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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.
As Lockheed Martin reshapes for tougher times, the contractor is significantly boosting its focus on international sales, hiring hundreds in the countries where it hopes to win work and opening new offices abroad, top executives said Wednesday.
Law firm Dentons said today it had hired Giovanna Cinelli and Kenneth Nunnenkamp as partners in its U.S. export controls and national security practice.
The new chief executive of the National Defense Industrial Association is seeking to adapt the organization for a tougher time for industry and for government-focused conferences.
Government contracting advocates and attorneys say they are concerned that new regulations related to trafficking create too many questions to be well implemented.
Larry Flynn, president of Gulfstream Aerospace, is set to succeed Joseph Lombardo as executive vice president of General Dynamics' aerospace group as of July 1, the contractor announced today.
The chief executive of Vencore is rapidly remaking the company, turning a former Lockheed Martin unit into a services company with a much broader range of customers and capabilities.
NCI reported today that revenue fell but profit grew in its most recent quarter.
As government spending declines, the new chief executive of Booz Allen Hamilton says the contractor is positioning itself to grow, investing in international work and in new ideas.
Boeing is consolidating the management of key programs, including the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker and the presidential aircraft, to ensure it stays on schedule and budget, the company said today.
Harris Corp. said Friday it has agreed to acquire Exelis in a $4.75 billion deal, marking a major move to consolidate the defense industry as Pentagon spending dips.
After winning several major program contracts last year year, including the Combat Rescue Helicopter and the presidential helicopter, Sikorsky is seeing "much more certainty 20 years out than there is in the next five years," according to one company executive.
Curtiss-Wright's defense solutions division has opened what it is calling the "bicycle shop," an internal incubator meant to explore next-generation technologies.
The aggressive price wars in the government services market are generating lower profit margins, pushing at least one of the largest defense contractors to question whether these businesses are worth keeping.
An Army National Guard official pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting a $30,000 bribe for directing a $3.6 million contract to a retired Minnesota Army National Guard official and his consulting firm, the Justice Department announced.
More than a year after splitting its business into two pieces, Science Applications International Corp. is reshaped for a tougher environment and ready for growth, its chief executive told InsideDefense.com.
Under the fiscal year 2016 budget unveiled by the government Monday, the Defense Department would receive $37.3 billion in funds designated for information technology.
The Professional Services Council, an industry group, announced today that it has bought the TechAmerica Foundation, including its vision forecast and conference, defense strategic planning forum, annual federal chief information officer survey and the American Technology Awards.
Defense contracting executives said this week that they view the spending bill passed in December as well as next week's planned budget release as positive steps -- but cautioned that there remains uncertainty around the debt ceiling and sequestration.
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today it has acquired the Columbia Group's engineering solutions division, which designs and builds unmanned underwater vehicles for U.S. and international customers.
Some of the largest defense contractors reported Thursday a decline in sales -- but several executives said they are seeing a better spending environment emerge this year.