Michael Harper, deputy chairman and senior independent director at QinetiQ, will succeed the retiring Noreen Doyle as as chairperson of the board of directors’ remuneration committee next month. QinetiQ Chairman Mark Elliott thanked Doyle for her leadership in international business and corporate finance and noted her contributions as a non-executive director since October 2005 and remuneration […] More

QinetiQ will continue to help maintain hardware components the company developed for the International Space Station’s Columbus module under a contract extension through the end of this year. The company said Tuesday that it has also been working with Airbus to support the QinetiQ-developed scientific instruments for research inside the module. Airbus acts as a subcontractor and oversees replacement […] More

Capgemini, IBM and QinetiQ have partnered with British information technology training group E-Skills to offer cybersecurity apprenticeships across the U.K., Computing.co.uk reported Thursday. Sooraj Shah writes the alliance seeks to hire and train more than 100 apprentices by this summer. Other program partners include Airbus, BT Group and Atos. “It is our goal to make […] More

QinetiQ’s space division has won a $1.5 million contract from the European Space Agency to develop a prototype unit for space water treatment. The prototype will be built to pioneer a system for recycling urine and waste water for future space missions, QinetiQ said March 10. Sanjay Razdan, managing director of new technologies at QinetiQ […] More

QinetiQ North America has been awarded a five-year, $16 million contract to provide engineering, program management and technical support services to a U.S. Navy battlefield science and technology organization. QNA will lead a team of eight contractors to support work in the Office of Naval Research’s expeditionary maneuver warfare and combating terrorism department, QNA said Tuesday. The […] More

Saudi Arabia’s national guard ministry plans to award a contract in September 2014 for maintenance work on 60 helicopters stationed in the country’s capital of Riyadh. QinetiQ North America said Thursday it is a member of a Northrop Grumman-led team competing for that contract and additional members include the PAE-owned subsidiary DS2, AAR and Vinnell Arabia. […] More

QinetiQ North America has been awarded two task orders worth $15 million combined from the General Services Administration for information technology and software development services. The agency’s Public Buildings Service issued the orders through GSA’s Information Technology and Development Services blanket purchase agreement, QNA said Tuesday. For the Enterprise Data Repository Management task order, the […] More

Joan Schwartz and Doug Dangremond have joined QinetiQ subsidiary Cyveillance as vice presidents of human resources and sales, respectively. Schwartz formerly served as human resources director at Mandiant until that company was purchased by FireEye and Dangremond previously was a sales director at GTSI, Cyveillance said Monday. “There is an ever-growing need for organizations to employ global threat intelligence to […] More

QinetiQ has assessed the structural design of a multinational submarine rescue platform to determine how the system responds to fatigue and fracture problems. The Submarine Rescue System is built for NATO allies such as France, Norway and the U.K. and has undergone a stress-life fatigue analysis by QinetiQ, the company said Monday. Lloyds Register and […] More

QinetiQ North America has won a $12 million contract to develop mapping and prediction models for the Naval Research Laboratory‘s oceanography programs. QNA will build ocean modeling, remote sensing and physical oceanography systems under the three-year contract, QNA said Wednesday. “We have over 25 years of expertise in ocean modeling and related support, and we appreciate […] More

QinetiQ North America and BroadSoft have moved to extend their partnership to develop unified communications services for federal, defense and intelligence customers. QNA will provide hosted, BroadCloud-based unified communications technology and expand existing offering with BroadSoft’s unified communications services, QNA said Tuesday. John Sutton, executive vice president and general manager of mission services at QNA, said […] More

Executive Mosaic, the premier media and events organization in the government contracting sector, is honored to announce the 2024 edition of the highly anticipated Wash100 Award. Now in its historic 11th year, the Wash100 Award recognizes the top 100 industry executives and government leaders in the GovCon community for their outstanding leadership, positive impact and […] More