Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been selected to support a $442.9 million effort to upgrade the Australian air force’s fleet of E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft. The service branch said Wednesday Boeing will equip E-7As with new combat identification sensors, tactical data links and communication and en...
Jin Kang, formerly executive vice president and chief operations officer at WidePoint (NYSE: WYY), has been promoted to president and CEO at the McLean, Virginia-based managed mobility services provider. He will serve as a member of WidePoint™s board of directors and succeeds Jeff Nyweide, who resigned from his posts six months after he joined ...
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has closed its acquisition of NES Associates in a push to help government clients accelerate adoption of new information technology platforms for their digital transformation efforts. CSRA President and CEO Larry Prior first announced the deal at the company’s 2017 fiscal-year earnings call held May 24. Prior, an in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvsgdiFmCZo Capt. Michael Gucwa an, AV-8B Harrier pilot with VMA-311, explains the training and importance of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) while underway in the Pacific Ocean, June 9, 2017. During the flight Harrier pilots fired the (APKWS), a laser-guided r...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2017 ” Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said a combination of automation technology and a highly skilled workforce will help DoD build on its cybersecurity, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. He wrote in a guest piece published S...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2017 ” Stacy Schwartz, vice president of public safety within AT&T‘s (NYSE: T) government solutions business, has said in an interview she believes diversity in points of view and in the workforce serves to bring competitive advantage to the company, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. She told Fe...
U.S. Cyber Command leaders say they learned valuable, specific and applicable lessons at last year™s Cyber Flag exercise including that it’s not always necessary to deploy the whole 39-person cyber protection team, or CPT. “There’s real traction that happens from these lessons learned,” an exercise leader told C4ISRNet, ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 5, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received the 2017 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Security Service for compliance with security requirements under the National Industrial Security Program, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company sa...
After North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile Monday, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. That meeting will likely be held Wednesday with the 15-member council, as concerns mount that the regime is developing an inter-continental ballistic missile that ca...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg-FH1Gn2Ls On Friday, June 30th, at a ceremony at the Manhattan campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ New York Harbor Health Care System, two veterans living with arm amputations became the first recipients of a new generation of prosthetic limb that promises them unprecedented, near-natural arm and han...
