At Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector, Matt McQueen acts as its main spokesperson and communications liason to external stakeholders as the sector’s director of strategic and external communications. McQueen’s career at Northrop prior to that role includes nearly a decade as director for the sector’s government and industry relations functions and more recently as the company’s government relations lead for all state […] More

Hitachi Consulting has received a certification from SAP to provide hosting services to customers for the SAP HANA platform. As a certified provider, Hitachi will perform information technology services on SAP applications such as proof-of-concepts and deployments of customers’ SAP HANA-based services, Hitachi said Monday. Mike Driessen, a senior vice president at Hitachi Consulting, said the […] More

Rockwell Collins will serve as lead research firm for NASA‘s Single Pilot Operations program under a contract to study automation, ground support and crew capacity technologies for commercial aircraft through the end of September 2015. “The aviation industry has been looking at the potential for single-pilot operations for quite some time to address concerns about future pilot […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency is studying the market for vendors that can process and aggregate open source data for the agency’s Information Volume and Velocity portfolio. In a sources sought announcement posted on FedBizOpps, DISA’s Advanced Concepts and Experimentation Division said it wants to find out if there are companies with a capability to extract Internet data in […] More

Robert Zitz is a senior vice president and chief systems architect at Leidos, tasked to help oversee development efforts on the company’s business, technology and technical plans, concepts and strategies. He has more than three decades of experience in the intelligence community space, previously filling leadership roles at the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, […] More

Airbus has partnered with South Africa’s National Aerospace Centre to finance a three-year research project on applying hydrogen fuel cell technology to airplanes. The project, which aims to eventually eliminate carbon dioxide emissions and lessen noise and costs in commercial airline operations, was launched at the Hydrogen South Africa Systems Competence Center at the University of […] More

One of the greatest crises facing government and business today is the crisis of character. Nearly every day, news media are flooded with stories about corruption, sexual harassment, fraud, waste, abuse and other wrongdoing in both the public and private sectors. It seems the Washington area is not immune to it but rather ripe for […] More

(Editor’s note: this interview took place prior to ATK’s April announcement that the company would spinoff its sporting division into an independent company and merge its aerospace and defense businesses with Orbital Sciences. Click here to read GovCon Wire’s coverage of both transactions.) As senior vice president and chief information officer at ATK, Jeff Kubacki acts as the Arlington, […] More

The CrescoAg Corporation and Raytheon Company said last week that they have joined forces on the development of next-generation technologies and analytics to increase productivity and streamline operations for agricultural producers. CrescoAg’s agricultural knowledge, farming expertise and relationships with crop farmers–paired with Raytheon’s abilities in engineering, climatic science, sensor technology and systems integration–will be a […] More

The United Launch Alliance has signed contracts with several U.S. companies to move towards creating a next-generation rocket engine, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin will choose one company to investigate next-generation liquid oxygen/ hydrocarbon first stage propulsion concepts to build the rocket engine as an alternative […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton had five teams across the firm pitch their best ideas for helping clients solve problems to a panel of judges during a series of presentations at the firm’s “Combustion Chamber” event June 5. The firm said Thursday that it received 40 submissions for ideas from partnerships with startups, alliances with third parties and […] More

Research and development work in the life sciences fields can yield a large amount of data that can be difficult to consolidate and analyze for specific insights, says Ted Slater, a solutions architect at YarcData. Slater said Tuesday that for such a data environment, using traditional knowledge management tools such as relational databases could be inconvenient as they require a […] More