An estimated 150 small and medium-size Australian enterprises will offer their products and services in a meeting with BAE Systems and 20 of its suppliers as the SMEs seek to participate in the Australian navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship maritime defense project. BAE said Monday it currently works to mature the design for the ships under the Type 26 program and […] More

A joint bid by BAE Systems and its partner Patria has been selected as one of the two offers to participate in a one-year risk mitigation effort as part of the second phase of the Australian army’s combat reconnaissance vehicle program. BAE’s Australian arm and Patria proposed the AMV35 vehicle for the Land 400 Phase 2 program, BAE said […] More

Samsung Electronics America and Booz Allen Hamilton have jointly developed a new security assessment offering that works to identify the risks, threats and vulnerabilities of an enterprise’s mobile infrastructure. Booz Allen said Monday the partnership aims to help clients in sectors such as finance, healthcare and retail to address cybersecurity issues and adopt what the firm refers to as a “mobile first” […] More

Textron‘s unmanned systems subsidiary has delivered equipment and personnel to the U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department to support wildfire response operations in Idaho. The company said Thursday it deployed its Aerosonde drone, iCommand tool and Remote Video Terminal products to provide imagery and coordinate responders during the wildfire. “Unmanned systems can operate where it may be unsafe or impractical […] More

The General Services Administration has added a new special item number for three-dimensional printers and services to the Multiple Award Schedule 36 acquisition vehicle for office equipment and supplies, Federal Times reported Friday. Aaron Boyd writes SIN 51-400 is designed to serve as a central facility for vendors and federal agencies that plan to buy 3-D […] More

Prime contractor BAE Systems and its partner Patria have offered the AMV35 Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle as part of their bid on phase 2 of the Australian army’s Land 400 Program. BAE said the vehicle integrates BAE Systems Hagglunds‘ E35 manned turret system and Patria’s Armored Modular Vehicle, which both support NATO missions. Glynn Phillips, CEO of BAE’s Australian arm, noted that AMV35 works […] More

Mountain Secure Systems has received a two-year contract to develop and produce video management units for DRS Technologies’ updated version of the Surveillance and Battlefield Reconnaissance Equipment system. MSS said Wednesday its ruggedized 3U VPX platform has frame grabber cards, I/O modules, graphical processor units and single-board computers and is designed to support the operator’s control station unit […] More

Five high school seniors from Arlington, Texas, have become the first batch to complete their engineering internship in aeronautics at Lockheed Martin after seven months of exposure to laboratory and flight operations work. The five students – Austin Smith (Martin High School), Abdallah Shishani (Juan Seguin High School), Benson Phillips and Amy Hughes (Arlington High School), […] More

Donna Gregg, former mission area executive for cyber operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has moved into a new role as head of the lab’s asymmetric operations sector. Gregg will be responsible for overseeing APL’s work in cyber operations, homeland protection and special operations, the lab said Friday. She assumes the role previously held by 40-year […] More

Royal Philips plans to establish an innovation center in Nairobi, Kenya to develop lighting, healthcare and lifestyle products for consumers across Africa. The company aims to bring together international researchers to pursue open-innovation programs and conduct applications-based scientific and user studies at the hub, Philips said Thursday. Dr. Maarten van Herpen will lead the technology […] More

Orit Gadiesh, Bain & Company chairman, has been nominated to the serve on the supervisory board of Royal Philips. She will become the ninth member of the board if approved by shareholders on May 1, Philips announced Monday. “Her expertise will be invaluable, particularly as Philips transitions towards a technological company focused on integrating big […] More

Brent Shafer has been tapped to serve as the next chief executive officer of Philips North America where he will be responsible for the company’s operations in the healthcare, consumer lifestyle and lighting markets. Shafer succeeds Greg Sebasky who retired Feb. 3 and will report directly to Frans van Houten, Royal Philips CEO, the company […] More