John Celli, president of SSL (Space Systems Loral,) will be stepping down after serving the satellites and spacecraft systems company for 36 years, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA), announced Wednesday. Dario Zamarian has been appointed Group President and Paul Estey has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief O...
Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses lessons learned from competition losses, the metrics of success, corporate reorganization, the T-100 trainer, KC-46 tanker, the defense budget and investment during a June 21, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at Paris-Le Bourget...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlY2fdPji8 Bill Regli, DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office (DSO) acting director, describes how DSO scours the frontiers of science and engineering to look for disruptive ideas or revolutionary insights that could open up entirely new domains for innovation and discovery and spark DSO’s program managers to cr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. will supply the internal component of antenna masts for U.S. Navy surface ships under a contract from Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary ArgonST, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The contract covers aluminum welding and assembly at CTC’s environmental technology facility in Joh...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has received a potential five-year, $90.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide hardware and sustainment and training services for video data link devices. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes foreign military sales to Australia and a provision for other eligible ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) has partnered with a ViON subsidiary to integrate their technologies to offer big data analytics in an as-a-service model to commercial and government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. ViON’s Ascolta business said Thursday it will utilize the Hortonwor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 12, 2017 ” A Cubic (NYSE: CUB) subsidiary has built a portable satellite ground station that will work to provide imagery to both commercial and government customers in forward-deployed situations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday its GATR Technologies company within the mission solutions busi...
Bastion Technologies has received a potential eight-year, $267.5 million contract to perform safety and mission assurance support at NASA‘s Huntsville, Alabama-based Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA said Saturday the company will also provide technical and engineering services to MSFC’s safety and mission assur...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up 0.425 percent for the third consecutive day, however was down on the week by 0.184 percent. The major indices closed mixed with the S&P500 down 3.57 points for the week, the DJIA up 95.48 points on the week, and the NASDAQ with a weekly drop of 92.71 points. Friday’s trading...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 6, 2017 ” Cubic‘s (NYSE: CUB) mission solutions organization is working to expand its GATR Technologies satellite communications business with the construction of a 63,000-square-foot facility in Huntsville, Alabama, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday the future facility serves to consol...
