Chris Pogue, a General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) veteran, has joined Maxar Technologies™ (NYSE: MAXR) MDA business as president of the newly created government division. Pogue will directly report to Mike Greenley, MDA group president, and oversee defense, enterprise information technology, Earth observation systems and government space rob...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMAHkm7W964 Originally published on May 9, 2018 Orbital ATK™s vision for the next step toward human space missions to Mars employs our flight-proven Cygnus advanced maneuvering spacecraft as a human habitat in cislunar space, the region between the Moon and Earth. In the early 2020s we would launch the initial ha...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 21 companies positions on a potential five-year, $960 million contract for program management support services to the Naval Air Systems Command. NAVAIR received 84 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a small business set-aside solicitation process, the Defense Department said Wednes...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) wrapped up its approximately $9.2 billion purchase of Orbital ATK on Wednesday and will now run the newly acquired company as its fourth business sector called Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems. Blake Larson, most recently chief operating officer at Orbital ATK, has been elected by the board as corporate vice pres...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0omMcNmWKA Named after the Celtic god of Thunder, Taranis is the most advanced military aircraft ever designed and flown by the United Kingdom. The technology demonstrator is the result one-and-a-half million hours of work by leading scientists, aerodynamicists and systems engineers from 250 UK companies. However, al...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 31, 2018 ” General Atomics™ aeronautical systems unit has created an industry team aimed at addressing Canada™s requirements for multimission remotely piloted aircraft systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it partnered with CAE, L3 Technologies™ (NYSE: LLL) Wescam subsidiar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvgDOLHu7Uo Orbital ATK™s Cygnus spacecraft launched to the International Space Station aboard an Antares rocket on May 21, and is scheduled to arrive at the orbiting laboratory in the early morning hours of May 24. Among the research it will deliver to the station is the Cold Atom Lab (CAL), a facility to create...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4_QxyC8nsc The new Cold Atom Lab (CAL) facility is among the cargo launching to the International Space Station on the Orbital ATK CRS-9 mission. The Cold Atom Lab could help answer some big questions in modern physics. CAL produces clouds of atoms that are ten billion times colder than deep space. The facilit...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 18, 2018 ” The Defense Department has approved CA Technologies™ (Nasdaq: CA) CA Privileged Access Manager system as a cybersecurity tool certified under the DoD Information Network™s Approved Product List and the National Information Assurance Partnership™s Product Compliant List, ExecutiveBiz reported Thur...
Torch Technologies has received a potential five-year, $221.3 million contract to provide modernization and sustainment services to the U.S. Army‘s system simulation and development directorate. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will help the directorate update a suite of missile modeling, hardware-in-the-loop and prototypi...
