George Obertubbesing serves as vice president of business development for Harris IT Services where he focuses on Defense Department business. He most recently served as corporate director of business intelligence at TASC and has also worked in BD director roles for SRA International and CSC. Obertubbesing started his career at Harris in 1982 working on video teleconferencing […] More

Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush is confident the company’s unmanned systems offerings fulfill various requirements of its customers worldwide, Flight Global reported Friday. Bush told an earnings call Wednesday that Northrop Grumman is seeing increasing demand from U.S. allies worldwide for its X-47B unmanned carrier air system-demonstrator program, Beth Stevenson reports. He said the company […] More

Thomas Burns recently spoke about his time in the U.S. Air Force and the business skills he acquired from his previous roles before joining ENSCO as president and CEO, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Burns, founder of technology firms Object Video and SET, previously served as senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp. In […] More

Creative Computing Solutions Inc., today announced it has been awarded a contract to support the Department of Veterans Affairs through the delivery of services to various offices across the nation. This task order is just one more award that CCSi has received under the VA’s Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology (T4) contract. “Veterans living in rural […] More

Rick Dansey leads CACI International‘s healthcare, litigation and enterprise information business as an executive vice president and oversees the implementation of enterprise resource planning and business systems for clients. A certified Project Management Professional, Dansey has 25 years of experience in the field and worked at Digital Systems International Corp. before CACI acquired the company in 2001. The company says […] More

DigitalGlobe has partnered with GIS People to provide geospatial data offerings to customers in Australia. Igor Stjepanovic, GIS People’s managing director, said Tuesday the partnership is intended to help GIS’ remote sensing department to acquire data for its operations. “The capability to quickly extract information from pixel-based data is hugely useful in a number of […] More

Raytheon has demonstrated its precision-guided glide bomb during a series of flight tests for the U.S. Air Force. The Small Diameter Bomb II was made to detect, track and destroy stationary land targets using a tri-mode seeker technology, Raytheon said Thursday. “Acquiring stationary targets with the same seeker that can identify and track moving targets demonstrates […] More

(Editor’s note: this interview took place prior to ATK’s April announcement that the company would spinoff its sporting division into an independent company and merge its aerospace and defense businesses with Orbital Sciences. Click here to read GovCon Wire’s coverage of both transactions.) As senior vice president and chief information officer at ATK, Jeff Kubacki acts as the Arlington, […] More

The Canadian defense department has purchased eight Lockheed Martin-built Gyrocam sensor systems under a foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Marine Corps, planning to equip vehicles with the technology. Lockheed has received three orders from international customers for the sensors, including one to support Canadian Armed Forces route opening capability teams and another from Selex ES for […] More

Eric John, a former U.S. Senior Foreign Service officer, has joined Boeing as president of the company’s operations in Korea, one of the largest international markets for its commercial and defense business. Boeing said Tuesday that John will succeed Pat Gaines, who has served the company for 27 years and will retire in September after four years as Boeing Korea’s […] More

The U.S. military can increasingly look to the contractor workforce as a source for training and augmentation services as the Defense Department eyes control of personnel costs as a means to control the defense budget, according to retired Air Force Col. Scott Seavers. Seavers, who joined Fairfax, Va.-based Salient Federal Solutions as a vice president […] More

James Buchman, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined The SPECTRUM Group‘s Air Force team following 25 years of military service, bringing his public and private sector work experience to the company’s consulting practice. “His substantial expertise in Air Force and Foreign Military Sales programs, as well as his deep understanding of education and training concepts, […] More