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

Lockheed Martin has test-fired a Javelin missile from its turret during a demonstration at the Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Center in England. The company’s UK and U.S. teams worked together for nine months produce the turret and then fire both a 30-milimeter cannon and a Javelin missile, Lockheed Martin said Thursday. Alan Lines, vice president […] More

John Harris II, Raytheon International CEO, has asked industry and government leaders to build up defense technologies through transatlantic industrial cooperation. Harris addressed his statement to participants of a panel discussion on the future of European defense during the 50th Munich Security Conference, Raytheon said Friday. “We need to pursue initiatives that deliver greater cost efficiencies in […] More

Exelis has completed upgrade work on an encryption software for the ground operational control system of the GPS satellite constellation. The OCX MUG software is built to help controllers on the ground to adjust and monitor a satellite’s positioning while in orbit, Exelis said Thursday. Exelis designed the technology to configure spacecraft payloads and manage […] More

Lynne Chamberlain serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. The more than 20-year industry veteran has been at Red Hat since 2004 and has previously held leadership roles at Unisys, HP and NetApp. In her Q&A with ExecutiveBiz, Chamberlain discussed her work with systems integrators, some of the newest cloud offerings […] More