Nichols Martin

Lockheed Martin has opened a facility in Pinellas Park, Florida, to manufacture canopies and bulkheads for F-35 fighter jets. The company said Monday it will commence operations at the manufacturing facility in mid-May and aims to create more than 80 new jobs there through mid-2019. Nearly 270 employees currently work at Lockheed’s Pinellas Park site, which the company expanded to add […] More

Rockwell Collins has provided systems and services to aid testing efforts under NASA‘s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management program. The company said Monday it served as a UAS service supplier to help the agency manage safety of a UAS operating beyond visual line of sight during flight tests. The two-week test series demonstrated the consecutive, repetitive use of […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries has installed the forward section of the main deck on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the company is building for the U.S. Navy. HII said Monday its Newport News Shipbuilding division has completed approximately 75 percent of USS John F. Kennedy structures through a “modular” building process, wherein smaller sections of a ship are consolidated into […] More

Sallie Bailey, executive vice president and chief financial officer at building materials manufacturing company Louisiana-Pacific, has joined Harris‘ board of directors. In her current role, Bailey oversees LP’s accounting, financial reporting, treasury, internal audit, information technology and corporate communications functions, Harris said Friday. She also serves as a director at wire manufacturer General Cable. Bailey previously worked as VP and […] More