Jon Arena, former senior counsel of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) global services segment, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as vice president and chief counsel of its Newport News Shipbuilding division. He succeeds Jim Gildea and will advise the division’s senior management on legal matters in his new positi...
An experimental satellite that Orbital ATK built for the U.S. Air Force took off Saturday aboard United Launch Alliance™s Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Orbital ATK said Sunday the ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Experiment satellite that launched as part of the Air Force Space Command-11 mission hosted...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has received a potential six-year, $144 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force expand, operate and maintain the network environment infrastructure of a military information system. The Defense Department said Friday GDMS will support the global U.S. Battlefield Inform...
The University of Virginia has emerged as the winner of the Raytheon-sponsored (NYSE: RTN) 2018 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for its efforts to safeguard a fictional biotech company™s network from persistent cyber threats. Teams from top 10 universities took part in the three-day NCCDC championship that started Friday, April 13...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWR1KqeZBoY&t=7s The F-35 program has accomplished the final developmental test flight of the System Design and Demonstration (SDD) phase of the program. The developmental flight test program has conducted more than 9,200 sorties, accumulated over 17,000 flight hours, and executed more than 65,000 test points to v...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2018 ” Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has received the 2018 Edison Achievement Award for her contributions to the technology field through her professional career, achievements and leadership, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. Lockheed said Thursday the Edison Awards S...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 13, 2018 ” Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) HorizonX Ventures division has invested in Reaction Engines in an effort to help the latter develop a hypersonic propulsion technology aimed at enhancing the next generation of hypersonic flight and space access vehicles, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. HorizonX Ventures par...
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Google are emerging as potential main contenders for the Defense Department‘s planned 10-year, $10 billion cloud procurement contract, Defense One reported Thursday. The report said DoD could issue a request for proposals its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud progra...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2018 ” The International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission has given Alexandria, Virginia-based Technical and Project Engineering certification for its cybersecurity practices, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The ISO/IEC 27013:2015 certification builds on TAPE™...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 3, 2018 ” George Krivo, CEO of DynCorp International, has said the company is seeing opportunity for continued top- and bottom-line growth amid the current fiscal environment and the “attractiveness” of the company’s core logistics and aviation markets. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Ma...
