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Noam Oz, a former Naval Sea Systems Command program manager with 20 years of combined industry and government experience, has been appointed director of innovation operations at NavalX at the Office of

The Department of the Air Force has appointed aerospace and defense executive Ravi Chaudhary as assistant secretary for installations, environment and energy. He will lead budget management as well as implementation of

Makenzie Lystrup, former vice president and general manager of Ball Aerospace‘s civil space unit, has been sworn in as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center. Lystrup, who takes over for acting

Gregg Sears, a defense acquisition professional and program management leader, has been appointed deputy director of air warfare at the U.S. Navy, he announced in a LinkedIn post. He brings to the

NASA has established its new Moon to Mars Program Office to support and conduct human exploration work on the lunar surface and prepare for future crewed missions to Mars. Veteran space professional Amit

Laura Taylor-Kale, a fellow for innovation and economic competitiveness at the Council on Foreign Relations, has received Senate confirmation to serve as assistant secretary for industrial base policy at the Department of Defense. According

Jon Olansen, a 33-year veteran of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, has been appointed program manager of the agency’s Gateway lunar space station initiative. Olansen, who has been with the program

Kathleen Featheringham has joined Maximus as its new vice president of artificial intelligence and machine learning, bringing over two decades of experience in the public sector technology market to the company. In this

Ken Bowersox will transition from deputy associate administrator to head of NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, effective May 1. He will succeed outgoing SOMD Associate Administrator Kathryn Lueders, who announced her retirement

Joel Duling has been confirmed as the official associate laboratory director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Operational Systems Directorate. He has been serving in an interim capacity since January, managing the laboratory’s