TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 22, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) and NASA are considering the window between Oct. 9 and 13 to launch the sixth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station under the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The space agency said Wednesday a...
Jim Chilton, vice president of strategic missiles and defense systems at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been promoted to president of the aerospace and defense contractor’s network and space systems business in a move that takes effect Oct. 21. Boeing said Thursday the 32-year company veteran will succeed Craig Cooning, who ha...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 22, 2016 ” John Lee, vice president for cloud services at Carahsoft Technology, has outlined the impact of the General Services Administration‘s initiative to accelerate the authorization process for cloud service providers under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, ExecutiveBiz re...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 22, 2016 ” Chris Pehrson, senior director of strategic development at General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business, has said unmanned aerial vehicles should have added functionalities to support mission reassignment, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Pehrson was one of the participants in a discussion of the...
The State Department has given Japan the go-ahead to purchase the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft and related support from the U.S. government under a potential $1.9 billion foreign military sales agreement. Japan asked to procure four KC-46A aerial refueling planes equipped with Raytheon-made (NYSE: RTN) A...
Mark Benjamin, a 24-year veteran of human resources management firm Automatic Data Processing (Nasdaq: ADP), has been named president and chief operating officer of Georgia-based consumer transaction technology provider NCR (NYSE: NCR). He will report directly to NCR Chairman and CEO Bill Nuti and be responsible for the company’...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $395 million contract modification to build the ninth and 10th Global Positioning System III space vehicles for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force exercised an option in a previously awarded GPS III production contract and obligated $373.4 million for the modification from the military branch&...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential six-year, $254.6 million contract to design, build, integrate and test a Joint Precision Approach and Landing System for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Raytheon will continue to develop eight existing JPALS engineering development models and build ...
L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has been awarded a potential $238.2 million contract by the U.S. Navy to develop and manufacture passive sonar receiver technology for installation on submarines. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide a first article TB-29X towed array receiver unit, production tow...
Sujey Edward, formerly vice president of Salient CRGT™s Agile Innovation Center and Agile Center of Excellence, has joined Octo Consulting Group as chief technology officer. He will report directly to Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani and be responsible for the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based contractor’s information technology ...
