CAE has won a contract of an undisclosed amount to supply a simulation system to Sweden’s navy in order to help train sailors in warfare tactics and C4 operations. The company is slated to deliver its Naval Warfare Training System to Sweden’s navy in late 2015 and will also provide technical support as well as […] More

Anthony Salvi, a nine-year veteran of CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined Reston, Va.-based consulting firm MetroStar Systems as chief operating officer, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. The former CACI senior vice president for enterprise solutions will be in charge of MetroStar’s business development, operations and strategy. “We are confident that he will be a great contributor and exceptional business […] More

The Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aircraft Global Hawk recorded 665 flight hours during exercise and operational activities for the week that ended Feb. 23, 2014. To date, the high altitude long endurance drone has flown more than 110,000 hours to support global missions of the Air Force, Navy and NASA, Northrop said Wednesday. Global Hawk logged 433.8 hours […] More

Autodesk and the National Park Service held a press conference on Memorial Day to present the initial results of their survey of the USS Arizona and the 3D printout models created from these findings. Using Autodesk technology such as reality computing, underwater photogrammetry, subsea LiDAR, high-resolution sonar and above-water laser scanning, the team produced a partial 3D printout of […] More

Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, recently visited Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding facility for a look into the construction process and progress on two aircraft carriers. HII said Thursday Kendall was given a 3-D model demonstration of the adjustments to the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) aircraft carrier based on results from work on the Gerald […] 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

James Ellis Jr., a member of the Level 3 Communications board of directors for more than nine years, has been appointed chairman of the board following Walter Scott Jr.’s retirement. “Jim brings more than 40 years of experience in managing and leading complex, technology-focused organizations to this appointment,” Jeff Storey, Level 3 president and chief executive officer, said […] More

Pentagon science adviser Howard Meyer has suggested conditions are ripe for the emergence of directed energy weapons as the military is lowering expectations for laser technology and the likelihood of an attack is increasing, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Sydney Freedberg writes Mayer expressed confidence that the Defense Department’s laser weapons system programs will take off by […] More

The U.S. military can increasingly look to the contractor workforce as a source for training and augmentation services as the Defense Department eyes control of personnel costs as a means to control the defense budget, according to retired Air Force Col. Scott Seavers. Seavers, who joined Fairfax, Va.-based Salient Federal Solutions as a vice president […] More

A United Technologies Corp.‘s business unit will push forward the design and development of an energy system for the Office of Naval Research‘s Long Endurance Undersea Vehicle Propulsion program. As part of the program’s next phases, UTC Aerospace Systems will create an energy system for an unmanned undersea vehicle using proton exchange membrane fuel cells to replace current […] More

James Buchman, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined The SPECTRUM Group‘s Air Force team following 25 years of military service, bringing his public and private sector work experience to the company’s consulting practice. “His substantial expertise in Air Force and Foreign Military Sales programs, as well as his deep understanding of education and training concepts, […] More

General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has won a $63 million contract to develop, implement and maintain a healthcare billing system for the service branches, the company said Thursday. The Armed Forces Billing and Collection Utilization Solution is intended to help the U.S. Army Medical Command, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and U.S. Air […] More