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...
Bradley Feldmann, president and CEO of Cubic (NYSE: CUB) since July 2014, has been named chairman of the San Diego-based company’s board of directors. Cubic said Monday Feldmann succeeds Walter C. Zable, who held the board chairman role for the past five years. As president and CEO, Feldmann leads Cubic’s efforts to grow its de...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfLI5r2X0Yk February 19, 2018 is the 73rd anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Cpl. Don Graves was there, and to this day he hasn’t forgotten the words he read inscribed on a K-ration fashioned into a makeshift memorial at the 5th Marine Division cemetery at the foot of Mt. Suribachi. May...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebii1JXmD_A During Exercise Iron Fist U.S. Marines train with Japanese service members to improve their combined capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Matthew B. Teutsch)...
