Katie Crotty, CEO of Praescient Analytics, has been inducted into the 2014 class of The Truman National Security Project’s Truman Defense Council, a Washington-based leadership development program. The council is comprised of military veterans currently in the business community that carry out training and conferences to discuss issues such as national security and foreign relations, […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has won 12 contracts with a total combined ceiling value of more than $55 million to perform health services for the U.S. military. All contracts were won since Sept. 1 from the departments of the Navy, Air Force and Army, as well as the Defense Health Agency, Booz Allen said Thursday. Andrea […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has won a contract to provide architectural design, engineering and construction management services at military distribution centers run by the Defense Logistics Agency. Jacobs will perform work at various domestic and international DLA sites under the potential three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Jacobs said Tuesday. “We are delighted to continue our ongoing relationship with […] More

Harris Corp. has received a $21 million order from a NATO country for the delivery of Falcon multiband tactical radios. The unnamed country will use the Falcon III AN/PRC-117G manpack and AN/PRC-152A handheld radios for its Army and special forces, Harris announced Monday. “Falcon III enables high-bandwidth applications such as streaming video, simultaneous voice and data […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s Hunter unmanned aircraft system has surpassed 100,000 combat flight hours in service for the U.S. Army since the drone’s initial deployment in 1996. The Army has used the RQ-5A Hunter and the MQ-5B Hunter variant to support global contingency operations, Northrop Grumman announced Monday. MQ-5B Hunters are built with a fuel-carrying extended center […] More

David Buemi serves as vice president of federal energy solutions at Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. where he leads the firm’s marketing and government markets group. Buemi has held executive management positions over 28 years in the clean energy, information technology and consumer products industries and has worked in the photovoltaics industry since 1999. At Gehrlicher, […] More

A U.K. fighter jet equipped with metal components made with BAE Systems‘ 3D printing technology has taken its maiden flight. The Tornado aircraft flew from the UK Ministry of Defence’s airfield at Warton, Lancashire late last month, BAE announced Monday. 3D printing has the potential to yield approximately $2 million in maintenance and service savings for […] More

Rich White joined Capstone Corporation in May 2013 and serves as chief executive at the provider of information; training; and strategy, planning and operations solutions and services to the federal government. White joined Capstone from Harris Corp, where he spent more than 30 years and held executive leadership positions in areas including space, intelligence, information […] More

Kim Burke serves as the managing director of the public institutions group of Jones Lang LaSalle, where she handles privatization programs, federal financial management and federal real estate and strategic planning functions. Burke also works on initiatives related to program performance measurement, federal legislation, regulatory assistance and Office of Management and Budget scoring and accounting. A […] More

Carestream Health has been awarded a one-year, $70.2 million contract extension from the Defense Department to provide medical imaging systems for federal agency customers. Carestream will engineer radiography systems for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and other federal agency users seeking to access X-ray results, Carestream said Thursday. The company’s wireless detectors […] More

A new trend for former military personnel in the UK has seen ex-officers join the entrepreneurial ranks instead of joining the corporate ranks, FT.com reported Wednesday. Jonathan Moules writes that a new UK venture capital trust called Time: Reboot was recently launched with an intent to support ex-military entrepreneurs and their businesses. Stuart Nicol, fund […] More

  Boeing subsidiary Argon ST is working with Hilbert Technology to develop a context independent anomaly detection system for the U.S. Army. Argon has been under contract to support the Joint Unified Multi-Capable Protection System project and has worked to develop a military sensor test bed, laboratory and data center over the past seven years, Hilbert said […] More