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Marshall Smith, formerly vice president of exploration at Voyager Space, has been named chief technology officer of the Denver, Colorado-based space exploration company. He will serve as a member of the board of directors at Starlab Space, a planned joint venture between Voyager and Airbus, and advise the team on the development and operations of […] More
Chris Scott joined Cherokee Federal in 2017 as director of business development and has since ascended the ranks to his current position as vice president of defense markets. In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, Scott highlighted Cherokee Federal’s core values and explored the ways in which these beliefs intersect with talent acquisition and retention, collaboration and the pursuit of contract wins.
Engineering and project management contractor Amentum ended 2023 with a number of notable accomplishments. Its team is particularly excited about the establishment of a technology council composed of the organization’s foremost technical minds. “The Council is the connective tissue for technology across Amentum,” Vice President of Technology Innovation Seth Eaton told ExecutiveBiz.
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Leidos' Advanced Multilayered Mobile Force Protection technology was able to track and identify all threats despite clutter in a demonstration of its counter – small unmanned aerial system. The company announced Monday that it achieved its objectives in a simulation conducted in partnership with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center.
Lockheed Martin handed over the first C-130J-30 Super Hercules military transport aircraft to the Georgia Air National Guard during a ceremony held Monday. The 165th Airlift Wing in Savannah, Georgia, is set to receive a total of eight Super Hercules aircraft to support tactical and strategic airlift mission requirements, the company said Monday.
Peraton will relocate its West Lafayette Research and Innovation Center from its current location in West Lafayette, Indiana, to a new space at the Purdue Applied Research Institute to expand research in support of national security missions. Chris Valentino, chief innovation officer at Peraton, heads the center, which operates under the Peraton Strategic Innovation Group to carry out applied research and development in areas such as cyber, quantum technologies, network virtualization and critical infrastructure protection, Peraton said Monday.
The National Armaments Consortium and ACMI Federal are partnering with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division to advance the production of critical chemicals and energetic materials in the U.S. through a collaborative research and development agreement. Under the CRADA, NAC said Monday the team will develop innovative small-scale pilot processing methods and solid propulsion technologies for the U.S. Navy and Department of Defense.
The government solutions business of open architecture drone software developer Auterion will provide U.S. Customs and Border Protection with additional unmanned vertical take-off and landing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems under the Commercial Solutions Opening Pilot Program. Auterion Government Solutions said Friday that it had already delivered an initial batch of unmanned ISR systems to CBP in 2023 for operational evaluation and assessment as part of CSOP and that the new systems are to be delivered as part of an option under the same program, which CBP exercised following a successful pilot testing.
Sierra Space has built and tested a full-scale version of an inflatable structure at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as part of its efforts to develop commercial space stations. The company said Monday the ultimate burst pressure test was focused on the Large Integrated Flexible Environment habitat's restraint layer developed in partnership with ILC Dover.
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Leonid Capital Partners has made an investment in EMPEQ, the developer of a platform that works to identify military equipment parts and defective components using computer vision and artificial intelligence. Leonid said Monday that the funding facility aligns with EMPEQ's Air Force Direct to Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research contract.
Navy Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Operational Energy has selected the planning software offered by Arlington, Virginia-based Decision Lens to improve the collection of requirements, prioritization and the allocation of resources. Decision Lens said Friday that its planning software, which is already being used by various other U.S. Navy customers, will help RDT&E OE with resource prioritization by making decision-making more agile and data-driven.
ManTech has established a new business unit dedicated to data and artificial intelligence. The Data Analytics and AI Solutions Practice will be headed by Vice President Brandy Durham and will provide federal agencies with consulting, engineering services and technology accelerators in these areas, the Herndon, Virginia-based company announced on Monday.
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