TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 19, 2021 — Jacobs will provide the Department of Defense with manned, optionally manned and unmanned systems and related support services following the company’s receipt of seven awards on the General Services Administration’s 10-year ASTRO acquisition vehicle, GovCon Wire reported Sept. 29. Bruce Crawford, senior vice president of strategic development at […] More

Raytheon Technologies has selected Curtiss-Wright to supply a modular open-systems approach processor and networking modules for what would be the central processing component of a special operations aircraft. Curtiss-Wright said Monday its MOSA technology will support the Next Generation Special Mission Processor for the U.S. Air Force’s AC/MC-130J platforms. NextGen SMP builds on an open-computing […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has started the construction of the U.S. Navy’s fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier that the service branch plans to use for global sea lane protection and national security strategy implementation initiatives. The future aircraft carrier Doris Miller (CVN 81) is part of a contract for ship design […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $94.8 million delivery order to the Newport News Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries for ship support work as part of the planned incremental availability of USS Gerald R. Ford, dubbed as CVN-78. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee and firm-fixed-price delivery order is under the Naval Sea Systems Command’s contract awarded […] More

General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business maintains on-schedule delivery of electromagnetic aircraft launch systems and advanced arresting gear for the U.S. Navy’s Gerald R. Ford-class carriers. The company said Monday its recently delivered EMALS and AAG units will be installed on the future USS John F. Kennedy and USS Enterprise, also known as CVN 79 and […] More

Curtiss-Wright will take part in a multidisciplinary team working on the Secure Automation for Advanced Reactor Innovation initiative aimed at developing digital twin technologies to be installed in nuclear power plants. The University of Michigan-led Project SAFARI is one of the nine programs under the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s Generating Electricity Managed by Intelligent Nuclear […] More

Liberty Hall Capital Partners has appointed Kevin Vicha, an experienced aerospace and power generation industry executive, as chief executive of its portfolio company Bromford Industries. Vicha, former chief operating officer at GKN Aerospace Engine Systems, will succeed CEO Gary Lowe, who is set to retire after more than a decade of service with Bromford and to […] More

Lockheed Martin has selected Curtiss-Wright to provide computers and video processing modules that will be used to modernize the mission and flight management systems on the Sikorsky MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopter fleet of the U.S. Navy. Curtiss-Wright said Monday it will deliver its modules and rugged single board modular open system approach computers to Lockheed under a […] More

Curtiss-Wright has delivered the first set of its electromechanical actuators from its manufacturing facility in Shelby, North Carolina, to Eviation Aircraft for use on the latter’s Alice all-electric plane. The flight control actuation hardware is meant to enable a flexible control architecture for various aviation applications such as flight systems, landing gear and utility activation, […] More

Curtiss-Wright has booked $130 million in subcontracts to supply various components and systems for the U.S. Navy’s Virginia- and Columbia-class submarines and Ford-class aircraft carriers. Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. and General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary awarded the contracts that cover delivery of pumps, advanced instrumentation, control systems and propulsion valves, Curtiss-Wright said Tuesday. The two […] More

Westat and Stanford University School of Medicine have released data from the Coronavirus Attitudes and Behaviors Survey on the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on Americans. The dataset is now available through a Westat partnership with Metadata Technology North America. Lawmakers, researchers and the general public can use it to help the U.S. recover from the pandemic. The survey was performed in May of 2020.

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Executive Mosaic is happy to announce that Lynn Bamford, president and CEO of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, has received a 2021 Wash100 Award. She has secured a Wash100 Award for her leadership and strategic vision to drive growth for the company heading into 2021. This marks the first Wash100 Award for Bamford. 

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