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Douglas Lopez, formerly head of Engineering Services Network‘s fleet support services division, will take the role of chief operating officer and work from the company’s offices in Chesapeake, Virginia. ESN said Thursday Lopez has experience working with the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, the Military Sealift Command and U.S. Navy Echelon II and III fleet commanders. Lopez served with […] More
Northrop Grumman’s electronic systems unit in Linthicum, Maryland, has secured the Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 5 rating in recognition of the facility’s performance in software and firmware development. The CMMI Maturity Level 5 appraisal from Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute suggests the level of performance Northrop’s electronic systems division shows to continuously enhance […] More
NetScout Systems’ line of service assurance applications has received certification from the Defense Information Systems Agency after the products met the information assurance and interoperability requirements of the Defense Department for inclusion in the Unified Capabilities Approved Products List. The company said Wednesday its nGeniusONE Unified Performance Management and nGeniusONE InfiniStream platforms also secured Common Criteria […] More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected Exelis to become a Weather-Ready Nation ambassador to help promote readiness against severe weather conditions and climate change-related disasters. Exelis said Thursday it will leverage its Helios digital platform to validate ground weather conditions in real-time as part of its participation in the NOAA initiative. Helios is […] More
Raytheon has been awarded a $77 million contract to upgrade weather data systems and information display technologies for the Federal Aviation Administration as part of the NextGen Weather Processor platform. Under the contract, Raytheon will equip the backend program used for weather prediction with advanced processing and 4D modeling capabilities for use by aviation professionals […] More
The Federal Aviation Administration has teamed up with PrecisionHawk, BNSF Railway and CNN to expand the use of unmanned aircraft systems for operations in populated, rural and remote areas. The FAA will work with CNN to test if drones can be used in newsgathering activities in urban areas, the agency announced Wednesday at the Unmanned Systems […] More
Parsons has secured a $310 million contract with the Chicago Department of Aviation to upgrade the automated transit system at O’Hare International Airport. Under the design-build agreement, Parsons will extend the ATS tracks by 2,000 feet to accommodate a car rental facility as well as perform replacement work on the existing system that links the airport’s four terminals, […] More
Airbus Group Inc. — the European conglomerate’s U.S. subsidiary — has signed a partnership agreement with Nexa Capital Partners to explore strategies to commercialize unmanned aerial systems. The alliance’s goal is to identify methods for the commercial aviation industry to use UAS technology to increase operational efficiency and airspace access, Airbus said Wednesday. “The employment […] More
Woolpert has expanded its partnership with Altavian, the Ohio/Indiana Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center and Test Complex and Sinclair College’s National UAS Training and Certification Center to facilitate the development of UAS for commercial operations in Ohio. Under the agreement, the four organizations will work to advance the use of UAS in agriculture, resource management, airborne […] More
NASA will seek to build on its materials science research efforts with a flight of the Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space experiment on a Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft owned by the U.S. Air Force. The space agency said Wednesday the experiment will expose 100 quarter-size materials samples, including polymers and composites, to the space environment at the International Space Station for […] More
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has completed a series of flight tests for a sense and avoid (SAA) software onboard a Global Hawk-like Learjet aircraft as part of the Multiple Intruder Autonomous Avoidance platform led by Northrop Grumman. Northrop said Wednesday the Defense Department’s Multiple Sensor Integrated Conflict Avoidance software is designed to help unmanned […] More
The U.S. government could soon sell as many as 40 of Boeing‘s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets to Kuwait as production of the aircraft for the U.S. Navy and Australia nears its end in 2017, Defense News reported Wednesday. Christopher Cavas writes the deal could be worth at least $3 billion. Defense News reports the House Armed Services Committee allotted $1.2 billion […] More
