Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report on the U.S. Air Force™s priorities for 2020 discussed by USAF Undersecretary Matthew Donovan at an Air Force Association event. Donovan said Friday at the AFA event that readiness remains the Air Force™s top priority and that the service plans to increase its operational sq...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on Navy Secretary Richard Spencer‘s speech at the Surface Navy Association’s Annual National Symposium. Spencer, a 2019 Wash100 winner, said at the SNA event that the Navy needs a sense of urgency and to ramp up speed and rate of change to address the œreadine...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 9, 2018 ” Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has said commercial software development could be a key focus of the Department of Defense in 2019 as it works to accelerate weapons systems procurement, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “Focusing on commerci...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 4, 2018 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said the government needs a defined strategy and funding for the acquisition, operations and maintenance of commercial satellite communications capabilities, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 13. Space News re...
A joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin™s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has received a potential seven-year, $1.10B contract from the U.S. Special Operations Command to provide life cycle support for MH-6, MH-47 and MH-60 helicopters. Boeing Sikorsky Aircraft Support will support program management, field service represe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 20, 2018 ” Mitre and its partner Simudyne have unveiled a modeling tool that utilizes data analytics to help central banks and other financial institutions gain insights on market trends and identify potential crisis indicators, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The nonprofit firm said Tuesday it has li...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan™s speech at a National Defense Industrial Association-sponsored briefing on hypersonics. Shanahan said Thursday at the NDIA event that hypersonic technologies need to be operationalized. œThis is about industrial...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 14, 2018 ” Peraton has become a member of a Washington-based trade association that aims to drive the use of commercial satellite technology in national security and other missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Satellite Industry Association President Tom Stroup said Wednesday Peraton brings to the organ...
Consulting firm McAleese and Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the testimony of Dana Deasy, chief information officer at the Department of Defense, at a House Armed Services Committee subpanel hearing on artificial intelligence. Deasy appeared Tuesday before the HASC emerging threats subcommittee to discuss the newly e...
Shareholders in Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) will vote Jan. 16 on whether to approve IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) proposed $34B acquisition of the Raleigh, N.C.-based open source technology provider. A Dec. 11 record date has been established for Red Hat’s special meeting of stockholders, the company said Monday. IBM first announced...
