https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ihVeEoUdo Northrop Grumman is proud to lead the industry team building NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This revolutionary observatory is the largest telescope built for space and the most powerful infrared telescope ever made. It is the scientific successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The Webb telescope ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA., January 24, 2017 — The Potomac Officers Club — a division of Executive Mosaic — rounds out speakers for their 2017 Internet of Things – Emerging Technologies Forum. The Internet of Things (IoT)”a term used to describe the set of physical objects embedded with sensors or actuators and connected to a ne...
Boston-based software firm Neurala has received $14 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm Pelion Venture Partners. Neurala will use the funds to meet customer demand and add built-in autonomous behavior and intelligence functions to its deep learning neural networks software that works to make cars, cameras and other d...
Weekly Roundup January 16 – January 20 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson All eyes were on Washington today as Donald Trump took the oath of office on Capitol Hill to become the 45th President of the United States and officially usher in a time we...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 12, 2017 ” NASA has scheduled the launch of Orbital ATK‘s (NYSE: OA) Cygnus spacecraft for the next International Space Station cargo mission on March 16 after the company delivered the vehicle’s pressurized cargo module, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The module will undergo processing and a...
On the International Space Station, Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA floated outside the Quest airlock for a spacewalk to complete half of the work involved to swap out nickel-hydrogen batteries on the station™s truss with new lithium-ion batteries. Kimbrough and Whitson installed adapter plates ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 30, 2016 ” A report prepared by Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) recommends that Congress delegate space management responsibilities to a civilian agency, ExecutiveGov reported Thursday. Space News reported Wednesday that NASA commissioned SAIC to produce the report...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 23, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has demonstrated its new Zombie Pathfinder short-range ballistic missile target at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico as part of NASA™s Sounding Rocket Program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The guided target is designed with a new defensive pr...
December 12 – December 16, 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week reminded us that change is always a constant in the government contracting arena as we learned of an impending relocation by a large defense contractor and the return of a veteran GovCon...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will shift the headquarters of its $31 billion defense segment from the St. Louis metropolitan region to the Washington, D.C. area effective Jan. 3, 2017 for top executives to gain closer proximity with government customers, a company spokesperson has confirmed to GovCon Wire. Close to a dozen senior execut...
