Austal USA has started building an auxiliary floating dry dock medium for the U.S. Navy at its Gulf Coast ship manufacturing facility. The construction is the third one to be performed on Austal USA’s advanced steel assembly line following two of Navy’s towing, salvage and rescue ships, the Mobile, Alabama-based shipbuilder said Monday.  The Rennie-type […] More

Teledyne FLIR has completed the 1,000th delivery of a company-built unmanned ground vehicle under the U.S. Army’s Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II contract. The Army and three other service branches have collectively ordered more than $250 million in Centaur robots since the contract was awarded in 2017, Teledyne FLIR said Wednesday. Military customers procured […] More

Today, the impact of software on the battlespace is stronger than ever, and the Department of Defense has recognized the necessity of upgrading its systems to keep pace with United States adversaries. In February 2022, the department released its first software modernization strategy, a three-pronged approach designed to drive these efforts forward. According to Rob Vietmeyer, chief […] More

The U.S. Department of Defense has been involved in the space arena for a long time. It has been putting satellites into orbit for 50 years and launching rockets for 70 years. However, since procurement timelines for technologies at the DOD can be notoriously slow, the department instituted the Space Development Agency in 2019 to […] More

Slingshot Aerospace has expanded its executive team with the appointment of Leslie Hildebrand as senior vice president of government business development and strategy and Pieter Kreuk as chief financial officer. In a statement on Wednesday, Melanie Stricklan, co-founder and CEO of Slingshot Aerospace, said the two executives will play pivotal roles in shaping the future of the […] More

With nearly two decades at IBM, Don Fenhagen has held a variety of roles across the company’s commercial and government sectors. He is currently part of IBM Consulting’s federal market organization as a managing client partner overseeing the organization’s national security sector. When explaining his tenure at IBM, Fenhagen cited the company’s wide range of opportunities, positive work […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to enshrine the work of Cameron Chehreh with the 2023 Wash100 Award. This year, we celebrate the Intel public sector vice president and general manager for his leadership in advancing semiconductor chip technology production and in helping to forge partnerships, especially with research and educational institutions. 2023 marks the 10-year anniversary of the […] More

The Crew Dragon Endeavor mission has docked at the International Space Station, carrying two astronauts from the U.S., one astronaut from Russia and one from the United Arab Emirates who are part of the sixth SpaceX commercial crew rotation program aboard the orbital laboratory. NASA announced that SpaceX Crew-6, composed of its astronauts Stephen Bowen […] More

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The National Science Foundation and SpaceX have signed a new coordination agreement to mitigate the potential impact of the company’s Starlink satellite constellation on ground-based radio, infrared and optical astronomy facilities operating between the 10.6 and 10.7 GHz band. Under the agreement, SpaceX committed to examining the impact of astronomical facility lasers on satellites, coordinating […] More

In pursuing a stronger presence in federal contracting, SpaceX has launched the Starshield satellite network, which is geared towards national security support for government organizations. Utilizing the company’s existing Starlink technology, the Starshield business aims to focus on the areas of earth observation, communications and hosted payloads. Starshield’s website states that the satellite network provides secure data […] More

Northrop Grumman kicked off a seventh cargo flight under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract on Monday morning to deliver over 8,200 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The Cygnus spacecraft, nicknamed ‘S.S. Sally Ride’ after the first American woman to reach space, launched from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility […] More