Michael Knowles, former vice president and general manager of the air ranges business unit within Cubic™s (NYSE: CUB) global defense segment, has been named corporate senior VP and president of the segment in a move that will take effect Oct. 1. Knowles will succeed Dave Buss, a corporate SVP who will assume the role of senior...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 17, 2018 ” A Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) command-and-control system for the U.S. Army‘s air defense assets has completed testing of its long-range network management capability during a five-week soldier checkout event, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Integrated Air and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 14, 2018 ” Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) Astro Aerospace business has opened a new manufacturing center in Ventura County, California, that will house the production of satellite structures and other space-based hardware, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday the 140,000-square-foot fac...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 10, 2018 ” A Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) spacecraft is scheduled to launch Sept. 15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base to perform a mission for NASA that aims to collect data on Earth™s changing terrain, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The space agency said Wednesday the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation...
NASA has chosen 13 companies to explore future opportunities for non-governmental entities to conduct U.S. manned spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and other low-Earth orbit destinations. The space agency said Thursday studies will delve into conceptualization of business plans that will discuss the feasibility of using fr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 6, 2018 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has partnered with RapidSOS to integrate their emergency response technologies and deliver a service that will work to enable first responders to locate people seeking help via connected devices such as smartphones, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The RapidSOS Next-Generation 9...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 3, 2018 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has completed its clean-room work to prepare NASA‘s Parker Solar Probe for launch after mating the spacecraft to Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) Star 48BV rocket motor and encasing it within its fairing, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursd...
Bradford Powell, a 10-year veteran of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been appointed vice president and general manager of the command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance business at Cubic‘s (NYSE: CUB) mission solutions segment. He will lead the implementation of C2ISR programs and business growth strategy in his...
Sally Sullivan, a former CSRA executive, has joined Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) as vice president of U.S. business development. Sullivan previously served as executive VP for the homeland security group at CSRA, which is now part of General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) information technology business after the latter completed its purchase in April, Rayt...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 1, 2018 ” A Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems-built (NYSE: NOC) Cygnus spacecraft that launched in May to deliver an estimated 7,400 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station and perform secondary space missions reentered Earth’s atmosphere Monday after a 52-day stay at the space observatory, E...
