Susan Atwell serves as vice president of contracts and pricing for Northrop Grumman’s information systems sector and is responsible for leadership and oversight for all contracts, pricing, export control and property management matters for the sector. Prior to this role, she served as a division director of contracts and subcontracts, where she supported several lines of business […] More

Deltek‘s Alex Rossino has outlined his analysis of the U.S. Army‘s spending on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 – Services vehicle in an effort to help vendors prepare for the upcoming ITES-3S iteration in fiscal year 2015. “ITES-3S is expected to be even more heavily utilized than its predecessor due to the Army’s desire to push more of its IT acquisition […] More

The Defense Department could issue a certification for Space Exploration Technologies to compete for military satellite launch programs by Dec. 1, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Doug Cameron writes SpaceX will get the chance to pursue work to launch satellites for DoD once the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is approved. Boeing and Lockheed Martin‘s joint […] More

United Launch Alliance will announce on Wednesday a collaboration with Blue Origin to develop and offer a rocket engine for U.S. space programs, Reuters reported Monday. Andrea Shalal writes the partnership seeks to replace Russian-made RD-180 engines that are used on ULA’s Atlas V rockets to lift off U.S. military satellites. Frank Kendall, the Defense […] More

ReportsnReports has projected the global unmanned ground vehicle market to be worth $8.26 billion by 2020, a 32.72 percent increase from the firm’s 2014 figure. The market research firm’s new report analyzes emerging trends and major countries from North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa regions, MarketsnMarkets said Thursday. ReportsnReports also examines UGV applications […] More

NASA‘s engineers have completed work on the crew module on the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, a move the agency says marks the end of work on all major components of Orion. The engineers attached the crew and service modules to the adapter and deliver the spacecraft to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for ammonia and hyper-propellant fueling in preparation […] More

Research and Markets projects the global directed-energy weapons market to achieve a 23.16 percent compound annual growth rate through 2018 as defense budgets and research and development activity increase in certain countries. The market research firm says that research-and-development work will respond to growing demand for new military weapons designed to cause minimal collateral damage. BAE Systems, Boeing, Raytheon and Textron will be […] More

A Research and Markets report says Northrop Grumman, Qinetiq and iRobot represent more than 50 percent of the global market share in unmanned ground vehicles. The worlwide UGV market has an estimated value of $1.51 billion in 2014 and is projected to reach $8.26 billion in value by 2020, the research firm said Thursday. Growth […] More

MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that projects the air traffic control equipment market to be worth approximately $5.5 billion in 2020. The report, which analyzes the market’s growth by geography and country between 2014 and 2020, indicates that the air traffic market will double in value over the next 15 years, MarketsandMarkets said Thursday. Airport construction projects […] More

Richard Hamilton, formerly practice director for sales at Infor‘s public sector, has been named business development executive at professional services firm GCR Inc. He will work at GCR office in Los Angeles and support company’s programs geared toward helping government clients to address disaster management issues through the use of technology, GCR said Monday. Hamilton […] More

Lockheed Martin has selected a subsidiary of IBC Advanced Alloys to supply beryllium-aluminum cast components for the F-35 jet’s electro-optical targeting system under a $2 million initial contract. IBC Engineered Materials will perform engineering and hard-tooling services and use the Beralcast beryllium-aluminum alloy to build an EOTS azimuth gimbal housing for the F-35, IBC said Monday. “A key attribute […] More

Research and Markets projects a 9.7 percent compound annual growth rate for the global smart grid cybersecurity market through 2018 due to what the firm sees as a growing complexity of cyber attacks on smart grid networks. “The security of the smart grid network is a major issue faced by power utilities because there is a frequent exchange of sensitive information […] More