NASA took the first step Friday in what it hopes to be a new era for human space exploration as the agency sent the Orion capsule into a nearly four-hour orbit to evaluate its potential for future missions via Boeing‘s Space Launch System. Engineers for NASA and Orion constructor Lockheed Martin focused much of their attention […] More

Northrop Grumman has handed over the U.S. Navy‘s first MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaisance missions. The MQ-8C is designed to have a larger airframe and fly with three times more ISR payload than its predecessor variant MQ-8B, Northrop said Wednesday. “The test program will run through the summer as we […] More

Robert Carey serves as vice president and general manager for the public sector cybersecurity business at Computer Sciences Corp. He joined the company in April after a 32-year government career that concluded with three-and-a-half years of work as principal chief information officer at the U.S. Defense Department. Carey also led eBusiness and smart card programs […] More

Dwight Hunsicker brings nearly  three decades of telecommunications and GovCon experience to his role as senior vice president and general manager of government solutions at Globecomm. His background also includes time at WorldLinks, a communications services firm he co-founded and served as chief operating officer at, and a business development leadership role at Westinghouse. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Hunsicker […] More

Autonomic Resources‘ cloud platform has passed the Defense Department‘s impact level five assessment for the agency’s cloud security model. Veris Group conducted the evaluation process on Autonomic Resources’ 68 new security controls against DoD’s requirements, Autonomic Resources said Wednesday. “The additional security controls applied to ARC-P to gain DoD approval are also applied to all civilian agencies’ infrastructures,” said John […] More

Jim Reagan serves as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Vencore, the company formerly known as The SI Organization prior to its acquisition of QinetiQ‘s U.S. services business. In this role, he leads the development and implementation of financial strategies across the company’s enterprise. Prior to Vencore, Reagan led all financial operations for PAE […] More

Robert Hale, formerly comptroller and chief financial officer of the Defense Department, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as fellow and senior executive adviser. Hale most recently served as the principal adviser on budgetary and fiscal matters to three defense secretaries, Booz Allen said Monday. “Bob Hale possesses all of the outstanding professional credentials, national and international stature, and […] More

Jonathan Moneymaker oversees areas such as corporate strategy, business development, capture and legislative affairs in his role as chief strategy officer at Altamira Corp., the company that formed out of the Invertix–Near Infinity merger last year. A former business unit general manager from Boeing, Moneymaker’s GovCon career includes leadership roles in mergers and acquisitions such as Anonymizer‘s combination […] More

Karl Williams serves as chief operating officer for PAE, where he is responsible for the company’s three business units. Williams served as vice president and general manager of Engility’s government services business before he joined PAE in April. He has also served as Engility’s business controller with responsibility in financial management of the company’s global operational assets. Williams’ career includes time […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has received 11 domestic patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the third quarter of 2014 for the company’s location-based services and communications and messaging technology. Bob Held, TCS vice president of intellectual asset management, said Tuesday the patents are part of a monetization campaign on the company’s intellectual property. USPTO issued patents for TCS technology in prepaid short […] More

Northrop Grumman has created an integrated circuit amplifier that works operate at one terahertz as part of a three-phase contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for transistor-based electronics. The company said Tuesday its terahertz monolithic integrated circuit is built with an indium phosphide high electron mobility transistor at 25-nanometer gatelength that works to help signals reach the high-frequency terahertz band. […] More

Saab‘s defense and security business will provide Raytheon with hardware and software development support for the latter firm’s Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radar contract with the U.S. Air Force. Erik Smith, vice president and general manager of the Saab Defense and Security sensor systems segment, said Thursday that the company wants the technology supply contract to generate high-tech […] More