At the Fast Company Creativity Counterconference (FC/LA) attendees experienced a rare behind-the-scenes visit to global aerospace and security company Northrop Grumman. Touring the company’s FabLab maker space, attendees encountered inventive technologies”from endurance quadcopters to autonomous vehicles and extensive 3D printing faciliti...
Gary Rosholt, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and former U.S. Special Operations Command Central deputy commanding general, has joined L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) as vice president for Middle East operations. He will be oversee L3’s business across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other locations in the Middle East an...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY43R4bdGcY In her final “all hands” presentation to Agency staff, Former DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar walked through a selection of DARPA research programs, highlighting the Agency’s objectives for the research and its potential impact. Not every effort discussed will be successful, Prabhakar said...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 3, 2017 ” John Borghard, senior vice president for public sector sales at CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA), has said the company’s projects with government in 2017 will focus on the areas of cybersecurity, agile and DevOps. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Tuesday that CA will work to ...
Matthew Bromberg, a 15-year veteran of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) and president of the commercial engines aftermarket business of its Pratt & Whitney subsidiary, has been appointed to serve as president of the subsidiary’s military engines unit by May. Pratt & Whitney said Tuesday that Bromberg will succeed th...
The U.S. Navy has awarded nine companies positions on a potential five-year, $249.8 million contract to provide logistics and program management support services to the Naval Air Systems Command™s logistics integration department. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Maryland received 11 bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indef...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 27, 2017 ” Advanced Concepts and Technologies International will provide logistics support for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s AN/TSC-168 TDC Quad-Band satellite communications terminal under a five-year, $16 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The task order also inc...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Infoscitex have received contract modifications worth $75 million combined to continue to provide research and development support in the areas of human perception and cognitive technologies for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the modifications to a previously awarded indefini...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher Tuesday on a lift from Boeing (NYSE: BA) and government services stocks as Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) fell after the defense contractor reported material weaknesses related to internal controls for financial statements at its Sikorsky helicopter subsidiary. All three major U.S. stock indices also...
Charles Kriete, formerly chief marketing officer of Kore Wireless Group, has joined TESSCO Technologies (Nasdaq: TESS) as senior vice president for product management and solutions at the Hunt Valley, Maryland-based wireless communications technology supplier. Kriete will report directly to Murray Wright, TESSCO president and CEO, and...
