ExecutiveBiz News on Video 10/3/2022

Matt Tait, chief operating officer of ManTech International since July 2020, has been promoted to the president and CEO positions. He succeeds Kevin Phillips, who has led ManTech over the past four years and will continue to serve as chairman of the board, the company said Monday. Tait’s promotion is effective immediately and comes less […]

L3Harris Technologies looks to expand its communication and networking capabilities through a potential $1.96 billion deal with Viasat for the acquisition of the satellite communication company’s Tactical Data Links business. The purchase of Link 16 product line from Viasat’s government systems segment will include Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems and associated terminals integrated into military assets […]

Siemens Government Technologies announced on Monday that John Ustica has been named the company’s new president and CEO to lead SGT and expand its immersive technology portfolio for government customers. As SGT president and CEO, Ustica will lead the development of critical solutions providing the company’s customers with solutions across industrial automation and smart infrastructure to […]

Amy Wood, chief financial officer for Intelligent Waves, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about how her approach as a CFO in the federal landscape may be more uncommon than other CFOs to drive the company’s financial performance as well as the most significant macroeconomic threats that government contractors face today during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read […]

Doug Jankovich, a more than two-decade U.S. Air Force veteran, was appointed as vice president of international strategy and growth at HII‘s mission technologies business arm, according to a LinkedIn post on Sunday.  The executive most recently served as VP of strategy and growth at the military shipbuilding company and was a VP of business […]

Professional services company DCS has won a five-year, $99.5 million contract to perform modeling, analysis and tools support work for the U.S. Air Force’s Seek Eagle aircraft-stores certification program.  Alexandria, Virginia-based DCS will help the service branch develop tools to ensure items for carriage are compatible with multirole aircraft platforms, the Department of Defense said Friday. […]

Northrop Grumman has secured a $29.9 million task order under the U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Services Program-4 contract to launch a small satellite mission as part of a Department of Defense initiative. The company will use its Minotaur IV launch vehicle for the Space Test Program-S29A to deliver up to 200 kg of CubeSats to […]

Seerist has expanded its existing contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to include augmented analytics-based geographic information system data services. The company said Wednesday the additional support via GIS mapping software Esri will allow NGA to access real-time dashboards that could help policymakers, warfighters and crisis responders formulate insights and threat forecasts. “The NGA team […]

NASA has partnered with SpaceX to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of sending a Crew Dragon spacecraft to boost the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit and extend its life. SpaceX signed an unfunded Space Act agreement with the agency to collect technical data from both the telescope and the spacecraft to […]

Firefly Aerospace deployed three customer payloads to low Earth orbit early Saturday morning using the company-built Alpha launch vehicle. The Space Launch Delta 30 unit said Saturday the rocket lifted off at 3:01 a.m. Eastern time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as part of Firefly’s small vehicle demonstration effort. Alpha completed an elliptical […]