ExecutiveBiz News on Video 7/18/2022

The State Department has given the government of South Korea the green light to buy from the U.S. government MK 54 lightweight torpedoes for use on its MH-60R aircraft through a potential $130 million foreign military sales agreement. The FMS transaction also includes Recoverable Exercise Torpedo, air launch accessories for rotary wing, storage and issue […]

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the service branch is “not all that far away” when it comes to the final downselect process for the sixth-generation fighter aircraft as part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, Breaking Defense reported Sunday. “It’s not imminent but it’s not all that far away,” Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award […]

Boeing and the U.S. Navy have jointly demonstrated the ability of a Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet jet to connect with and control three unmanned aerial vehicles. Company engineers, within six months, developed, installed and tested new software loads of the aircraft’s Distributed Targeting Processor – Networked, which transmitted commands to the UAVs via a […]

Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works has unveiled a manned-unmanned teaming concept aimed at helping the U.S. Air Force team up its piloted fighters with future autonomous systems, Defense News reported Friday. John Clark, vice president and general manager of Skunk Works, said the company proposes a distributed teaming concept wherein a diverse group of uncrewed systems […]

Curtiss-Wright announced on Monday that the corporation has received a contract from Airbus to provide custom electric actuation technology for the main deck cargo door on the future Airbus A350F freighter aircraft. “Curtiss-Wright is very proud to have been selected to provide our critical electric actuation technology expertise in support of the new A350F freighter, as […]

AT&T has partnered with charitable organization First H.E.L.P. to offer free mental health training for first responders throughout the U.S. First H.E.L.P said Friday the partnership aims to provide up to 15 emergency response personnel the chance to join activities that promote well-being through a weeklong break as part of the Mission Ready Retreats program. […]

SDV International has achieved Maturity Level 3 appraisal for its IT Solutions Group under ISACA’s Capability Maturity Model Integration program that underscored the company’s established and enhanced standard processes. The Alexandria, Virginia-based consultant said the CMMI ML3 appraisal is an indicator of a “well characterized and understood” set of organizational procedures. CMMI, meanwhile, is an […]

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is soliciting input on developing a consolidated platform that is meant to employ a DevSecOps approach to creating artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science technologies. In a call for information notice posted Friday, DTRA said its Digital Battlespace Management Division intends to build a platform for government program information sharing […]

Workday has been cleared under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to sell a cloud-based technology offering designed to help agencies manage human resources and financial functions.  The FedRAMP Moderate certification marks the enterprise management platform vendor’s entry into the federal landscape and signifies its compliance with government cloud security requirements, the company said […]