President Donald Trump is expected this week to order the creation of a new combatant command that would focus on space, CNN reported Monday. Vice President Mike Pence is set to visit Tuesday the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Pentagon this week to talk about the administration™s plan for a new space force....
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan™s speech at a National Defense Industrial Association-sponsored briefing on hypersonics. Shanahan said Thursday at the NDIA event that hypersonic technologies need to be operationalized. œThis is about industrial...
Philip Kenul, a former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s homeland security office and head of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, has been named a consultant of ECS‘ science and engineering division. The retired NOAA Corps rear admiral will provide research, strategic development ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 17, 2018 ” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president for Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space business, has said the company’s move to partner with Amazon Web Services to deliver a cloud-based satellite communications ground system is meant to address cost challenges associated with establishing such inf...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 17, 2018 ” SSL continues its support for NASA‘s space exploration efforts with the deployment of a robotic arm to perform operations as part of the space agency’s current InSight mission to study the interior of Mars, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 4. The Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) company...
Janet Foutty, currently chairman and CEOÂ of Deloitte Consulting LLPÂ and previously leader of Deloitte‘s federal practice, has been nominated by the board of directors to the role of U.S. chairman, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The report said the professional services firm’s partners and principals will vote ear...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 14, 2018 ” Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has delivered a unified payment system to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in support of the latter’s effort to establish a single digital hub for transport-related transactions, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 30. The company said Nov. 28 the TAPfor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 14, 2018 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has received a potential $35M task order from the U.S. Marine Corps for research and development work focused on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cyber, electronic warfare and machine learning, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 29. The company said Nov. 2...
Barbie Bigelow, formerly senior vice president and chief information officer of Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC), has been appointed CIO at engineering, construction and consulting services contractor Black & Veatch. She will oversee Black & Veatch’s digital strategy and information technology group that offers tools and...
Howell Estes, a board member at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) since October 2017, has been named chairman of the company™s board of directors in a move that will take effect Jan. 1. He will succeed Robert Phillips, who will continue to serve on the board, the company said Thursday. “Howell’s wealth of experience in service to...
