Dr. Ray O. Johnson, a senior vice president and chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, will give a speech to graduating computer, mathematics and natural science students at the University of Maryland. He is slated to deliver the commencement address Sunday at 6 p.m. in the Cole Student Activities Building, the university said Monday. Dr. […] More

Lockheed Martin and the University of Alabama have partnered to establish a data science center that will offer analytics research services to other organizations. The lab will be built to provide a collaborative data analytics environment for government, commercial and academic organizations and work to help them solve complex operational issues, UA said Monday. Dr. Ray […] More

Lockheed Martin will establish an investment fund in Korea to help local universities research and develop aviation and spaceflight technologies, Korea Times reported Thursday. Park Ji-won writes that Lockheed has launched an open science and technology competition and is accepting R&D proposals in nanotechnology and renewable energy generation for aerospace applications. “Through direct investment and […] More

Lockheed Martin is observing National Engineers Week by hosting programs to promote education and careers in the science, technology, engineering and math fields to students in the country. The company has signed a $6 million agreement with Project Lead the Way to expand STEM in various urban school districts, Lockheed announced Tuesday. “With an employee […] More

Maxar Technologies has rebranded its portfolio of spacecraft platforms to better represent the company’s variety of manufacturing capabilities and commitment to serving public and private sector space missions. Comprising the Maxar 300, Maxar 500 and Maxar 1300 series buses, the organization’s lineup offers flexibility across an array of missions, from proliferated low Earth orbit constellations to […] More

Two geostationary satellites that Maxar Technologies built for Intelsat unfolded their solar arrays and started transmitting signals and commissioning activities on orbit following their launch Tuesday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Arianespace’s launch site in French Guiana. The Galaxy 35 and Galaxy 36 satellites will enable Intelsat to transfer its services as the Federal […] More

NASA’s recently launched James Webb Space Telescope leverages ground control and flight operation systems built by Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business unit to perform its solar system exploration and observation mission. Raytheon Intelligence & Space said Tuesday its ground control software works to monitor the condition and performance of the Hubble telescope’s successor and […] More

James Ray, formerly the president of Stanley Black and Decker‘s global engineered fastening business, has been named to Spirit AeroSystems Holdings‘ board of directors. Ray brings 25 years of executive experience to the board, where he will serve on committees focused on risk and compensation, Spirit AeroSystems said Monday. He retired from Stanley Black and […] More

Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have delivered the 4,000th unit of the company’s cruise missile platform, built to perform precision strike missions, to the naval fleet. The company said Tuesday that the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles have a capacity to circle around a target for hours, shift course while in flight as well as engage […] More

Bill Turk, former vice president and general counsel of Omniplex World Services, and Taylor Johnson, former deputy general counsel at Raytheon’s Blackbird Technologies subsidiary, have joined the in-house legal team of Virginia-based operations support provider SOS International. Turk was most recently responsible for Omniplex’s merger and acquisition, contract negotiation, intellectual property and corporate governance functions, SOSi said […] More

SolarWorld has produced solar panels for installation in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ 2.6-megawatt solar facilities. Efficient Energy of Tennessee performed engineering and construction tasks for the solar systems at the Wichita, Kansas-based Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center and the Big Spring, Texas-based West Texas VA Health Center, SolarWorld said Wednesday. CivicSolar also serves […] More

Ed Swallow, a 12-year Northrop Grumman veteran, will join The Aerospace Corp. on April 4 as vice president of the nonprofit organization’s civil and commercial group. The nonprofit organization said Thursday it also appointed Randy Kendall, vice president of civil and commercial operations, to succeed the retiring Ray Johnson as VP of the space launch business area on July 1. […] More