Outgoing BAE Systems Inc. President and CEO Linda Hudson spoke to technology leaders Thursday about the changes she believes would address concerns on how to develop U.S. student and professional talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, FedScoop reported Thursday. Dan Verton writes Hudson appeared at an Northern Virginia Technology Council event to discuss U.S. […] More

Harris Corp. has started to deliver hardware and software systems for installation in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite network after the equipment passed a pre-shipment review. Those systems will be used to build the ground segment for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series program, Harris said Thursday. “We have worked closely with NOAA […] More

Lockheed Martin and the Tennessee Valley Authority will be working together to encourage industrial and commercial entities across the southeastern U.S. to invest in clean energy. Lockheed’s energy solutions business will offer smart energy management, systems engineering and operations support services to TVA and utilities through the program, Lockheed said Wednesday. “We will manage incentive […] More

Viscount Systems will deploy its access control technology and certification software to certain U.S. federal government facilities based in Maryland and Virginia. The undisclosed agency will use the company’s Freedom access control software and the VeriCert certification software at the sites, Viscount announced Thursday. As the U.S. government continues to move towards increased security requirements […] More

The Washington region has become an alternative business hub for technology companies seeking to move from Silicon Valley, Calif., the Washington Post reported Monday. Marjorie Censer and Jim Tankersley write Savi Technology was one company that decided to relocate its California headquarters to Virginia, making the move in 2011. William Clark, Savi CEO, told the Post […] More

Market research firm Deltek has issued a new study which shows that D.C. area federal spending reached a total of $101.1 billion in fiscal year 2012, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Jennifer Sakole, principal research analyst at Deltek, writes federal spending in the District, Maryland and Virginia represented one-fifth of federal contract obligations and the […] More

The U.S. Air Force has accepted operational responsibility for a satellite Ball Aerospace & Technologies built to support space-based technology demonstrations by the Defense Department. Space Test Program Satellite-3 was sent into orbit along with 28 CubeSats aboard a single Minotaur I rocket Nov. 19 at the Wallops Flight Center in Virginia, Ball Aerospace said […] More

Capstone Turbine has received four orders from the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions for microturbines designed for oil and gas operations. Capstone’s oil and gas distributor E-Finity Distributed Generation obtained orders from two new and two existing clients amounting to 6.4 megawatts of power, Capstone said Thursday. Darren Jamison, president and CEO of Capstone, said […] More

An Orbital Sciences cargo spacecraft launched from NASA‘s Wallop’s Flight Facility in Virginia Thursday to carry supplies to the International Space Station. An Antares rocket lifted off from Wallops and will transport 2,780 pounds of load including science experiments, crew supplies and spare parts to the ISS, NASA said Thursday. The mission is Orbital’s first contracted cargo delivery […] More

The new website developed by the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Consumer Electronics Association and Monster Worldwide to help veterans find work in the information technology sector is now live. USTechVets.org is designed with a skills translator to help users match their backgrounds with available jobs and built to contain a database of more than 800,000 […] More

Orbital Sciences Corp. is set to launch a cargo spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space Station on Wednesday. Orbital’s Antares rocket will lift off the Cygnus cargo spacecraft from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia into orbit for post-launch activation and testing before the spacecraft reaches the ISS on Jan. 12, Orbital Sciences said […] More

Rich White joined Capstone Corporation in May 2013 and serves as chief executive at the provider of information; training; and strategy, planning and operations solutions and services to the federal government. White joined Capstone from Harris Corp, where he spent more than 30 years and held executive leadership positions in areas including space, intelligence, information […] More