Northrop Grumman has awarded a $70,000 research grant to the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs to study and develop cybersecurity and resiliency technologies for Defense Department systems. The company said Thursday UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Sciences will perform research over a nine-month period as part of the university’s partnership with Northrop on research and development in the fields […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies and NASA will fly a set of experimental Defense Department scientific payloads on the planned Green Propellant Infusion Mission for 2016 under a $3.4 million payload integration contract. The company said Wednesday the DoD Space Experiments Review Board selected the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight, Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer and Space Object Self-tracker payloads to be part of the GPIM […] More

The U.S. Defense Department has approved Exelis-made electronic warfare pods for installation aboard Block 15 F-16A/B fighters operated by foreign military sale customers. Exelis said Thursday its Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System has been validated through the SEEK EAGLE aircraft-stores certification program. The AIDEWS approval could be immediately extended to domestic and international F-16 […] More

John Roberti serves as vice president of government relations and strategy at Cubic Corp., a role he moved into after service as vice president of Washington operations for the company’s defense systems segment. Roberti, a retired Navy rear admiral, holds more than 30 years of experience in the defense sector and concluded his military career […] More

The Defense Department could issue a certification for Space Exploration Technologies to compete for military satellite launch programs by Dec. 1, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Doug Cameron writes SpaceX will get the chance to pursue work to launch satellites for DoD once the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is approved. Boeing and Lockheed Martin‘s joint […] More

Battelle‘s Matthew Shaw has outlined what he says is a growing focus of U.S. and international government, intelligence and law enforcement organizations on technologies to detect and classify biological threats that are both natural man-made. Shaw, head of the CBRNE defense business within Battelle’s national security segment, writes in a piece published Monday on Homeland Security Today that the […] More

Mark Janczewski, co-chair of Health Level Seven International’s electronic health record working group and formerly a travel physician for Defense Department officials, has been named senior clinical informaticist of Systems Made Simple. The company said Monday Janczewski will guide its clinical informatics teams to establish a healthcare IT strategy centered on interoperability and data management. “Due to Dr. […] More

Deltek expects three federal agencies to launch solicitations for recompete contracts worth almost $30 billion combined in the next three months, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Ashley Bergander, research manager at Deltek, writes the contract vehicles from the Air Force as well as the departments of Energy and Veterans Affairs will be open to both […] More

SRA International and Supply Chain Visions have won a contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to assist in the technical training of its logistical workforce in supply chain management. Supply Chain Visions said Tuesday that it will contribute the knowledgebase on the subject matter while SRA will lend support in the areas of program […] More

Eric Eifert serves as senior vice president of the cybersecurity solutions division within ManTech International’s mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group. In this role, he leads a highly technical team of more than 250 cybersecurity experts committed to defending our nation’s critical information systems. (Click Here, to read the executive spotlight he conducted with ExecutiveBiz in 2012.) He leads a […] More

Commercial and government efforts are underway to build unmanned and autonomous underwater vehicles that can be used for naval warfare, environmental research and recovery mission, National Defense Magazine reports. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, believes that UUV technology has limitless applications and will […] More

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $151 million contract to help London’s Metropolitan Police Service update a system for managing emergency and non-emergency calls, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Robert Wall writes that Lockheed will help the Met Police build a new command and control system designed to support law enforcement personnel’s communication and […] More