Ashley Burke serves as senior vice president of communications at DynCorp International, where she leads the company’s external and internal communications, corporate social responsibility activities, and serves as the company’s spokesperson. Prior to DynCorp, she was executive vice president at Prism Public Affairs, where she provided strategic counsel, media relations, day-to-day client management and materials […] More

NASA has awarded a two-year contract to Hensel Phelps Construction Co., to begin construction on a new multi-story headquarters at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Fla. The $64.8 million contract will allow for demolition of the Kennedy Industrial Area, saving Kennedy an estimated $400 million in the next 40 years through a 50 percent […] More

NASA is poised to test an engine for the Space Launch System, a rocket the agency and Boeing are building to send the Orion manned spacecraft into deep space. Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi positioned the RS-25 rocket engine on a testing platform Thursday for developmental and certification flight tests, the agency […] More

Emirates Airlines announced Tuesday that it has signed a $13 billion, 12-year OnPoint solution agreement with GE for the maintenance and complete overhaul of the new line of GE9X engines powering its 150 Boeing 777X aircraft. The OnPoint solution contract is part of a larger arrangement announced at the 2013 Dubai Air Show, providing Emirates with 300 […] More

Will Grannis, chief technical officer and vice president of engineering at L-3 Communications, leads a team of scientists, engineers and solutions developers to provide customers with C4ISR, big data, cybersecurity and other technical services. He joined L-3 after its acquisition of What’s Next, where he drove big data and cybersecurity support for the intelligence community and the Energy Department […] More

An industry team led by Lockheed Martin is working to establish a link between battle management systems used by the Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Army. The Missile Defense National Team is developing the C2BMC (command, control, battle management and communications) system to unify disparate ballistic missile defense elements, Lockheed said Thursday. “Potential air and ballistic missile threats […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will start evaluating four proposed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft designs by the end of next month, IHS Janes’s 360 reported Wednesday. Gareth Jennings writes that Brian Ritter, a program manager at Boeing, told reporters Tuesday that DARPA will review VTOL X-Plane prototypes from Boeing, Aurora Flight Sciences, Karem and Sikorsky. DARPA […] More

CAE Inc. has been selected to develop operation support services for Caverton Helicopters’ training center in Africa over a six-year period. CAE will work beginning in mid 2015 to maintain and operate the training facility that is being constructed in Lagos, Nigeria, CAE said Wednesday. “We look forward to continuing to grow our relationship with […] More

Louisa Jaffe, CEO and president of Technical and Project Engineering, has been re-appointed to the advisory board of the National Contract Management Association for program year ending June 30, 2015. Jaffe has been a member of the NCMA’s board of advisors since 2008, providing guidance to national officers on contract management issues, TAPE said Monday. “With each year […] More

A team of NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers has begun integrating a thermal protection system onto the crew module of the agency’s Orion deep-space exploration vehicle. NASA plans to conduct a maiden test flight for the Orion spacecraft by Dec. 4, Lockheed said Wednesday. The test’s goal is to evaluate if the heat shield will […] More

Executives from Boeing, Intelsat and SpaceX and SSL Federal gathered Tuesday at the National Space Symposium to discuss government innovation and industry consolidation trends in light of the current fiscal environment, Defense News reported Monday. Aaron Mehta writes that Kay Sears, president of Intelsat General, told the forum audience that spending cuts have actually resulted […] More

ATK and Aerojet Rocketdyne aided in the launch of a United Launch Alliance-built rocket on Friday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. ATK technologies also helped to operate the new Boeing GPS IIF satellite, ATK said Monday. The company developed the solar arrays on the GPS IIF satellite, two Graphite Epoxy Motors, composite structures and the main engine […] More