ExecutiveBiz News on Video 10/17/2022

Duane Andrews, former CEO of QinetiQ’s North American business arm, was presented with the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America’s 2009 Technology Good Scout Award in recognition of his drive to advance the technology sector while exemplifying the organization’s values. He worked as QinetiQ North America CEO from June 2006 to […]

Gary Harmon, executive vice president and general manager of Convergint Federal, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding how the company is advancing improvements into the contract bidding process for government contractors as well as how industry and the government can improve greater collaboration and innovative solutions during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. You can read the full interview with Gary Harmon below. […]

Christopher Eastman, who has been with Lockheed Martin for almost two decades now, was promoted to a director role focused on command, control, communications, computers, cyber-defense and combat systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance advanced concepts, according to a LinkedIn post on Saturday. Prior to the promotion, Eastman worked as senior manager for C6ISR advanced […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Collins Aerospace a three-year contract to design a lighter version of the F-16 fighter jet’s ventral fin with the use of thermoplastic welding technology. The project seeks to apply best practices from the development of an F-16 composite aircraft horizontal stabilizer and other similar efforts, the Raytheon Technologies […]

NASA awarded TBP&JJ Worldwide Services a potential five-year, $43 million contract to help NASA operate and maintain facilities at an Edwards, California-based aeronautical research center. The company is scheduled to commence support services for the Armstrong Flight Research Center under the firm-fixed-price, time-and-material contract on Dec. 1, the agency said Friday. Services will include repair, […]

The Actus procurement workflow automation platform of Paperless Innovations has complied with Level 2 requirements set by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 model. The updated cybersecurity framework was released in November 2021 to assess defense contractors’ capability to handle and safeguard Federal Contract Information and Controlled Unclassified Information, the company said. Level 2 compliance […]

BAE Systems will help sustain Australia’s fleet of Hobart-class destroyer ships under a six-year contract with an estimated value of $96 million. The company said Thursday it will act as the capability life cycle manager of the HMAS Hobart, HMAS Brisbane and HMAS Sydney at RAN’s Fleet Base East in Sydney. This award is a […]

Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered with defense technology provider Armaments Research Company to develop a 5G-powered weapons sensing and data sharing system for the U.S. military. The partnership under a previously awarded contract with Booz Allen will integrate data collected from weapon sensors into the company’s 5G-powered network in support of a Department of Defense […]

Amazon will equip its broadband satellites with laser communications terminals to enable the high-speed transfer of remote-sensing data to the Space Development Agency’s low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, SpaceNews reported Friday. SDA aims to use some satellites from Amazon’s Project Kuiper as translators between commercial remote-sensing companies and the Department of Defense’s Transport Layer, a mesh […]

The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum that establishes a maturity model to guide the implementation of event logging requirements with regard to cybersecurity incidents and Amazon Web Services outlined for federal customers the AWS services listed in the M-21-31 memo that require log data capture and storage at the EL1 level. “EL1 […]