QinetiQ North America and Milrem have introduced a modular, hybrid unmanned ground vehicle the companies designed to help soldiers perform their missions on the battlefield. Titan is built to incorporate Milrem’s Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System for military applications along with QinetiQ’s tactical robot controller and robotic applique kit, Milrem said Monday. The vehicle is built to comply […] More

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have finished a critical design review of a robotic technology the company designed to support explosive ordnance reconnaissance and threat assessment operations. The assessment determined that Northrop’s final design for a dismounted operations variant of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System is ready to enter  the program’s system fabrication, assembly, integration and testing phases, the company […] More

QinetiQ North America has been awarded a $16 million contract to provide control technology for launch and recovery platforms that General Atomics is building for integration onto a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. QNA said Tuesday it will assemble and test control software and hardware of the  Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear for the USS John F. Kennedy currently under […] More

QinetiQ North America has received a $17.5 million contract from the U.S. Army and a separate $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to refurbish and modernize the services’ TALON IV military robots. QNA will provide spare parts for the TALON systems fielded in Afghanistan and Iraq and upgrade services to help protect U.S. warfighters in operations, […] More

Velodyne Lidar plans to integrate its remote sensing technology onto a QinetiQ North America-built unmanned ground system for a demonstration at an upcoming robotics conference in Boston. The companies will showcase Velodyne’s VLP-16 LiDAR Puck sensor mounted on QinetiQ NA’s TALON robot at the RoboBusiness forum to be held at Hynes Convention Center from Oct. […] More

Jim Reagan, chief financial officer at Vencore, brings nearly two decades of financial leadership to his role at the technology services contractor and oversees the company’s fiscal support functions. Vencore, formerly known as The SI Organization, closed its potential $165 million purchase of QinetiQ’s U.S. services and solutions group in May and announced the new name of “Vencore” […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s joint venture has recently marked the anniversary of its aviation support to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of National Guard, which began with the delivery and integration of 12 MD530F rotary-wing aircraft in May 2013. “This is a significant milestone for our partnership and we look forward to continued program excellence,” Bob Coffey, general manager of the joint […] More

QinetiQ North America has been awarded a five-year, $16 million contract to provide engineering, program management and technical support services to a U.S. Navy battlefield science and technology organization. QNA will lead a team of eight contractors to support work in the Office of Naval Research’s expeditionary maneuver warfare and combating terrorism department, QNA said Tuesday. The […] More

Saudi Arabia’s national guard ministry plans to award a contract in September 2014 for maintenance work on 60 helicopters stationed in the country’s capital of Riyadh. QinetiQ North America said Thursday it is a member of a Northrop Grumman-led team competing for that contract and additional members include the PAE-owned subsidiary DS2, AAR and Vinnell Arabia. […] More

QinetiQ North America has been awarded two task orders worth $15 million combined from the General Services Administration for information technology and software development services. The agency’s Public Buildings Service issued the orders through GSA’s Information Technology and Development Services blanket purchase agreement, QNA said Tuesday. For the Enterprise Data Repository Management task order, the […] More

QinetiQ North America has won a $12 million contract to develop mapping and prediction models for the Naval Research Laboratory‘s oceanography programs. QNA will build ocean modeling, remote sensing and physical oceanography systems under the three-year contract, QNA said Wednesday. “We have over 25 years of expertise in ocean modeling and related support, and we appreciate […] More

Suzan Zimmerman, president and CEO of Strategic Capture Group, has been appointed to the advisory board of cybersecurity company Sepio Systems, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Her 29-year industry career includes senior vice president roles at CACI International, Science Applications International Corp. and QinetiQ North America.

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