CRGT will act as a mentor to two small businesses in the big data, cybersecurity and agile development industries – Novel Applications of Vital Information and EnProVera. CRGT will work with Novel Applications and EnProVera through the Department of Homeland Security‘s Mentor-Protege program, CRGT said Tuesday. “CRGT embraces our small business partners and considers these two firms as […] More

Inmarsat Chairman Andrew Sukawaty has announced the company’s plans to provide airlines with free satellite tracking services for commercial aircraft following the recent disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The plan is intended to be part of a future global satellite tracking system for commercial jetliners, which mainly use ground-based […] More

ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Tina Kuhn, a top cybersecurity executive with Northrop Grumman Information Systems, on Northrop’s international expansion, opportunities for transformation within the government budget environment, how to “build-in” cyber defenses, and more in the cyber space. Kuhn joined Northrop in 2012 after holding a series of GovCon leadership roles focusing on intelligence and […] More

Bill Jaffe co-founded TAPE in 2003 and serves as executive vice president and general manager at the Alexandria, Va.-based SDVOSB – Service-Disabled, Veteran–Owned and Woman-Owned Small Business. Among his many leadership responsibilities, Jaffe manages TAPE’s corporate development, M&A and IDIQ activities. TAPE specializes in systems engineering and provides technological; program and management support; and training solutions […] More

BAE Systems has launched a mobile application for Google Glass devices, smartphones and tablets that collects geospatial intelligence data and generates photo reports from the field, with potential uses for reconnaissance and disaster relief. The GXP Xplorer Snap app showcased at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s annual GEOINT Symposium leverages crowdsourcing for information gathering and sharing. “This simple, wearable technology […] More

DigitalGlobe and MDA have combined their optical and radar satellite products to offer a common ground system for the defense and intelligence community. Jeff Kerridge, DigitalGlobe’s senior vice president for international defense and intelligence programs, said Tuesday the collaboration is intended to help customers pull images from RADARSAT-2 earth observation satellite in near real time. Don […] More

IBM will provide its cloud computing and data analytics technology to help researchers in Canada build decision-support tools for managing coastlines in British Columbia. The Smart Oceans BC project seeks to develop a system for public safety agencies to predict and monitor offshore pollution, oil spills and natural disasters, IBM said Monday. IBM will work […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division has turned over the assault ship America to the U.S. Navy after the completion of sea trials in February. The commissioning crew will then begin shipboard training before the ship’s sail-away and America’s commissioning is scheduled for later this year in San Francisco, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. America is built […] More

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command recently conducted ground and air demonstrations for the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. The demonstrations were held at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. in January to show split-link capability for mission data transmission separate from the command-and-control link, Northrop said Thursday. “We’re ecstatic with Global Hawk’s ability to provide […] More

The federal space sector faces a challenge as budget trends point to other priorities and future budget increases appear limited with the current economy and the steadily declining discretionary spending, TASC senior engineer Gary Oleson writes in a March 17 op-ed for Space News. To address this challenge, Oleson writes the sector must choose to either reduce […] More

Erik Buice leads Northrop Grumman‘s health systems management unit as vice president and leads a team of more than 800 personnel who help federal health agencies manage their information technology systems. Buice’s career has included stops at firms ranging from large to small, including IT and consulting roles at companies such as CGI, Patriot Technologies, […] More

General Dynamics C4 Systems has opened an online portal for the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate to exchange data and access technology resources. The Knowledge Management System environment within the EDGE network is built for members to develop and deploy existing and new technologies to end users, General Dynamics said Thursday. Chris Marzilli, […] More