General Electric’s intelligent platforms business has obtained license to use Northrop Grumman’s air-flow-through cooling technology for military electronic module application. The air-flow-through cooling system incorporates a novel heat exchanger to protect electronic modules and isolates electronic parts from the cooling air using a central channel with heat fins, Northrop said Thursday. Tom Jones, vice president […] More

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

Raytheon and Weather Decision Technologies will collaborate to develop customized applications intended to help users analyze climate information and predict weather. The partnership’s goal is to use a Raytheon-made environmental data analysis technology as the backend for WDT’s predictive weather decision support products, WDT said Nov. 20. Raytheon updated the software for U.S. government customers […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with BGN Technologies, EMC and Jerusalem Venture Partners under Israel’s CyberSpark Industry Initiative, which aims to bolster public-private partnerships in the country as well as international industry collaboration. Lockheed said Monday the nonprofit initiative works to coordinate defense forces, government agencies and academia in Israel for joint cyber industry activities through its cyber center at the Advanced Technologies Park in Beer-Sheva. […] More

Mike Alber serves as chief financial officer at Chantilly, Va.-based services provider Engility Corp., which he joined in June 2012 prior to that company’s spinoff from L-3 Communications. Before joining Engility, he served as CFO at Alion Science and Technology, a company he joined in 2007 as senior vice president and executive director of financial […] More

Scott Goldstein has served as chief technologist and head of the advanced missions solutions group at Dynetics since late 2012. He is a 30-year veteran of areas such as SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT, C4ISR cyber, radar, sonar, imaging, communications and navigation. Goldstein has previously held executive leadership roles at QinetiQ‘s North American business, ManTech International and SAIC. His background also includes work on research and development, […] More

The U.S. Defense Department has approved Exelis-made electronic warfare pods for installation aboard Block 15 F-16A/B fighters operated by foreign military sale customers. Exelis said Thursday its Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System has been validated through the SEEK EAGLE aircraft-stores certification program. The AIDEWS approval could be immediately extended to domestic and international F-16 […] More

Cameron Sedgwick serves as vice president for the North America public sector and Canada at CA Technologies. He has over 20 years of information technology experience, developing technology solutions that help enable organizations to leverage technology to improve the performance and efficiency of business operations. Sedgwick’s past positions at CA Technologies include senior practice director […] More

MEADS International has demonstrated its multifunction fire control radar at Pratica di Mare Air Base near Rome and at the Freinhause, Germany-based MBDA air defense center. The Medium Extended Air Defense System program completed the performance test for the radar system’s functions to track and jam signals, search in ground clutter and identifying target using kinematic data, Lockheed Martin said […] More

Bradley Feldmann elevated to the chief executive post at San Diego-based defense and transportation contractor at Cubic Corp. during the summer after a two-month transition period that saw him succeed William “Bill” Boyle. Feldmann first worked at the company between 1989 and 1999, then returned to Cubic in 2008 and has since led the defense systems segment and […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has introduced a new cybersecurity offering with the goal of helping clients secure enterprise data and reduce network vulnerabilities. The CyberSecurity Edge suite works to minimize disruption to operations, prevent intellectual property loss and counter cyber attacks, SAIC said Tuesday. “This solution provides maximum data security readiness and responds to advanced persistent […] More

Commercial and government efforts are underway to build unmanned and autonomous underwater vehicles that can be used for naval warfare, environmental research and recovery mission, National Defense Magazine reports. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, believes that UUV technology has limitless applications and will […] More