TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 30, 2018 ” An affiliate of General Atomics will develop, deliver and sustain software for the Air Force Special Operations Command’s and Air Combat Command’s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle under a potential $49.3 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Depar...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 22, 2018 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has entered into an agreement with Department 13 International for the joint development and sale of counter-drone technologies for defense customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 8. D13 said Jan. 8 the teaming deal initially focuses on business opportunities for its Mesmer counter...
Jeff Smith, a retired U.S. Army major general with more than 30 years of leadership experience, has been named vice president of business development at Harris (NYSE: HRS). Harris said Thursday Smith will oversee the company’s strategic relationships with the Army, Special Operations Command and industry partners in his new posi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, JANUARY 16, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” has added two panelists to its list of speakers for the third Defense Research and Development Summit. The panelists are: Dr. Thomas Burns (DARPA) and Maj. Gen. William Cooley (Air Force Research Laboratory). Given the rapid pace at...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, JANUARY 4, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” will be hosting its third Defense Research and Development Summit on January 31st at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner. Given the rapid pace at which technology advances in the private sector, the Department of Defense has been taking a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 2, 2018 ” Michael Conlin, chief technologist for DXC Technology‘s U.S. public sector business, has said the company is eyeing opportunities across the full range of technology development while working to address its clients’ challenges associated with people and processes. He told ExecutiveBiz in an intervie...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2017 ” General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has tapped Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) to provide integrated product and process development support for the U.S. Navy‘s Columbia-class submarines under a potential $468 million subcontract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. HII said Tuesday its Newport News ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 27, 2017 ” Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of Hughes Network Systems‘ defense and intelligence systems unit, has said the company is working with partners such as OneWeb to pursue opportunities from the emergence of the “new space” or Space 2.0 sector in efforts to meet the connectivity n...
On November 19th at 11 am on WJLA; and 6PM on News Channel 8 Host of The Bridge Jim McCarthy “ was joined by R. Dennis Gibbs (Director, Center for Agile Innovation, GDIT), Dr. Patrick McConnell, (Director, Agile Center of Excellence, CSRA) and Victoria Figaro, (President, The EndGoal Group) to discuss in-depth the Agile development process...
In software development the traditional approach, dubbed ‘Waterfall‘, is linear and breaks the development phases into increments of Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing. A common constraint of Waterfall is that since coding is only begun three-quarters of the way through, potential pitfalls or errors don’t surface until the projec...
