https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehdHoO6YfOQ Jon Piatt, vice president for strategy and business development at L3 Insight Technology’s L3 Warrior Sensor Systems business, discusses the company’s partnership with Air Tractor on the AT-802L Longsword aircraft, its US Army night-vision goggle contract and expansion plans within that market,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkTEVt0lTj0 Directed Energy weapons operate at the speed of light, are hard to detect, and have an almost unlimited magazine. They™ll make our military operations more effective and efficient, ultimately helping reduce costs and save lives. Former Missile Defense Agency Director and Directed Energy Lead Trey Ober...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 18, 2018 ” Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM), has said the company anticipates its continued transformation into a mature company over the next 12 to 24 months as it nears the completion of its Iridium NEXT satellite communications network and builds on partnerships and business areas such as...
Matt Tait, formerly senior managing director and defense lead at Accenture (NYSE: ACN), has been appointed to succeed Dan Keefe as president of ManTech International‘s (Nasdaq: MANT) mission solutions and services group. ManTech said Wednesday Tait will join the company on June 19 and assume his new position on July 1. He will overse...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 4, 2018 ” An industry team led by General Atomics™ aeronautical systems unit has used a Pratt & Whitney-built engine technology for an unmanned aerial refueling aircraft that the former is offering to the U.S. Navy, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. General Atomics said Thursday both companies tested the inlet and e...
United Technologies Corp.™s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a potential three-year, $2 billion contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce the 11th batch of F135 engines for all three variants of the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 Lightning II aircraft. Pratt & Whitney said Thursday it will build...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvO0sVDyaRw Cyber attacks present a clear challenge to our security, societies and economies. NATO has a defensive mandate and is taking a serious, responsible and measured approach to cyber defence....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 29, 2018 ” The International Maritime Organization™s maritime safety committee has cleared Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) to provide mobile satellite services in support of the Global Maritime Distress Safety System, ExecutiveBiz reported May 22. Iridium said May 21 it intends to enter a public services a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 21, 2018 ” Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM), has said public and private sector collaboration is critical in solving the current space debris problem that threatens U.S. economic and national security, ExecutiveBiz reported May 14. Desch wrote in a USA Today opinion piece published May 14 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izTWWv9oHuw Littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) fires an AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missile at a small fast-attack target vehicle and scores a direct hit. The Milwaukee fired four Longbow Hellfire missiles that successfully struck fast-attack targets during a live-fire missile exercise off the coast of Virginia ...
