Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will support weapons certification and electronic warfare analysis efforts for Israel’s F-35 Lightning II aircraft under a $147.9 million modified contract with the U.S. Navy. The company’s aeronautics business will also obtain modification kits to support the design and development of F-35 syst...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGUPY_e1ENc In this episode of Voices from DARPA, electrical engineer Kerry Bernstein, a program manager since 2012 with the Agency™s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), chronicles how his decades of experience in the trenches of the microelectronics manufacturing world drives what he does at DARPA. He is all a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 2, 2018 ” A General Atomics business unit will work to build capacitors with high energy density that will serve as components of future high-power microwave systems for the U.S. Navy, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the contract – awarded to its electromagnetic ...
Giovanna “Gio” Patterson, most recently vice president for Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) health business at the National Institutes of Health, passed away Sunday at the age of 53, GovCon Wire has learned. She played a key role in the development of the business unit’s analytics growth platform as well as the integrat...
Alan Dietrich, formerly deputy group manager for Alion Science and Technology™s digital solutions group, has been appointed senior vice president and manager of the firm™s rapid solutions group. Dietrich will oversee the McLean, Virginia-based technology services contractor™s systems integration and engineering operations as well...
Thomas Bell, senior vice president of global sales and marketing at Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, will rejoin Rolls-Royce this month as president of the aircraft engine manufacturer’s defense arm. Rolls-Royce said Wednesday Bell initially joined the company in mid-2012 as pre...
Michael Mayberry, formerly corporate vice president at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), has been promoted by the board of directors to senior VP and chief technology officer as part of a series of leadership changes at the Santa Clara, California-based technology firm. Mayberry will continue to lead global computing and communications research programs as mana...
A Boeing-led (NYSE: BA) team has received a six-year, $6.56 billion contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue the production and sustainment of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense ballistic missile defense system. The modification covers the delivery of a new missile field with 20 additional silos; two additional sil...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 31, 2018 ” Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) HorizonX ventures unit has placed an investment with California-based startup Cuberg for further development of the latter’s battery cell technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cuberg designed the battery with a lithium metal anode, a high-voltage cathode and proprietar...
Over 200 industry professionals were attendance on Wednesday as the Potomac Officers Club convened at the Defense Research and Development Summit to discuss the programs that those in the intelligence community know that they cannot talk about without a clearance. Given the rapid pace that technology advances in the private sector, the Department of...
