The University of Nevada in Las Vegas has signed partnership agreement with Lockheed Martin to support space exploration projects such as NASA’s Orion program. Lockheed will allocate up to $5 million in space exploration-related task orders for UNLV’s Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering under the five-year agreement, the university said Tuesday. “This effort will allow both Lockheed Martin and UNLV to provide meaningful […] More

Rockwell Collins and the U.S. Air Force have conducted a live flight test to demonstrate the data transfer functionality of a wideband high-frequency communications system. The company said Tuesday its WBHF system worked to relay data from a C-17 aircraft to a land-based station over a distance of at least 1,500 miles for a period of […] More

The U.K. defense ministry has selected Airbus to provide data protection technology for the British version of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet and other military aircraft, Defense News reported Sunday. Andrew Chuter writes the Airbus local key management system technology will work to store, protect and distribute encrypted data on F-35, Airbus-built Voyager A330 inflight […] More

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has called for a reassessment of the bid submitted by an Oshkosh Corp. subsidiary for the $638 million Medium Support Vehicle System Standard Military Pattern contract. CITT made the recommendation to Canada’s department of public works and government services following a four-month review after Oshkosh Defense Canada challenged the contract award decision on […] More

Turner Construction Company Regional Director of Community Affairs Ruby Jones has taken a new role as the company’s community and citizenship compliance director. Jones coordinates with the human resources and operations groups in an effort to assist the company comply with the Labor Department‘s office of federal contract compliance programs federal laws and regulations and serve […] More

Northrop Grumman has partnered with M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings to develop and produce radar arrays intended for use in defense platforms and related programs. MACOM will use its active antenna platform to manufacture radar systems under the teaming agreement with Northrop, MACOM said Tuesday. “This relationship supports our continuing pursuit of advanced radar systems,” said Thomas Jones, sector […] More

Akeem Iman-Jones serves as director of human resources for the business development and strategy and communications organizations at Boeing‘s defense, space and security business. He oversees all aspects of the organizations’ HR programs and brings more than 15 years of human resources operational management experience to the company. Before he joined Boeing in December 2013, […] More

Dan Cloyd, former director of maritime operations at the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, has been named corporate director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and naval aviation programs at Northrop Grumman. Northrop said Friday Cloyd will report to Timothy Jones, vice president of aviation and ISR programs, and will coordinate corporate strategies with the U.S. Navy. […] More

Rockwell Collins and GPS Source have test-fitted a global positioning system receiver card in a Defense Advanced GPS Receiver Distributed Device. The military-code ground-based GPS receiver application module is designed to track and navigate with the C/A, Y and M-code, Rockwell Collins said June 22. “This demonstration paves the way for the D3 to incorporate the […] More

The Aerospace Corp. has promoted Timothy N. Jones, formerly principal engineer at the firm’s national intelligence division, to general manager of NID. Jones will oversee all intelligence operations for the company’s clients and will report to Catherine Steele, senior vice president of national systems unit, Aerospace said Thursday. Prior to returning to Aerospace in 2014, […] More

The Georgia Institute of Technology has inducted Christopher Jones, corporate vice president and president of technical services at Northrop Grumman, into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni for his achievements in the field of engineering. Jones accepted the award from Dr. Gary S. May, Georgia Tech’s dean of college of engineering and electrical and computer […] More

Christopher Jones, corporate vice president and president of technical services at  Northrop Grumman, has been elected as an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. AIAA said Tuesday Jones and 146 other professionals were cited for their work in the engineering and science of aeronautics and astronautics. Jones holds positions on several boards of directors, including the Air Force […] More