ExecutiveBiz News on Video 12/12/2022

Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, has secured a task order worth at least $97.2 million to provide NASA with a next-generation astronaut spacesuit for use outside the International Space Station. The task order covers the spacewalking system’s development, critical design review and demonstration on Earth in a simulated space environment, NASA said Friday. […]

Stephen Fogarty, a retired lieutenant general who formerly led the U.S. Army Cyber Command, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton to serve as a senior executive adviser and help drive growth of the company’s national cyber capabilities. In this role, Fogarty will leverage his experience with cyber, intelligence and information technology to assist in the oversight of the […]

Bruce Brooke, an 18-year veteran of Northrop Grumman, has been appointed chief growth officer at Washington, D.C.-based information technology and cybersecurity services provider FWG Solutions, according to a LinkedIn post published Sunday. He brings three decades of industry experience to the Small Business Administration-certified 8(a) contractor and will be responsible for helping drive the company’s market footprint expansion […]

NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft returned to Earth and made a parachute-assisted splashdown on Sunday in the Pacific Ocean after 25.5 days of traveling around the moon as part of the Artemis I mission. Artemis I is an unmanned flight test that took off on Nov. 16 from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in […]

James Lackey, senior vice president of the mission solutions sector at Parsons, was featured in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He discussed his transition from his three-decade career in the government to serving in the industry and what attracted him to the role at Parsons. The Q&A also tackled the company’s culture and […]

The Department of Defense has rolled out updates on its “one-stop-shop” website for visitors from industry and academia to learn how their organizations can help DOD innovate. The Innovation Pathways site is designed with three sections meant to help businesses, students and educational institutions and DOD personnel view information about opportunities to work with defense […]

Arqit has fielded its QuantumCloud platform on an Amazon Web Services offering as part of efforts to bring its encryption keys generation tool to a larger group of customers. The deployment of QuantumCloud on Amazon Simple Storage Service will make the cloud-based encryption service available to AWS customers and enable Arqit to support its clients’ […]

The National Science Foundation, through a newly-established $20 million program, will provide a number of institutions with training and networking support to encourage inclusivity and expand its regional innovation ecosystems.  The Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity or EPIIC initiative will target minority-serving institutions, two-year institutions and primarily undergraduate institutions to participate in virtual and […]

Leonardo DRS‘ network and imagining systems business will handle combat network system assessment and other related activities for the U.S. Army under a $26.7 million firm-fixed-price contract. DRS Network & Imaging Systems was tapped for the reconfiguration, installation, integration and testing of a combat network system in support of the service branch, the Department of […]

The U.S. Marine Corps received a prototype of the Cottonmouth advanced reconnaissance vehicle that a Textron unit designed to support the service branch’s Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle program.  Textron Systems made the delivery on Dec. 1 at the Nevada Automotive Test Center in Silver Springs, Nevada, the company said Thursday.  Cottonmouth provides lightweight multi-modal capacity and […]