https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz1zQwT7Drc Our Integrated Assembly Line (IAL) marked a significant accomplishment and entered full-rate production of the F-35 Lightning II center fuselage. This milestone marks the beginning of a 1.5-day production interval (PI) meaning a center fuselage will be produced off the assembly line every day and a half. T...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has appointed two executives to new senior vice president roles in a move that takes effect immediately. Christopher Donaghey, formerly SVP of finance for operations, has been named SVP of corporate development and will directly report to CEO Tony Moraco, SAIC said Tuesday. Donaghey will ove...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a potential 10-year, $364.7 million contract from the Energy Department to provide research support services for DOE™s National Energy Technology Laboratory. DOE announced the contract award to Leidos through a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. A solicitation published in August 2017 says the cost-plus-award-fee contr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 25, 2018 ” In-Q-Tel has selected Focal Systems among 12 finalist startup companies that offered various artificial intelligence technologies as part of a competition that drew more than 70 candidates across industry, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. IQT said Thursday Focal Systems, a developer of smart shopping ca...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehdHoO6YfOQ Jon Piatt, vice president for strategy and business development at L3 Insight Technology’s L3 Warrior Sensor Systems business, discusses the company’s partnership with Air Tractor on the AT-802L Longsword aircraft, its US Army night-vision goggle contract and expansion plans within that market,...
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...
