Doug Jankovich, a more than two-decade U.S. Air Force veteran, was appointed as vice president of international strategy and growth at HII‘s mission technologies business arm, according to a LinkedIn post on Sunday.  The executive most recently served as VP of strategy and growth at the military shipbuilding company and was a VP of business […] More

John Infantolino, formerly a vice president at Leonardo DRS, was appointed as a principal in the Technology+ practice of CohnReznick and will be based at the advisory, assurance and tax firm’s Tysons, Virginia location. CohnReznick said Thursday Infantolino brings to his new role experience in providing government contractors with advice on their enterprise resource planning […] More

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary, will deliver open architecture air combat training equipment to the U.S. Navy as part of the second low-rate production order worth $24 million. The recent award for Tactical Combat Training System – Increment II provides for airborne and ground subsystems as well as fielding requirement support at Navy training […] More

L3Harris Technologies has been selected by Moog to produce sighting technology the latter will integrate onto a remote turret being built for Increment 1 of the U.S. Army’s Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense platform. Moog ordered 33 Wescam MX-GCS systems designed to help military vehicle operators find, identify and monitor threats, L3Harris said Wednesday. Deliveries of […] More

Leonardo DRS has awarded Moog an initial contract to manufacture 30 remote turrets that will be part of mission equipment packages for new U.S. Army ground systems intended to defend against manned and unmanned aircraft threats. Moog said Wednesday it will supply one Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform turret demonstrator, 28 RIwPs and one spare for the […] More

Lockheed Martin has ordered more than 150 training subsystems for the F-35 Lightning II Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation system from Cubic's mission and performance solutions business under a $32 million contract between the two companies.

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The U.S. Navy has used an F/A-18E/F Hornet multirole fighter to demonstrate an air combat training platform built by Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace subsidiary as part of the system's developmental test phase.

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A General Atomics-made drone self-protection system demonstrated tracking and situational awareness functions as part of a project with U.S. Special Operations Command. The company said Friday its MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft used the new Self-Protection Pod to track infrared missile and radio frequency threats during a demonstration on Oct. 28 at Yuma Proving Grounds.

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The Department of Defense has allocated a total of $17.4M to help four companies expand domestic COVID-19 diagnostic testing and retain workforce capacities at the defense industrial base.

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Collins Aerospace concluded pre-production efforts for a training pod designed to optimize training realism and secure various techniques, tactics and processes.

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Northrop Grumman tested the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System along with an MBDA-built modular missile and a radar tool from Saab during a joint demonstration.

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DynCorp International announced on Tuesday that James Cassella has been promoted to be the company’s new chief growth officer. Cassella will focus on business development and corporate strategy to capitalize on the company’s growth.

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