TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 18, 2018 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has unveiled the Next Generation Launch system rocket dubbed OmegA at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado as the company continues to pursue work under the U.S. Air Force‘s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said M...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 18, 2018 ” A business unit of General Atomics has conducted a demonstration of flight deck taxi and launch-and-recovery operations aboard an aircraft carrier using the Predator C Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle in support of the company’s bid on the U.S. Navy‘s MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based tan...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Deloitte a potential five-year, $800 million contract for audit readiness and financial management support services. The service received three bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that will run through July 22, 2023, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The contract will include financial stat...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential $362.7 million contract to design, test and field an autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle for the U.S. Navy to neutralize explosive devices. The company will develop the Barracuda mine neutralization system to help the service branch counter bottom, near-surface and dr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 17, 2018 ” Mike Kahn, defense group president at Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), has said the company has expanded weapons facilities to support readiness for the anticipated rise in the demand for munitions and missiles from the Defense Department, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company has also hired 1,000 addition...
Paul Oostburg Sanz, former general counsel at the Department of the Navy, has been appointed to the same position at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He will lead APL™s Office of Technology Transfer and continue to serve as strategic adviser to the lab’s director for commercialization, APL said Thursday. At DON, O...
Shawn Rodriguez, regional vice president of U.S. state and local government and education at ForeScout Technologies (Nasdaq: FSCT), has said agencies that aim to secure complex networks from cyber threats should implement an adaptive security strategy that works to offer insight into connected devices and related risks. œA critical core to adap...
Polaris Alpha has purchased Columbia, Maryland-based Fourth Dimension Engineering for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand its footprint in the cybersecurity market. Fourth Dimension co-founders Tom Conrad and Faith Horowitz will join Polaris Alpha™s leadership team as a result of the transaction that officially closed Wednesday, April 1...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 16, 2018 ” Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) will reactivate its shipbuilding facilities on the Pascagoula River™s east bank in Mississippi in preparation for future naval ship construction and modernization programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. HII said Thursday the two-year project, which will restore t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 16, 2018 ” Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has named Venkata Renduchintala, currently chief engineering officer and president of the client and internet-of-things businesses and systems architecture at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), to the audit committee of the former’s board of directors, ExecutiveBiz repo...
