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Philip Bilden, a former military intelligence officer and co-founding member of private equity firm HarbourVest Partners, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ board of directors. HII said Monday Bilden has held senior leadership roles during his 25-year career at HarbourVest that includes time at the company’s offices in Boston and Hong Kong where he established its Asian subsidiary. […] More
The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory has selected Yates Electrospace Corp.‘s Silent Arrow autonomous cargo aircraft to take part in a 12-month flight test effort. The company said Monday its engineers and test pilots will build and operate 10 Silent Arrow unmanned aerial systems that weigh between 500 pounds to 1,000 pounds. MCWL seeks to evaluate […] More
Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO at Raytheon, has said nation states, cyber criminals and “hacktivists” pose a threat to infrastructure, businesses, individuals and national defense, The Financial News and Daily Record reported Friday. Kennedy noted at the Davis Leadership Forum at Jacksonville University in Florida that current cybersecurity vulnerabilities exist in more than information technology […] More
Marty Williams, technology vice president of digital government services provider NIC, has said government agencies could address the need for citizen-centric digital services through a “product and platform” delivery approach. Williams wrote in an article published Thursday on GCN that a product and platform mindset allows information technology teams to continuously deploy microservices within a platform […] More
Peter Hadinger, president of Inmarsat‘s U.S. government business unit, has said that ongoing military operations require an improved acquisition model for satellite communications and further integration of commercial satcom systems. Hadinger stated during a presentation at the Global MilSatCom 2017 event in London that military satcom challenges stem from budget, acquisition and cultural issues instead of technological capabilities, Inmarsat said Friday. […] More
NASA will evaluate SpaceX‘s potential reuse of a previously-deployed first stage launch vehicle on a future mission to the International Space Station, Space News reported Saturday. Dan Hartman, ISS deputy program manager, said during a press conference at the space agency’s Wallops Flight Facility that the agency currently performs a review on the Falcon 9‘s use […] More
Leonardo has inked a contract with the U.K. ministry of defense to deliver equipment that can help simulate radar threats to the U.K. air force’s A400M transport aircraft prior to launch. The company said Sunday the simulations will help commanders implement defensive aids suites that can help the A400M aircraft function properly during its flight […] More
Lt. Gen. Michael Hood, commander of the Canadian air force, has said he wants to speed up the purchase of new fighter aircraft to replace Canada’s fleet of F/A-18 Hornet jets, Defense News reported Saturday. Hood told the publication that Canada currently plans to release a request for proposals by 2019 for 88 fighter jets that will replace […] More
Data security company Enveil has raised $4 million in strategic funding from investors such as Thomson Reuters and an affiliate of the USAA group of financial services companies. Enveil said Thursday it will use the money to update the firm’s technology, grow operations and execute a go-to-market strategy to increase the availability of its Never Decrypt data security […] More
The Defense Information Systems Agency and the U.S. Army have partnered with companies to integrate commercial cloud technology into mobile devices in efforts to increase data accessibility and security for warfighters, Defense Systems reported Friday. Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn, director of DISA, told Defense Systems the agency seeks to extend the U.S. military’s Secret Internet Protocol Router […] More
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program office has published a request for information to gather industry feedback on the U.S. government’s process to buy cloud technology platforms and inclusion of security requirements in contract language. FedRAMP said Thursday it partnered with the General Services Administration‘s Secure Cloud Portfolio team to explore strategies to standardize language in commercial cloud contracts […] More
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received an initial contract to manufacture a prototype steam generator technology for NuScale Power at the CTC-operated Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing. NuScale said Wednesday CTC will produce helical coil steam generators that serve as a key component of the Fluor-backed venture’s small modular reactor nuclear design under certification review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “We […] More
