Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $25 million prime contract from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide the Defense Logistics Agency – Energy with technical, systems engineering and management support. The company said Tuesday it will perform engineering analysis and advisory services on the Fuels Manager Defense leak detection systems of its […] More

Northrop Grumman has awarded more than $14 million in subcontracts to Australia-based companies through a global supply chain program run by the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation. To date, Northrop has collaborated with more than 15 Australian small and medium businesses to deliver cybersecurity, space research, logistics support work to government and military customers, Northrop said […] More

In a series of recent flight tests off the coast of San Diego the Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy victoriously took to the air with the unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout simultaneously with the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, what was their first time in flight. The testing took place aboard the USS Freedom Littoral […] More

Leidos will work to develop and integrate services for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic under three task orders worth nearly $54 million. Leidos will provide information assurance, training, configuration management, logistics, help desk support and Joint Concentrator Architecture site services for the SSC’s Distributed Common Ground System – Navy program, Leidos said […] More

Carl Salzano retired in the Spring of 2014 as a senior vice president for acquisition services at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he also served as co-chairman of the Veteran and Wounded Warrior Committee. The U.S. Navy veteran joined Booz Allen in 1986 after holding leadership roles at firms including Bendix Aerospace and Advanced Technology. Soon […] More

Joe Stein, the retired U.S. Air Force Major General who most recently helped lead the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense’s policy posture with NATO and Europe, has joined SkyLink Aviation as the firm’s senior executive for operational strategy. The company pointed to Stein’s leadership experience as a commander of large aviation organizations, and at […] More

L-3 Communications has reorganized the company’s business segments in a move that Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese called an effort to further the company’s technology and sales push. John McNellis has been named president of the new aerospace systems segment that combines the former platform and logistics segment and the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems […] More

Science Applications International Corp. will help the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic manage production engineering and logistics for the branch’s Distributed Common Ground System under a potential one-year, $13 million task order. Tom Watson, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s the Navy and Marine Corps customer group, said Tuesday the company will work on system […] More

Pratt & Whitney has officially opened a maintenance, repair and operations hub for PW4000 aircraft engines in Singapore as part of a $110 million capital investment. The facility is located at the Seletar industrial aerospace park which already houses Pratt & Whitney’s component solutions business and global services engineering team, the UTC Technologies Corp. subsidiary […] More

Aerospace facilities owned and operated by Eaton in Toccoa, Ga. and Jackson, Mich. were selected to receive supplier performance awards from the Defense Logistics Agency‘s land and maritime division. Both facilities received bronze awards after garnering 12-month scores of 98 and 98.9 percent, respectively, from DLA’s Automated Best Value Supplier evaluation system, Eaton announced Thursday. Eaton’s […] More

Boeing and Lockheed Martin want to grow their footprint in the U.K. defense and aerospace market as well as maintain partnerships with existing customers there, the Daily Mail reported Monday. Ben Griffiths write the two U.S.-based contractors have sought growth opportunities abroad to help weather downturn in their home country. Sir Roger Bone, president of […] More