ExecutiveBiz News on Video 11/28/2022

KBR has received a $69.2 million award that tasks the company with providing total lifecycle management of critical airborne manned reconnaissance aircraft systems in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane and the Naval Air Systems Command E-2/C-2 Airborne Command and Control Program Office. The Houston, Texas-based company said Monday that the task order, […]

Jay Humphlett, a former executive at Dataminr, has assumed leadership of the public sector business arm of San Jose, California-headquartered cybersecurity software developer ColorTokens.  In his role as president, Humphlett will aim to expand the company’s footprint in the global public sector market through its service offerings, he announced via a LinkedIn post on Monday.  […]

Northrop Grumman demonstrated the capability of the Integrated Battle Command System to work with a networked sensor and effector during two live target tests at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. IBCS engaged a cruise missile target tracked by a Sentinel radar using the Lockheed Martin-built Remote Interceptor Guidance prototype, RIG-360, during the first […]

Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary has finished conducting a critical design review of Space Systems Command’s Missile Track Custody mission payload. Jason Kim, CEO of Millennium Space Systems, said in a statement published Wednesday the company has developed a system and digital model designed to help the customer track hypersonic glide vehicles and other modern […]

L3Harris Technologies‘ communications systems business will provide 1,300 new ground-based radios to the British army under a contract valued at approximately $109 million. The company will aim to complete the delivery of initial portable Multi-Mode Radio systems before the end of 2022, the U.K. government said Friday. MMR devices are designed to support military ground-to-ground […]

Government information technology service provider Carahsoft Technology was awarded a contract modification worth $32.6 million to continue handling software support and maintenance work for the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems.  Work will be conducted in Reston, Virginia, and is estimated to conclude by Nov. 30, 2026, the Department of Defense said Wednesday […]

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the development of an aircraft capable of sustained seaborne strategic and tactical lift. The Defense Department said Friday the $8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract award is in support of DARPA’s Liberty Lifter program. The program’s focus is on designing, building and […]

Boeing and NASA conducted a field test to determine the carbon emission rate from using sustainable fuel blends on the 2022 ecoDemonstrator aircraft powered by 26-year-old Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines. NASA said the study advances a goal similar with Boeing’s to adopt alternative fuels in order to reduce aerospace-related carbon footprint. Researchers compared the amount […]

The Air National Guard has recommended the deployment of the Leonardo-built BriteCloud 218 digitalcountermeasure technology to protect fourth-generation fighter aircraft from missile threats.  ANG issued a fielding recommendation following the completion of live trials and testing of the miniaturized, expandable active decoy on the Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft under the Office of Secretary […]

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has awarded a joint project by Volta and Imagen Energy a grant to commercialize a U.S.-manufactured direct current fast-charging equipment for electric vehicles.  Volta said Wednesday it will use its PredictEV infrastructure planning tool and software to help Imagen Energy select sites for effective piloting and initial […]