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Northrop Grumman has hired an additional 30 employees to support the production of composite aerospace structures at a repurposed facility in West Valley City, Utah. The company said Friday it aims to add 100 jobs in the coming years at the site, which uses automated forming processes to develop and manufacture composite materials for the […] More
Kim Rupert, chief risk officer at Science Applications International Corp., has been included in the Washington Business Journal’s 15th annual list of top 25 influential businesswomen in the Washington, D.C., metro area. The journal received approximately 400 nominations for the 2018 Women Who Mean Business list that recognizes women for their leadership skills, performance in […] More
The White House will administer a meeting with several government, commercial and academic entities to discuss ways to apply quantum computing technology in national security missions, Reuters reported Monday. AT&T, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Honeywell International are expected to participate in the forum. Jake Taylor, assistant director for quantum information science at the White House’s Office of […] More
Arlington, Va.-based Sehlke Consulting has developed an approach to assist government clients to simplify and accelerate the acquisition life cycle using agile methodologies. Sehlke also employs an agile information technology framework in efforts to deliver capabilities on IT programs that support core agency missions. The company said it uses a performance-oriented, best-value approach leveraging its business and […] More
The Missile Defense Agency intends to award Raytheon a five-year contract to produce Standard Missile-3 Block IIA all-up-rounds for U.S. and foreign military customers beginning in fiscal 2019. MDA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice the possible contract action is contingent upon the approval of initial SM-3 BLK IIA production and the agency may issue additional orders […] More
Northrop Grumman has opened a facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to train AC-208 Eliminator aircrews to operate and maintain the reconnaissance and ground attack aircraft. The AC-208 Training Center of Excellence located at Meacham Airport will offer instruction on platform and mission system maintenance and operations to partner nations, with initial sessions lasting for up to four months, Northrop said […] More
A General Dynamics subsidiary has begun to construct the first of six future U.S. Navy replenishment tankers designed to supply the service branch’s carrier strike group with fuel. General Dynamics NASSCO and Navy representatives gathered Thursday to celebrate the cutting of USNS John Lewis fleet oiler’s first piece of steel, the company said Friday. The ship will be built to carry […] More
Technical and Project Engineering has landed the 25th spot on the Washington Business Journal’s list of largest veteran-owned companies in the greater D.C. region. Louisa Long Jaffe, president and CEO of TAPE, said in a statement released Thursday she hopes the listing provides further evidence to public and private sector organizations that the company can serve as […] More
AT&T has dedicated a new space in one of its innovation centers for the development of new technologies for vertical industries such as manufacturing, retail, finance, healthcare and the public sector. The new area in the AT&T Foundry hub in Plano, Texas will introduce AT&T’s offerings in digital technology and cybersecurity, as well as house […] More
Lockeed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $58.4M delivery order to provide spare parts for the U.S. Navy‘s CH-53K King Stallion helicopters. The service ordered 866 interim spare parts needed to repair and maintain lot 2 CH-53K low-rate initial production units, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur through January 2021 in Connecticut, Washington, Wisconsin, Canada and […] More
Lockheed Martin has awarded Cubic’s global defense segment a contract of an undisclosed value to build an air combat training system for the F-35 Lightning II program. Cubic said Thursday it will deliver more than 500 ACTS subsystems over the next four years as part of F-35 production lots 12 to 14. The system will incorporate the P5 ground software […] More
Northrop Grumman demonstrated seabed warfare systems and the multidomain integration of unmanned platforms during a three-day exhibition of potential U.S. Navy technologies held last month in Newport, R.I. The company said Wednesday it launched sonobuoys from an autonomous Fire Scout surrogate helicopter and deployed micro synthetic aperture sonar on a man-portable unmanned underwater vehicle as part of the 2018 Advanced Naval […] More
