Mark Caylor serves as the corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman’s mission systems business unit. The company is a major provider of advanced solutions for defense and intelligence customers. Caylor oversees the development and production of high-impact systems and hardware and software products in areas such as command, control, computing, communications, intelligence, surveillance […]
Maria Demaree, a Potomac Officers Club member, serves as the vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin's space mission solutions, roles she has held for over two years. She is responsible for about 4.4K employees and an annual sales base of over $1B in support of government defense and intelligence agencies. The mission systems […]
Phil Jasper is the president of Collins Aerospace's mission systems strategic business unit based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is responsible for delivering military, government and civilian solutions to help global customers successfully complete complex missions. For nearly two years, Jasper has led the business unit that boasts a $3.6B portfolio and over 10K […]
Sean Stackley, a 2015 Wash100 awardee, serves as L3Harris Technologies' president of integrated mission systems. He is responsible for the business strategy, financial performance, execution and growth of his business segment. L3Harris' integrated mission systems shop spans a wide portfolio of solutions in power distribution, reconnaissance, electro-optics and aviation, among others. Prior to his current […]
Chris Brady, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics. In his role, he is responsible for ensuring his business unit's overall financial and operational success. GDMS is a major provider of mission-critical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, communication systems, platform systems and sensors […]
General Dynamics Missions Systems announced that it has partnered with Dedrone, an airspace security company, giving the General Dynamics global network access to Dedrone's drone technology. GDMS President Chris Brady, a Potomac Officers Club member and 2020 Wash100 awardee, said his company is eager to Dedrone's deliver counter-drone capabilities to customers globally. "The intrusion of […]
The University of Notre Dame has launched a new hypersonic technology effort and has begun creating several new wind tunnels for testing. Thomas Corke, an engineering professor at Notre Dame, identified 11 technologies he believes are key to the development of hypersonic vehicles, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday. “I began to reach out to faculty […]
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and 2020 Wash100 winner, has toured the Pope neighborhood at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as part of a series of trips to military installations nationwide. McCarthy is observing the Army's construction and renovation efforts geared towards improving on-post housing. “The Army is focused on investment […]
ManTech CEO and President Kevin Phillips, a Potomac Officers Club member, has been elected by the company's board of directors to serve as the new chairman. Phillips, who is also a four-time Wash100 awardee, will replace ManTech co-founder and Executive Chairman George Pedersen. “George is an industry pioneer, and since our founding he has been and […]
The Navy plans to invest heavily in a ship-mounted cloud computing infrastructure that will serve as a foundation for network-based naval warfare in the future. The Naval Sea Systems Command's plan involves the installation of tactical edge computing infrastructure on its fleet of aircraft carriers and amphibious ships, among other vessels. The infrastructure is expected to […]
