Michael Smith, formerly executive vice president for strategy and development at Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), has been named president of HII™s SN3 business. He will directly report to Michael Lempke, president of the company™s nuclear and environmental group, HII said Wednesday. HII™s strategy and develop...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) posted $1.72 billion in revenue for the full fiscal year 2017 that ended Dec. 31, up from $1.6 billion in FY 2016. ManTech said Wednesday it recorded $98.2 million in FY 2017 operating income, which reflects an 8 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. The company attributed the revenue growth to...
John Jumper, former chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), is due to retire from the company’s board of directors at the end of his term. Leidos said Wednesday it has launched a search for Jumper’s successor on the seat that he will vacate after his departure from the board. He joined the company in March 2012...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtxIhjKczz4 On Feb. 16, Norway completed a successful test of the F-35 drag chute system at Ørland Air Force Base. The drag chute ” unique to the Norwegian aircraft ” is designed and form fitted to maintain stealth characteristics. The system is housed under a small fairing on the upper rear fus...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 21, 2018 ” Stuart Dyer, business development manager at CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE), has said data center services continue to be in demand in northern Virginia as the company sees its data center campuses fully leased ahead of schedule, ExecutiveBiz reported. “We™re working on our third campus, and it™s...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 21, 2018 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received recognition for its diversity and inclusion programs as part of Forbes’ inaugural Best Employers for Diversity list, which covers the top 250 qualified companies across all sectors in the U.S., GovCon Executive reported. The company said it ranked No. 159 based ...
The State Department has approved the Dutch government™s request to procure from the U.S. government equipment and services to support upgrades to AH-64D Block II Apache attack helicopters under a potential $1.2 billion foreign military sales agreement. Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as principal con...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYwG6M5raXc Military Working Dogs are a vital part of today’s fighting force. With built-in radar, they are able to smell out trouble that no human or man-made device can. K-9 teams in the Army provide a variety of support, from patrol work around base to searches during health-and-welfare inspections and sweeps...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SMSgaRe8zQ In this episode of Voices from DARPA, COL Matthew Hepburn, a program manager since 2013 with the Agency™s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), explains how his urgent ambition to develop ways and means of disarming current and emerging infectious and pandemic diseases”think here of Ebola, influe...
A subsidiary of Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) has won a potential five-year, $108 million contract to help manage U.S. Army dining facilities in Kuwait. Vectrus Systems will provide equipment, personnel, supplies, tools, materials and transportation services under the Kuwait Dining Facilities 3.0 contract, the company said Tuesday. Ch...
