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  • Orbital ATK Puts Aircraft Protection System to Live-Fire Test; Mike Kahn Comments
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    Orbital ATK Puts Aircraft Protection System to Live-Fire Test; Mike Kahn Comments

    Orbital ATK has demonstrated an airborne technology designed to guide kill vehicles to protect helicopters from incoming rocket-propelled grenades. During live-fire testing, the Helicopter Active Protection System kill vehicle launched from an ALE-47 countermeasures dispenser, performed off-axis aerial maneuvers and headed to a simulated detonation point, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. The test also sought to […] More

  • MapR Hadoop Training Program Seeks to Build Up Federal Contractor IT Workforce Skills
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    MapR Hadoop Training Program Seeks to Build Up Federal Contractor IT Workforce Skills

    A new free training program from MapR Technologies launched in January for information technology administrators, developers and data analysts to obtain certifications for data distribution platform Apache Hadoop. This program aims to help alleviate a skills shortage in the federal contracting arena, a public sector leader at MapR says. Tom White, a senior director of business development at […] More

  • ADS Taps Exelis to Build US Army Connectivity Systems; Nick Bobay Comments
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    ADS Taps Exelis to Build US Army Connectivity Systems; Nick Bobay Comments

    Exelis (NYSE: XLS) has received a $7.6 million contract from ADS to build mission command on-the-move systems for the U.S. Army. The company will complete delivery of its global network on-the-move-active distribution system comprising of ground station satellite hubs, training and installation services and satellite services to the client by March, Exelis said Monday. Based on an […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Eyes Military Readiness Support Under Navy MPTE Prime Contract
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Eyes Military Readiness Support Under Navy MPTE Prime Contract

    CACI International has landed prime position on a potential $40.7 million contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Navy‘s manpower, personnel, training and education programs. The company said Monday it can compete for up to $23 million of analysis, consulting and modeling work in support of the deputy chief of naval operations for MPTE (N1). Ken Asbury, […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary to Expand ATC Communications Coverage in South Korea
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    Northrop Subsidiary to Expand ATC Communications Coverage in South Korea

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary in the U.K. will expand the air traffic communication system of the Incheon air traffic control center under a contract with the South Korean ministry of land, infrastructure and transport. The company said Friday that Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems will provide six additional sites to the current Incheon area control center infrastructure to support ground-to-air communications. “We […] More

  • Gary May Joins Leidos’ Board of Directors; John Jumper Comments
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    Gary May Joins Leidos’ Board of Directors; John Jumper Comments

    Gary May, dean of the college of engineering at Georgia Tech, has joined Leidos’ board of directors. He chaired the university’s school of electrical and computer engineering from 2005 to 2011 and served as executive assistant to Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough between 2002 and 2005 prior to his current role, Leidos said Monday. John Jumper, […] More

  • Booz Allen’s Angie Messer to Discuss Security Workforce Trends at RSA Conference
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    Booz Allen’s Angie Messer to Discuss Security Workforce Trends at RSA Conference

    Angie Messer, a Booz Allen Hamilton executive vice president and an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 list for 2015, will take part in a panel discussion on trends shaping the information security workforce at this year’s RSA Conference. Messer and other panelists are scheduled to discuss results from an (ISC)2 Foundation-commissioned global information security workforce […] More

  • CACI Vet Deb Dunie Appointed to SAIC’s Board of Directors; Edward Sanderson Comments
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    CACI Vet Deb Dunie Appointed to SAIC’s Board of Directors; Edward Sanderson Comments

    Deborah “Deb” Dunie, formerly executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International, for eight years, has been appointed to the board of directors at Science Applications International Corp. She will serve on the human resources and compensation committee of the company’s board, SAIC said Monday. “Deb Dunie has over three decades of aerospace and defense industry […] More

  • TCS Puts O3b Networks’ Satellite Services on GSA IT Schedule 70
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    TCS Puts O3b Networks’ Satellite Services on GSA IT Schedule 70

    TeleCommunication Systems has agreed to offer the satellite products and services of its channel partner O3b Networks to TCS’ government clients via the GSA IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. TCS said Monday O3b’s medium Earth-orbit constellation provides broadband satellite services with up to 1.6 Gbps data throughput and LTE support. O3b’s satellite products include satellite terminals, antennas, gateway equipment and block upconverters, while services include field service […] More

  • Bruce Tanner: Lockheed Eyes Int’l Sales Target of 25%
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    Bruce Tanner: Lockheed Eyes Int’l Sales Target of 25%

    Lockheed Martin wants its international sales to reach 25 percent of the company’s total revenue over the next few years in a move to mitigate the impact of shrinking defense spending, the Washington Post reported Friday. Bruce Tanner, Lockheed’s chief financial officer, told Post reporter Amrita Jayakumar that a majority of that revenue is tied to contracts the U.S. government […] More

  • Tom Watson: SAIC to Continue Engineering, Technical Support for SPAWAR
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    Tom Watson: SAIC to Continue Engineering, Technical Support for SPAWAR

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential three-year, $62 million task order to provide technical and engineering services to the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. SAIC said Monday it will provide support for SPAWAR’s office of chief engineer, program executive office for C4I systems, fleet readiness directorate and C4ISR programs. “This […] More