Defense Secretary nominee James Mattis has agreed to resign from his board position at General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and divest all of his business holdings with the company if the Senate confirms him as the next leader of the Defense Department, Politico reported Saturday. Jeremy Herb and Connor O™Brien write Mattis, who ...
On the International Space Station, Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA floated outside the Quest airlock for a spacewalk to complete half of the work involved to swap out nickel-hydrogen batteries on the station™s truss with new lithium-ion batteries. Kimbrough and Whitson installed adapter plates ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 6, 2017 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) CEO Matt Desch has stated the company’s Iridium NEXT satellite constellation project will seek to address the future requirements of government and private customers and provide a potential alternative to GPS navigation, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” SpaceX has scheduled the initial launch of Iridium Communications‘ (Nasdaq: IRDM) NEXT satellites on Jan. 8 after investigations revealed cause of the Falcon 9 rocket explosion, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Washington Post reported Monday the company discovered the cause to be a press...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has stated government organizations should take steps to employ a cyber situational awareness model to support cybersecurity collaboration, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The model should incorporate analytics and en...
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Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) subsidiary, has received a $313.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to help maintain F119-PW-100 engines. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers necessary parts for engine sustainment. Work will occur in Connecticut, ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 19, 2016 ” The U.S. Air Force has awarded Battelle a potential five-year, $9.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and development, operations and maintenance support services, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Battelle’s staff will assist in the daily operations of the Air Force ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keNf_NFKqTQ Marines of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, conduct operations during Integrated Training Exercise 1-17 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms....
The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to buy equipment and support services for the recapitalization of 218 General Dynamics-built (NYSE: GD) Abrams M1A2 main battle tanks under a potential $1.7 billion foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government. The Defense Security Cooperation Ag...
