TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 22, 2018 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) CEO Matt Desch has said in an earnings call the company plans to take a 10-year “capex holiday” after it completes the $3B Iridium NEXT satellite constellation this year, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 7. Space News reported Aug. 6 that the news comes after ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 17, 2018 ” A Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) command-and-control system for the U.S. Army‘s air defense assets has completed testing of its long-range network management capability during a five-week soldier checkout event, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Integrated Air and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 1, 2018 ” Iridium Communications™ (Nasdaq: IRDM) Aireon subsidiary has partnered with Airbus™ defense and space business to provide space-based aircraft tracking data to the latter™s recently launched airspace analytics platform, ExecutiveBiz reported July 20. Aireon said July 19 it will supply Auto...
Matthew Schneider, senior director of government, education and healthcare at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said agencies seeking to modernize their information technology infrastructure should know more about the security and behavior of their applications and eliminate apps™ reliance on the physical infrastructure. œWhen an appl...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 23, 2018 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) helped detect and counter hacking attempts against three congressional candidates earlier this year and worked with the U.S. government to shut down the domain used and block the phishing messages, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Politico reported Thursday that Tom Burt, vice presid...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded three nonprofit organizations positions on the unrestricted full and open portion of a potential $28 billion contract vehicle for research and development support services to the Pentagon’s Defense Technical Information Center. Battelle, MRIGLobal and Southwest Research Institute will vie for task orders to ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 12, 2018 ” General Atomics has flown an MQ-9B SkyGuardian variant of its Predator B remotely piloted aircraft from North Dakota in the U.S. to Gloucestershire in the U.K. ahead of the platform’s presentation at the 2018 Royal International Air Tattoo airshow over the weekend, ExecutiveBiz report...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2018 ” Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM), has said the satellite communications industry has seen the “bring your own device movement become one of the top trends in the sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Desch, a four-time Wash100 recipient, said in an interview with CommunicAsia publi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 28, 2018 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA), through its venture capital arm, has invested in North Fair Oaks, Calif.-based Matternet, which builds unmanned aerial vehicles for urban logistics use, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Boeing said Tuesday HorizonX Ventures led a Series A funding round that raised $16 million to su...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeJhXAigzNc The third meeting of the National Space Council, seeking a partnership to power our Gateway, and “ an educational activity that™s quite a blast ¦ a few of the stories to tell you about “ This Week at NASA! This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library:...
