Donald Trump’s National Security Telecommunications […] More