Aerojet Rocketdyne has demonstrated a second stage rocket motor in simulated environments for the U.S. Air Force’s Nuclear Weapons Center. The Large Class 92-inch-diameter solid rocket motor was tested at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Wednesday. Tyler Evans, Aerojet Rocketdyne vice president of Rocket […] More

Marillyn Hewson, president and CEO at Lockheed Martin, and Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO at General Dynamics, are some of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, according to Forbes’ first ever top 50 list. City Biz List reported Sunday that Hewson was ranked seventh on the list, Novakovic twelth and Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, CEO and President was rated […] More

A Lockheed Martin demonstration using a wideband, multi-access payload and U.S. Navy satellites worked to exhibit radio coverage through the Arctic region and show how military field personnel could carry out polar communications. Lockheed tested the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access payload’s coverage by using radios in the North Pole and sent voice and data […] More

Lou Von Thaer started a new chapter of his three-decade GovCon career in June 2013 as president of a business once part of Science Applications International Corp. that eventually became Leidos‘ national security sector. Von Thaer now leads a team of 13,000 professionals in the sector after previously leading 7,000 employees at General Dynamics Advanced […] More

Lockheed Martin and partners have activated the bus and network communications payload of a second satellite for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS system. The team worked to turn on the power of the GPS III Space Vehicle 2 on Dec. 19 at Lockheed’s Denver-based facility in order to exhibit the satellite’s mechanical integration and interfaces, Lockheed […] More

Lynne Chamberlain serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. The more than 20-year industry veteran has been at Red Hat since 2004 and has previously held leadership roles at Unisys, HP and NetApp. In her Q&A with ExecutiveBiz, Chamberlain discussed her work with systems integrators, some of the newest cloud offerings […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed assembly and integration work on a communications satellite of the U.S. Navy ahead of initial system testing. The fifth Mobile User Objective Systems satellite sits on a Lockheed-built A2100 bus and a system module developed by General Dynamics, Lockheed said Monday. “Compared to our last build, we are approximately 20 percent ahead […] More