Patrick Fitzgerald, the former director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, has joined accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, the firm announced today.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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Marjorie Censer was Inside Defense's editor until July 2021. She previously worked at the Washington Post and its local business publication Capital Business, covering defense industry reshaping, the increased scrutiny of contractors following the Edward Snowden case and the challenges of canceling military programs. From 2007 to 2010, she was managing editor of Inside the Army. She also previously worked as defense editor at POLITICO and as a staff writer at the Carroll County Times and the Princeton Packet. A Fairfax native, she graduated from Princeton University.
Patrick Fitzgerald, the former director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, has joined accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, the firm announced today.
Boeing announced today its board has elected Dennis Muilenburg the company's next chief executive, succeeding Jim McNerney, who has served in the role for a decade. Muilenburg will take over on July 1.
Lou Von Thaer, president of Leidos' national security sector, has been named chief executive of DynCorp International, the company told InsideDefense.com on Monday.
Huntington Ingalls' Newport News Shipbuilding division today broke ground on a new Joint Manufacturing Assembly Facility, which the company said will help build aircraft carriers and submarines.
The U.S. government has filed a lawsuit against BAE Systems' Sealy, TX-based tactical vehicle systems subsidiary, alleging BAE "knowingly overcharg[ed] the Army" in a multibillion-dollar truck contract, the Justice Department announced Friday.
Boeing announced today it has opened a new, 80,000-square-foot research and technology center in Huntsville, AL.
Following the end of discussions between Huntington Ingalls and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners about how best to redevelop the Avondale shipyard, the chief executive of Huntington Ingalls says the company is now exploring other options.
Cybersecurity firm EdgeWave has named David Bell its technical director for security operations and analysis.
Babcock & Wilcox is splitting its business in two, creating a power-generation business that will retain the Babcock & Wilcox name and a company known as BWX Technologies that will include the company's naval nuclear reactor manufacturing and government services work.
ManTech International said today it has acquired Reston, VA-based Knowledge Consulting Group, a cybersecurity company that serves government agencies and commercial businesses.
Leidos said today it has named James Reagan its new chief financial officer.
Colt Defense announced Monday it has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to "allow for an accelerated sale of Colt's business operations in the U.S. and Canada."
United Technologies said early Monday it has decided to separate its Sikorsky Aircraft business, following a review of strategic alternatives.
A new Deloitte study found that the U.S. defense industry has shed nearly 168,000 jobs since 2010.
General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls, the Navy's two submarine builders, are in discussions with the service about how to structure the Ohio-class replacement program, according to the two companies' chief executives.
Seeking to improve the efficiency of its shipbuilding business, Huntington Ingalls is seeking new customers and preparing to make a "generational reset" of its shipbuilding facilities and processes.
The federal government's reduction in the number of cleared workers is creating challenges for contractors, industry advocates and company executives say.
Science Applications International Corp. on Tuesday reported a slight increase in sales in its most recent quarter.
The Pentagon is preparing to release a new instruction meant to improve its scrutiny of services contracts, a top military buying official said Monday.
NCI said Friday it has named Cindy Moran, the former director of network services at the Defense Information Systems Agency, to its board of directors.