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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvn1tLv0Cwo Newport News Shipbuilding has partnered with 3D Systems to develop additive manufacturing technologies expected to accelerate the adoption of metal 3-D printing in the naval shipbuilding industry....
Christopher Kubasik, president and CEO of L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL), has succeeded Michael Strianese as chairman of the New York City-based defense contractor’s board of directors. Kubasik said in a statement released Monday he will continue to work with L3’s board and management team to implement business transformation and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 4, 2018 ” NTT Group has partnered with Dell Technologies to develop a program that aims to drive digital transformation in Las Vegas and develop its smart city capability, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. NTT Data said Tuesday the group will deploy micro data centers with analytics functions to help the team...
