The International Space Station captured an Orbital ATK-built spacecraft at 6:19 a.m. Eastern time to start a 50-day berthing period for astronauts on the ISS to carry out scientific studies with cargo and other research supplies delivered by the company’s Cyngus ship. NASA said Wednesday astronaut Kjell Lindgren used the space station’s robotic arm to take in Cyngus and the spacecraft […] More

Boeing and the U.S. Navy have integrated new data-sharing and target detection systems into a company-built electronic attack aircraft during the military branch’s recent fleet experimentation activity. The EA-18G Growler used in the demonstration employs an open architecture, a targeting processor, high-bandwidth data link and a Windows tablet for aircrew, Boeing said Tuesday. The updated platform will work to help military users detect […] More

The Defense Department’s best practices document on cloud adoption does not mention ways on how agencies can choose and compete contracts among accredited cloud service providers, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, highlighted areas he believes the Best Practices Guide for Department of Defense Cloud Mission Owners does […] More

Cubic has updated the company’s combat training system with new features the company designed to help locate the system’s position. The Earth Center Earth Fixed coordinates have been added to the P5CTS system in order to expand training area coverage, move across several exercise regions and enhance weapon simulations and data capture, Cubic said Monday. […] More

Netherlands-based digital security firm Gemalto closed its $890 million purchase of SafeNet in January of this year and shortly afterward officially launched a new subsidiary focused on the U.S. federal market — SafeNet Assured Technologies. Tom Callahan, vice president of sales at SafeNet AT, led SafeNet’s federal sales team as its VP prior to the transaction and is […] More

Michael Shrader leads the intelligence and innovative solutions business unit at Carahsoft as a vice president for the Reston, Va.-based technology product reseller. He previously spoke to ExecutiveBiz in February 2013 for a wide-ranging discussion on his company’s partnership with Splunk to offer data analytics software in the public sector and Carahsoft’s work to help its partners market […] More

Cal Shintani leads capture strategy, corporate strategy and proposal development functions for Oceus Networks as senior vice president and chief growth officer at the Reston, Va.-based mobile services contractor. Shintani last spoke to ExecutiveBiz for a Q&A conversation on his role at Oceus and GovCon market trends in June 2012, nearly five months after he joined […] More

A Northrop Grumman business unit has received a Commissioner’s Business Recognition Award from the Orange County School District, Florida Education Foundation and Florida Department of Education for the company’s partnerships with local schools. Northrop said Wednesday its laser systems business has worked on programs such as the Wekiva High School Laser Photonics Career Academy and the High School Involvement […] More

ICF International will continue to provide technical support services for the U.S. Army’s Product Manager Force Sustainment Systems unit under a five-year, $35 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The single-award contract calls for ICF to help PMFSS technical teams and its Massachusetts-based integration laboratory to build new base camps and evaluate and maintain new equipment for such camps, the company said […] More

Erin Hawley serves as director of national security programs at Cloudera, an integrator of open source technologies such as Hadoop for federal agencies and commercial businesses. Hawley joined Cloudera in December 2011 after five years at Composite Software and is also a veteran of firms such as Blackboard and Sun Microsystems. In this conversation with […] More

Steve Risseeuw heads SAP‘s work with the Defense Department and its component agencies as a vice president at the technology services contractor. The 15-year information technology industry veteran started his current VP role in 2013 after three years of leadership over the company’s Army account and is also an eight-year veteran of Oracle, where he […] More

Airbus Defence and Space has secured a three-year contract with Beijing Just Top Network Communications Co. Ltd to provide maintenance services for the Beijing government’s digital trunked system. Under the deal, Airbus will perform software and hardware maintenance, help desk and emergency support services for the Beijing Government Shared Tetra Network, which offers communication services for […] More