Jane Edwards

Northrop Grumman has helped the U.S. Navy train a detachment of air vehicle operators from the service branch’s helicopter sea combat squadron 23 to perform a two-part flight demonstration of the Northrop-built MQ-8B Fire Scout autonomous helicopter. The Navy conducted in May the first part of the demonstration in which AVOs at a naval auxiliary landing […] More

Rockwell Collins and NASA have begun to integrate new functionalities into the sonic boom display prototype to preview impacts and develop modifications to flight plans in an effort to help pilots reduce the risk of sonic boom impacts on the ground. Development work on the prototype continues after NASA and the company demonstrated a sonic […] More

David Alexander, president of General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business, has lauded and expressed support to President Donald Trump’s commitment to counter the theft of U.S. intellectual property. “The U.S. defense industry has certainly been subject to these aggressive actions and intellectual property theft has been extremely detrimental to U.S. national security,” Alexander said in a […] More

IronNet Cybersecurity CEO Keith Alexander has expressed support to President Donald Trump’s memorandum on China’s trade practices saying the measure would help put an end to the “theft and forced transfers” of U.S. intellectual property. Trump on Monday signed a presidential memo that directs the U.S. trade representative to decide whether to conduct a formal investigation into […] More

The U.S. Navy has asked General Atomics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to submit proposed concepts for a carrier-based unmanned aerial refueling tanker through an updated draft request for proposals issued in July, USNI News reported Thursday. The service branch plans to release the final RFP for the MQ-25A Stingray program in the fall of 2017 […] More

Onvia has introduced a sales intelligence platform designed to help sales and marketing professionals identify and manage government contract leads as well as share information on those leads with distributors and channel partners. Onvia 8 is a software-as-a-service platform that works to allow users to access data related to request for proposals and government bids, […] More

Bloomberg Government has introduced a new dashboard designed to help users view expiring government contracts and task orders awarded through the 8(a) set-aside program. Approximately 9,500 expiring federal contracts worth $14 billion combined will be available by Sept. 1 for recompetition as 3,300 small disadvantaged businesses that won contracts through the 8(a) program will no longer […] More