TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 14, 2018 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will soon move forward to the final test phase on NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope to prepare it for transport to the Kourou launch site in French Guiana, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. NASA said Monday Northrop will conduct the final tests on the observatory...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 14, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will pitch its Mini Hit-to-Kill missile for the U.S. Army‘s effort to integrate a new weapon with the Indirect Fires Protection Capability multi-mission launcher, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Defense News reported Monday the IFPC Increment 2 program seek...
The U.S. Transportation Command will now start the migration of data and applications to an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform designed to host intelligence community clients™ workloads classified at the œsecret level, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Trancom™s decision to move data to the AWS Secret Region came after Microso...
Esina Alic, who served as a vice president at Insitu between 2007 and 2015, will return to the Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary as president and CEO, effective April 5. Insitu said Tuesday Alic oversaw global operations, corporate strategy, international growth and partnerships during her career at the unmanned aerial syste...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business has received a potential $1.46 billion modification under a U.S. Navy advance acquisition contract for the low-rate initial production of F-35 air systems. The modification funds long-lead material and parts Lockheed will need to manufacture 145 lot 13 aircraft for the U.S. military services, ...
Adriane Brown, formerly president and chief operating officer of Intellectual Ventures, has been elected to the board of directors of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN). Thomas Kennedy, Raytheon chairman and CEO and a 2018 Wash100 recipient, said in a statement published Tuesday Brown™s insights and international experience across various industries would ad...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 13, 2018 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is set to integrate the Azure Stack hybrid cloud with Azure Government cloud in mid-2018 in efforts to support government users’ data processing and analysis as well as application development and modernization operations, ExecutiveBiz reported. Natalia Mackevicius, directo...
Ted Fordyce, vice president of government relations at Elbit Systems™ (Nasdaq: ESLT) U.S. arm, has assumed the additional role of VP for the subsidiary™s Washington operations. Fordyce will serve as Elbit Systems of America™s liaison to the White House, Congress and federal agencies such as the departments of Homeland Security an...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 12, 2018 ” Melvin Greer, chief data scientist at Intel‘s (Nasdaq: INTC) public sector business, has said an ethical standard in programming artificial intelligence platforms should be top of mind for developers to mitigate the abuse of the technology, ExecutiveBiz reported. Bisnow reported that Greer told the audi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 12, 2018 ” A General Atomics business unit has completed a demonstration of an acoustic detection system during the U.S. Army‘s Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment in Oklahoma, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems participated at the e...
