When Hurricane Harvey tore into Texas in late August 2017, neighborhoods filled with chest-deep water in hours. Streets vanished under the current, and hundreds of thousands of homes across Houston and Harris County were damaged. In the aftermath, the government systems designed to assess that destruction couldn’t keep pace. Communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program are responsible for…

AMERICAN SYSTEMS has appointed Lauren Kilcoyne as chief operating officer, effective Jan. 5, 2026. She will oversee operations, drive cross-functional collaboration and lead business planning and acquisition strategy execution to support the employee-owned company’s long-term objectives. “After a thorough search, Lauren has been selected to fill this significant position on our Executive Leadership Team,” said John Steckel, president and CEO…

REI Systems has been selected as an awardee on the Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, contract, making the company eligible to compete for task orders under a Defense Department program focused on developing and sustaining layered homeland missile defense capabilities. SHIELD is a 10-year multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a $151 billion ceiling. The…