Comark has been selected by Lockheed Martin to supply human machine interface equipment for installation on the U.S. Navy‘s DDG 51-class guided missile destroyers. The Comark HMI platform is designed with Intel‘s Core i5 processor and a touchscreen engine control system, Comark said Tuesday. Comark will also provide LED-LCD displays that are built to comply […] More

Chris Kubasik, former president and chief operating officer at Lockheed Martin, has joined New York City-based investment banking firm Seabury Group to serve in the same roles. John Luth, Seabury chairman and CEO, said Monday that the firm appointed Kubasik for his experience in the international and professional services markets, as well as his background in […] More

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will produce the network communications element for the Air Force‘s GPS III satellites under a $26 million subcontract with Lockheed Martin. The contract is a follow-on to previous deals with Lockheed that cover delivery of NCE components and procurement of parts for eight GPS III space vehicles, General Dynamics said Friday. Funding for NCEs […] More

Christopher Kubasik, formerly president and chief operating officer Lockheed Martin until 2012, has been appointed to the board of advisers at Seabury Group, an advisory and investment banking company. “In joining Seabury’s board of advisors, Chris joins a distinguished group that includes Douglas Steenland, formerly CEO of Northwest Airlines and David Turnbull, former CEO of the Swire Group and […] More

FireMon showcased its continuous monitoring platform offering at a defense and technology exposition in San Diego on Feb. 11 to 13. The company has also appointed Kelly Jones and Andrew Stephens to its federal services team and named Albert Nieves vice president of federal sales, the company said Feb. 11. The security intelligence provider attributed its […] More

Harry Lackey III will serve as a business development director at Catapult Technology and will help the company pursue defense, civilian and commercial contracts. The 10-year sales and business development executive veteran will handle the company’s future and current contracts, Catapult announced Wednesday. Lackey was most recently the director of GWAC and IDIQ contracts at Access Systems. He […] More

Marillyn Hewson, president and CEO at Lockheed Martin, and Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO at General Dynamics, are some of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, according to Forbes’ first ever top 50 list. City Biz List reported Sunday that Hewson was ranked seventh on the list, Novakovic twelth and Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, CEO and President was rated […] More

Lynne Chamberlain serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. The more than 20-year industry veteran has been at Red Hat since 2004 and has previously held leadership roles at Unisys, HP and NetApp. In her Q&A with ExecutiveBiz, Chamberlain discussed her work with systems integrators, some of the newest cloud offerings […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. wants to procure a United Launch Alliance-built rocket as the company prepares for an orbital flight in November 2016. Sierra Nevada will also establish an operation site at NASA Kennedy Space Center where its Dream Chaser spacecraft will be launched into space aboard an Atlas V rocket, NASA said Thursday. “SNC is […] More

The U.S. Navy is set to take over operations of three satellite ground stations developed by General Dynamics for the Mobile User Objective System program. The ground control systems relay radio calls from service personnel to Defense Department communication networks in any location using the MUOS satellite array, the company said Thursday. “All they will need […] More

Dr. Melvin Greer serves as senior fellow and chief strategist for service-oriented architecture and cloud computing at Lockheed Martin, where he brings more than 25 years of experience leading systems and software engineering efforts to the contractor’s advanced technology office. Greer is a principal investigator in advanced research studies, and has dedicated his efforts towards […] More

An industry team led by BAE Systems has won a $79 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency design technology for converting large volumes of sensor data into threat intelligence. DARPA seeks to build a device that can help defense organizations process information from multiple sensors and predict threat behaviors by using […] More