A new Transparency Market Research report states that air-to-ground and surface-to-air missiles dominated the global smart weapons market in 2012, with further growth projected to give the market a value of $66.91 billion by 2019. The company said Thursday the market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 10.3 percent from $34 billion in 2012 to reach the projected […] More

Lockheed Martin has renamed Sim-Industries into Lockheed Martin Commercial Flight Training and appointed Sandy Samuel as vice president and general manager of the organization. Samuel succeeds Jeffrey Wood, who will move to a new leadership position within Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, the company said Monday. Jon Rambeau, VP and GM of Lockheed Martin training and logistics services, […] More

Leidos has outlined its ethics and compliance, philanthropic and environmental programs over the past year in the company’s annual corporate responsibility report. The company said Monday it donated more than $2 million to charities and its staff volunteered more than 16,000 hours of their time to promote STEM education as well as support military veteran […] More

Leidos will donate $100 to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation for every blocked shot during the Washington Wizards’ Defending the Rim program. Roger Krone, Leidos CEO, said Tuesday the company supports “military veterans, troops and their families through several organizations, including the USO (United Service Organizations) and Special Operations Warrior Foundation.” Leidos will also host […] More

Research and advisory firm ExecRank has unveiled its annual list of 250 of the “Top CIOs for 2014,” a ranking of chief information officers across all industries that evaluates these leaders across 24 different categories. For this exercise, ExecRank says it developed a series of algorithms over three years to measure executive performance and predict future executive […] More

Dr. Pamela Drew serves as executive vice president and president of the information systems business area at Exelis. Dr. Drew leads the organization in providing system architecture, development, integration, testing, evaluation, maintenance and sustainment services to government customers. Before Exelis, she was senior VP for strategic capabilities and technology at TASC and also led that […] More

John Hinshaw, executive vice president for technology and operations at Hewlett Packard, has been named an independent director of the board of directors at DocuSign. “John not only brings deep expertise in cloud, security and mobility, but he is a customer-focused operational leader who leverages technology to drive innovation and transformation,” Keith Krach, DocuSign chairman […] More

Lockheed Martin has updated a command and control system for the Missile Defense Agency to evaluate at MDA’s missile defense integration and operations center. The Command Control, Battle Management and Communications System is designed to help commanders view missile threats, Lockheed said Wednesday. Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR at Lockheed, said the company gave the system an update in order to […] More

Nadia Short serves as vice president and general manager for the cyber and intelligence solutions division within General Dynamics‘ advanced information systems business. The 18-year company veteran leads an organization that works to deliver cybersecurity, intelligence, analysis, network exploitation, digital forensics and incident response technologies in the government and commercial sectors. She has also served […] More

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‘s Australian business unit was officially launched at a ceremony held Tuesday night at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. “Our firm objective is to add to the national security of Australia in the region and that our contribution will provide an enduring capability for the country,” Ian Irving, CEO of Northrop Grumman Australia, […] More

Northrop Grumman has appointed Faith Jennings as communications director for the unmanned systems division and Vic Beck as communications director for the military aircraft group, both under the company’s aerospace systems business. “Communications to customers, employees, the media and other critical influencers is vital to our success, and Faith and Vic each bring deep industry knowledge and proven experience […] More