Textron (NYSE: TXT) is acquiring Waterboro, Maine-based robotic ground vehicle manufacturer Howe & Howe Technologies for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand autonomous technology offerings across land, sea and air domains. The industrial conglomerate said Thursday Howe & Howe’s vehicles and applications will complemen...
Grace Lee, former senior vice president of global human resources at biotechnology firm Charles River Laboratories (NYSE: CRL), has been appointed chief HR and diversity officer at at Cubic (NYSE: CUB). Her appointment is effective Oct. 29 and she will oversee Cubic’s diversity strategy as well as talent management, diversity st...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) joint venture United Launch Alliance has received a potential $152.4M contract to produce a heavy rocket for the National Reconnaissance Office‘s Launch Mission One. The Defense Department said Wednesday ULA will help the agency launch the mission with a heavy confi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 24, 2018 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has established partnerships with Cybraics and Authentic8 in an effort to advance artificial intelligence, analytics and isolated browser technology to bolster the cybersecurity of financial, health, electoral and other critical infrastructure systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 3....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 24, 2018 ” Cubic (NYSE: CUB) Chairman, President and CEO Bradley Feldmann will join the National Association of Corporate Directors fellowship program as a board leadership fellow, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday NACD fellows are part of an annual program of study aimed to generate insights...
Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has promoted Marietta Hannigan, a 19-year company veteran, to chief strategy and communications officer, and named Madhuri Andrews, former chief information officer at DynCorp International, as CIO. Steve Demetriou, Jacobs chairman and CEO, said in a statement published Tuesday the appointments are part of t...
Darren Kraabel, formerly senior vice president and general manager of mission solutions for aerospace, technology, environment and nuclear business at Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC), has elevated to the role of chief technology and innovation officer. His appointment is part of the company™s expansion efforts in the professional serv...
General Atomics™ aeronautical systems business has received a $192.7M contract modification to provide logistics services for the U.S. Army‘s Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system. Army Contracting Command will obligate $41.8M at the time of award from the service branch’s fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance funds, the Defense D...
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) expects Chinese regulators to approve its planned $30B purchase of Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) within weeks, Reuters reported Tuesday. UTC CEO Greg Hayes said Tuesday in a conference call the company does not expect the U.S.-China political issues to have an impact on the deal citing UTC™s invest...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 23, 2018 ” Dave Vennergrund, director of data and analytics at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has said federal agencies can utilize the cloud as a platform for the development of artificial intelligence technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 1. He wrote Sept. 27 in a company blog...
