Boeing Chief Operating Officer Dennis Muilenburg outlined the company’s approach to production of commercial airplanes in response to global market competition before Senate lawmakers on Thursday, Herald Net reported Sunday. Dan Catchpole writes that Muilenburg also detailed Boeing’s plan to increase production rates for the 737 and 787 aircraft lines and to introduce the fresh 787-9 and -10, […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Integrated Systems division will continue providing analytical, physical and equipment processing services to support International Space Station activities at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as part of a $22 million, one-year contract option with NASA. Lockheed will extend its cargo mission planning, coordination and processing, and other services for pressurized and unpressurized cargo transportation of vehicle flights visiting ISS, NASA said […] More

A cross domain security product developed by Raytheon was selected as gold winner in the security products and solutions for government category at the 2014 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards. Raytheon was presented the award for its Trusted Thin Client product at the 10th annual RSA Conference USA 2014 awards in San Francisco, the […] More

A paper by FireEye‘s senior global threat analyst has been published by NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence as the first volume of “The Tallinn Papers,” a cybersecurity research series. Kenneth Geers sought to highlight how international cyber attacks within a geopolitical context shows the relation between network and national security in his paper entitled “Pandemonium: Nation States, National Security, and […] More

Harris CapRock Communications launched a very small aperture terminal product that is built to adjust satellite bandwidths for offshore and deepwater communications at this week’s SATELLITE 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. The Harris subsidiary said Tuesday that the Pulse Advanced VSAT tool uses modem technology and Comtech EF Data‘s Vipersat Management System to reassign or extend satellite bandwidth in real time. […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton Executive Vice President Angela “Angie” Messer leads the firm’s initiatives in emerging technologies and mission solutions within its Strategic Innovation Group. In that role, the former U.S. Army officer and former leader of Booz Allen’s Army business focuses on mission areas including C2ISR, cloud computing, social media, data science, enterprise technology, and […] More

Sarah Allen serves as Leidos‘ chief human resources officer and is an executive vice president at the GovCon firm, where she works to use recruitment and retention efforts to generate competitive advantage and help the firm grow. Allen had been with SAIC for around four years when it separated into national security, engineering and healthcare technology […] More

BAE Systems has published a threat analysis report that describes how the cyber espionage malware known as Snake attacks computer systems and how the virus works to avoid conventional security tools. The company’s applied intelligence division also created a list of technical indicators to help enterprises bolster threat detection and mitigation techniques, BAE said Friday. […] More

MITRE Corp. and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation have launched a training program for air navigation service providers, civil aviation authorities and industry partners on the implementation of the Aviation System Block Upgrades framework, both organizations said Monday. Jeff Poole, CANSO director general, said training on the International Civil Aviation Organization’s ASBU methodology is expected to guide the planning and […] More

Serco Inc. will help the U.S. Marine Corps hold warfighting seminars, combat rehearsals and simulations under a potential $18 million training systems support contract. The company will deliver support for the Combat Instructor School, collaborative tools, web development, command-and-control systems and training, Serco said Friday. “The Marines mission is critical to our national security and we are proud to support them […] More

Parsons‘ joint venture with engineering and consulting group Systra has won a design consultancy services contract for the Qatar Long Distance Railway Network, which will carry cargo and passengers within Qatar and to adjacent countries. The 248.5-mile railway will connect Qatar to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain as part of the Gulf Cooperation Council rail network and the under-construction Doha Metro, Parsons said […] More

ViON has a Hadoop-based cyber tool for information technology systems management that Rodney Hite, product manager for big data solutions, said is built to address threats to the big data architecture landscape. The company’s Big Cyber Security platform combines big data technology with traditional methods used to protect information assets and is intended to mitigate […] More