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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
NASA evaluated how a mock-up of Lockheed Martin‘s Orion crew capsule would handle landing in high altitude with three main parachutes during a flight demonstration on Wednesday. The parachute system helped to land NASA’s Orion demonstrator after being dropped from a military transport aircraft flying 35,000 feet above Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, NASA said Wednesday. […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will start evaluating four proposed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft designs by the end of next month, IHS Janes’s 360 reported Wednesday. Gareth Jennings writes that Brian Ritter, a program manager at Boeing, told reporters Tuesday that DARPA will review VTOL X-Plane prototypes from Boeing, Aurora Flight Sciences, Karem and Sikorsky. DARPA […] More
Chris Chadwick, president and CEO of Boeing‘s defense business, predicts that government spending cuts worldwide will drive more partnerships and consolidations in the defense sector, Defense News reported Wednesday. Aaron Mehta writes that Chadwick discussed the role of strategic alliances in the industry during a media event held Tuesday at a Boeing corporate office in St […] More
A consortium led by Optomec has been awarded a $4 million project to develop three-dimensional printing methods to repair metallic aerospace structures for the U.S. Air Force. The 3D printer company will collaborate with GE Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce and 20 other organizations to explore additive manufacturing techniques under the Re-Born in the USA project, […] More
Raytheon UK has partnered with Falck Schmidt Defence Systems to build and sell a portfolio of auxiliary power units and integration service offerings in the North American and European defense markets. The partnership is intended to combine Raytheon’s and Falck Schmidt’s experience in designing, manufacturing and testing integrated power systems for military use, Raytheon said […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has expanded its cyber offerings that aim to address data security threats facing U.S. government and commercial organizations. The company employs more than 350 cybersecurity staff who provide information technology consulting, engineering and operations support to customers in the public and private sectors, SAIC said Monday. “We utilize our cyber experience […] More
Urban Insights Associates has formed a new consulting practice that will work to help transit agencies leverage big data and analytic tools to improve commuter service. The Cubic Transportation Systems subsidiary intends to collaborate with industry to manage urban transportation efficiency by harnessing an Apache Hadoop-based data management platform, Urban Insights said Monday. “One of […] More
Inmarsat has certified L-3 Datron Advanced Technologies‘ satellite antenna products for operation on the Global Xpress broadband communications network. The companies also agreed to explore new market opportunities for satellite COTM terminals through the second phase of Inmarsat’s GX terminal development program, Inmarsat said Thursday. Peter Hadinger, Inmarsat president for its U.S. government business unit, […] More
The Navy has awarded RDRTec a $3 million contract to develop a radar technology that would allow drones to sense and avoid other aircraft in airspace, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes that RDRTech will build an autonomous collision avoidance system for the Navy’s fleet of MQ-8 Fire Scout and MQ-4C Triton […] More
Brian Stevens, chief technology officer at Red Hat, says the company will continue to pursue acquisition deals to grow its OpenStack-powered enterprise cloud offerings, GigaOM reported Thursday. Mathew Ingram writes that Red Hat has agreed to acquire distributed file system provider Inktank for $175 million and signed a deal to buy open-source cloud services provider […] More
UXC, an information technology services provider, has acquired two companies specializing in Oracle and SAP platforms to further grow UXC’s enterprise resource planning software business, CRN Australia reported Thursday. Steven Kiernan writes that UXC disclosed its two new acquisition deals during a market update Wednesday and it expects to close both transactions this month. The […] More
Hewlett-Packard conducts service delivery reviews to gain new technological ideas and use these to improve customer experience, Washington Technology reported Wednesday. Nick Wakeman writes that Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager for public sector at HP Enterprise Services, has said the current business landscape pushes HP to collaborate with clients on balancing cost […] More
