Roger Mason serves as senior vice president for national security and intelligence at Noblis and also oversees Noblis ESI, a wholly owned subsidiary. He was most recently the first assistant director of national intelligence for systems and resource analyses at ODNI where he advised senior leaders on critical intelligence decisions. He left his VP role at Noblis […] More

U.S. contractors’ investments in overseas markets and other business segments this year should help offset the impact of weak domestic orders and defense spending limits, The Washington Post reported Monday. Amrita Jayakumar writes that General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grummanposted stronger profits in the companies’ earnings reports for the first quarter of 2014 but […] More

An IBM weather analytics technology has been adopted by the Flint River Partnership to aid in water conservation efforts along the lower portion of Georgia’s Flint River basin. The Flint River Partnership uses IBM’s Deep Thunder climate forecasting tool to help farmers manage irrigation scheduling as well as minimize the impact of drought, IBM said […] More

The shipping and distribution industry is increasingly turning to cloud computing for use in business operations, Verizon‘s Maria Montenegro wrote in a blog post published Tuesday. Montenegro, a communications manager at the company, said one of the drivers of cloud adoption in the industry is is the need for IT and software applications to manage […] More

The Norfolk Ship Repair team at BAE Systems is continuing work on a program to help restore the oyster population in the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Va. BAE built an oyster reef several years ago and is now raising juvenile oysters in floating cages located throughout the river, the company announced Tuesday. The company has mentored […] More

Lockheed Martin and the Alliance to Save Energy have selected five schools from Maryland county school districts that have each won $1,000 from a competition intended to inspire students to advocate energy efficiency to friends and family. The winners of the PowerSavers Challenge were chosen from 21 schools and more than 100 students, Lockheed Martin […] More

A bridge in Vietnam designed by Louis Berger and Ammann & Whitney has won the best project award in the bridges/tunnel category for Engineering News-Record’s 2014 Global Best Project Awards. The companies designed the 666-meter Dragon Bridge in Da Nang, Vietnam in the image of a dragon flying across the Han River, Louis Berger announced […] More

Mark Jones serves as senior sales director at CA Technologies, where he oversees the public sector healthcare vertical. He has been at the Islandia, NY.-based firm for close to 20 years where he has held a number of leadership roles and has worked with federal customers for 18 years. Jones spoke to ExecutiveBiz about a variety of […] More

John Thomas joined Leidos as the Reston, Va.-based national security, health and engineering contractor’s chief strategic officer after Leidos’ 2013 separation from the legacy SAIC organization, where he most recently led close-to-13,000 analysts, scientists, engineers, and business professionals as acting president of SAIC’s National Security Sector. Thomas joined SAIC as an executive focused on military […] More

This is the first part of interview with Joe Kernan, vice president of business development at SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2), on his company’s non-profit organization NS2 Serves, and its mission to train veterans in information technology and help them gain employment after service. To watch a video on the program that will air […] More

Parsons‘ street lighting project in Abu Dhabi has won the Lighting Project of the Year award at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Center last week. The company was recognized for its design and construction supervision services of Ras Al Akhdar Bainoonah Street, Parsons announced Wednesday. Parsons is one of 25 companies that were shortlisted […] More

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have finished the first test flight phase for the company’s Triton unmanned aircraft system in an effort to evaluate how the drone flies at different altitudes, speeds and weights. The company said Monday 568 test points were evaluated during the initial envelope expansion test program through 13 simulated flight tests, 81 hours of long-endurance […] More