Karl Williams serves as chief operating officer for PAE, where he is responsible for the company’s three business units. Williams served as vice president and general manager of Engility’s government services business before he joined PAE in April. He has also served as Engility’s business controller with responsibility in financial management of the company’s global operational assets. Williams’ career includes time […] More

Research and Markets has unveiled a new report on environmental sensors that details trends and factors the firm believes could affect market development in the next several years. The firm forecasts a 5.4 percent compound annual growth rate from 2013 to 2018 for the industry in devices used to sense, monitor, detect or identify air, soil and water quality, conditions […] More

A new market analysis report from Visiongain says the air traffic control equipment is set for record growth in the next 10 years due to increased demand for air travel and an ever-crowded airspace. The “Air Traffic Control Equipment Market Forecast 2014-2024: Prospects for Next-Generation Air Traffic Control Systems, ADS-B, PBN and GNSS” report looked at several indicators and […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the cybersecurity market for U.S. federal agencies to grow 7.41 percent in value by 2018. The report covers the period of 2014 through 2018 and consideres the revenue from the sales of cybersecurity services to the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department and the U.S. intelligence community, Research and Markets said Thursday. […] More

Steve Lubniewski serves as vice president and industry leader for the defense and intelligence business unit within the public sector organization at IBM‘s global services segment. He leads a team that works with defense and intelligence agencies on projects related to enterprise resource planning, cloud computing, business analytics, consulting and new technologies along with IT infrastructure operations […] More

Business information provider Visiongain has unveiled its list of top 20 unmanned aerial vehicles and systems manufacturers in the world. The report predicts the specialties companies will choose in the field and how new players will try to stake a claim on a market that could undergo key structural changes amid an emergent commercial UAVs segment, Visiongain said Monday. “Although increasingly competitive, the […] More

Lockheed Martin has tasked Northrop Grumman to provide sensor payloads for the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites in the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Based Infrared System under a $422 million subcontract. “Northrop Grumman looks forward to joining our partner and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, to produce the GEO-5/6 IR payloads,” Anne Ostroff, vice president of Northrop’s military and civil […] More

Strategic Defence Intelligence expects the growing demand for ISR systems and military technology advancements to fuel growth of the electronic warfare technology market over the next 10 years. The global EW systems market is forecast to achieve a 2.68 percent compound annual growth rate to be $13.2 billion in value by 2024, Strategic Defense Intelligence […] More

Research and Markets forecasts that the military laser systems market for the aerospace, defense and homeland security industries will reach a market value of $2.73 billion within the next six years. This 4.23 percent compound annual growth rate is due to increased research and development activity and a move toward self-sufficiency of some Asia-Pacific and European countries, the firm […] More

Northrop Grumman will introduce new protected terminals for satellite communications that the company built to help the U.S. military protect warfighters. The company will unveil three variants of the terminals at the MILCOM 2014 conference between Oct. 6 and 8 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Northrop Grumman said Monday. Northrop is scheduled to demonstrate the terminals in 2015 and the systems are intended to go […] More

NASA has collected evidence that the topography of the Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon believed to be the result of an asteroid impact may have been caused instead by the formation of rift valleys. The agency said Wednesday it used the Lockheed Martin-built Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to observe the gravity gradients of the moon’s surface and found gravitational anomalies. The GRAIL gravity […] More

The Air Force could unveil the winner of a contract to build the branch’s long-range radar system as soon as next week, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall has approved the service’s Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar procurement plan. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are all vying for the contract. The […] More