TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 18, 2018 ” A business unit of General Atomics has conducted a demonstration of flight deck taxi and launch-and-recovery operations aboard an aircraft carrier using the Predator C Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle in support of the company’s bid on the U.S. Navy‘s MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based tan...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 17, 2018 ” Mike Kahn, defense group president at Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), has said the company has expanded weapons facilities to support readiness for the anticipated rise in the demand for munitions and missiles from the Defense Department, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company has also hired 1,000 addition...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 17, 2018 ” Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has received the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award for her contribution to the maritime industry and national security, ExecutiveBiz reported April 9. The Navy League of the United States awarded the recognit...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 17, 2018 ” The U.S. Navy has granted Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division a $65 million contract modification for the acquisition of additional long lead time material for the future USS Enterprise aircraft carrier, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The full amount of the ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 17, 2018 ” An industry team led by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has hosted the christening ceremony for the U.S. Navy™s 17th Littoral Combat Ship at a shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Saturday the future USS Indianapolis ship will continue to undergo tests and ass...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 17, 2018 ” The U.S. Air Force has given KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) global government services unit a 54-month, $32.3 million task order to perform systems engineering services in support of the service branch™s effort to enhance the operational capability and efficiency of its air and space systems, ExecutiveBiz ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 16, 2018 ” Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) will reactivate its shipbuilding facilities on the Pascagoula River™s east bank in Mississippi in preparation for future naval ship construction and modernization programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. HII said Thursday the two-year project, which will restore t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 16, 2018 ” Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has named Venkata Renduchintala, currently chief engineering officer and president of the client and internet-of-things businesses and systems architecture at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), to the audit committee of the former’s board of directors, ExecutiveBiz repo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 16, 2018 ” Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) now offers spectral support services in a bid to bolster the federal government™s space situational awareness, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Its spectral services group is geared to provide radio-frequency signal data to enable government age...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 16, 2018 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has submitted a bid for one of the U.S. Air Force‘s Launch Services Agreements, with the company’s Next Generation Launch system as the rocket on offer, in response to the service branch’s efforts to identify multiple launch options for national security satellite...
