TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 26, 2017 ” Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress and Broadband Global Area Network satellite services will be available to the Defense Department through value-added reseller COMSAT under a blanket purchase agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. COMSAT will utilize the networks to support Intern...
The Trump administration’s 2018 budget calls for $640 billion in military spending, $52 billion over current year spending and breaking the current budget caps. Nevertheless, the Pentagon claims it has found “efficiency” savings of $1.2 billion in savings for fiscal year 2018, reports Federal News Radio, and that this will res...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgZH32edCN0 John Roth, performing the duties of Defense Department chief financial officer and comptroller, and Army Lt. Gen. Anthony R. Ierardi, Joint Staff director of force structure, resources and assessment, brief Pentagon reporters on the president’s fiscal year 2018 defense budget proposal, May 23, 2017....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0pkkql5K9E DoD™s Lab Day event held in the Pentagon™s courtyard, May 18, 2017, showcased more than 80 exhibits of technical innovations developed by scientists and engineers who work in the defense laboratory enterprise’s nationwide network of 63 defense labs, warfare centers and engineering centers....
Eric Gillman, research physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses dusty plasma, its potential applications for defense innovation, “Big Bang Theory” and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon on May 18, 2017....
Jack Logan, PhD, electrical engineer at the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses low-cost, ultra-wideband phased array antennas and their potential applications for the US Navy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during DoD Lab Day 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on May 18, 2017....
Weekly Roundup May 1 – May 5 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Earlier this week, Congress finally reached an agreement on the contentious fiscal 2017 budget. The $1.16 trillion omnibus spending bill allocates $598.5 billion in discretionary funding to the Dep...
Jennifer O’Connor, former general counsel at the Defense Department, has joined Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) as vice president, associate general counsel and sector counsel for the company’s mission systems sector. Northrop said Friday she will succeed the retiring James Stephenson and report to Sheila Cheston, corporate v...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iva8PjSbDMA The Defense Department is using less energy. Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., was one of the first military bases to adopt solar panels to increase energy efficiency. Solar panels help to minimize the base™s carbon footprint and use an energy source that is abundant at Nellis, which averages about 160 day...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2017 ” A business unit of General Atomics will provide a lithium-ion battery system for a portable unmanned underwater vehicle as part of a contract with the Defense Department, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will supply it...
