TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 9, 2018 ” Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has unveiled a new facility in Australia to supply its defense customers in the country with target and tactical autonomous drones and range support systems, ExecutiveBiz said Friday. The company said Thursday the inauguration of the New South Wale...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 9, 2018 ” Tiffanny Gates, president and CEO of Novetta, has said the analytics company is building on its machine learning capability for application to text, images and behaviors in line with opportunities in the defense and intelligence sector. She told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Wednesday that Novett...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 9, 2018 ” ViON will collaborate with the University of Wisconsin System in a move to help the latter’s chief information officers deploy data storage and backup platforms and advance its information technology modernization initiative, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company said Thursday it will s...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 9, 2018 ” General Atomics has completed a nearly 24-hour endurance flight with the extended-range version of its Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft in efforts to test its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the&nb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 6, 2018 ” The U.S. Army has launched an interactive training technology developed by Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to train soldiers on the management and operations of the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite communications program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Northrop said Wednesday the Wideband Training and Certificat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 6, 2018 ” NASA™s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected SSL, a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), to design and build a critical system for spacecraft designed to perform investigative flybys to explore Jupiter™s Europa moon, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. SSL said Tuesday it will develop the Rem...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 6, 2018 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has tested the SR 118 rocket motor technology in preparation for the Ascent Abort 2 Flight Test, which seeks to assess a system designed to keep astronauts safe if a problem occurs during spacecraft ascent, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Orion prime contractor ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 6, 2018 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has worked with the U.S. Air Force to complete fuel on-load tests on its KC-46 aerial tanker aircraft as part of the certification process with the Federal Aviation Administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Supplemental Type Certificate process includ...
Weekly Roundup April 2 – April 6, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes DoD FY 2019 Budget & Wash100 Update Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO On March 23rd, President Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill for fiscal year 2019 which allocates $686.1 billion for the Department of Defense™s bud...
The State Department has approved a potential $1.3 billion foreign military sale of 155mm M109A5/A6 medium self-propelled howitzer structures and associated equipment to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia asked to buy 180 M109A5/A6 self-propelled howitzer structures from the U.S. government for conversion into 177 155mm M109A6 Paladin medium self-propelled ...
