The State Department has cleared a potential $366.2 million foreign military sale of a Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) transport aircraft, equipment and support services to India. India ordered an additional C-17 Globemaster III aircraft equipped with four turbofan F-117-PW-100 engines, one AN/AAR-47 missile warning system and one AN/APX-119 ident...
Caryn Nightengale, formerly director of corporate development at Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security segment, has joined Sunnyvale, California-based unmanned maritime systems maker Liquid Robotics as chief financial officer. She will report to Gary Gysin, Liquid Robotics™ president and CEO, and oversee financial management...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx3u4a7RNvw Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, provides the weekly update to Pentagon reporters via teleconference from Baghdad on the coalition’s progress in the effort to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, March 1, 2017....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 26, 2017 ” Thomson Reuters has partnered with Vigilant Solutions to integrate the latter’s database of license plate recognition records into the CLEAR investigation platform in efforts to support law enforcement operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The integrated offering works to utilize license p...
Boecore has won a potential five-year, $93 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to sustain, operate and maintain a shared early warning system designed to alert the U.S., NATO and foreign partner nations of ballistic missile launches. Seven offers were submitted to the Air Force for the SEWS support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-...
Michael Strianese, chairman and CEO of L3 Technologies, discusses the company™s 2017 Paris Air Show offerings, the changing security environment, airport security, the merger-and-acquisitions outlook, combatting the US Defense Department™s readiness and training shortages and more during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Edi...
Weekly Roundup June 19 – June 23 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Although the phrase œSpace Race brings to mind the Cold War-era struggle between the United States and Soviet Union for supremacy in spaceflight capabilities, it may begin to develop ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has partnered with Kongsberg to offer a precision missile system to the U.S. Navy under the service branch’s solicitation for an over-the-horizon capability for littoral combat ships and frigates, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Raytheon said Wednesday it will pro...
Marines are ready to launch a 3-D-printed drone, nicknamed the “Nibbler,” into combat zones in the upcoming weeks, reports 3D Printing Industry. The Nibbler would be able to operate like other, far more expensive unmanned aircraft and conduct “over the hill” intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The Nibbler is compos...
Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general manager of enterprise group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has been promoted to president at the Palo Alto, California-based technology company. Neri will oversee HPE™s four primary business lines and the company™s HPE Next efforts that aim to streamline operations, seek new gr...
