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NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted gullies on the Red Planet by using a high-resolution imaging science experiment camera that is built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. U.S. scientists examined images captured by the spacecraft’s HiRISE optical system and found that Martian gully formations occurred during seasonal carbon dioxide freezing, NASA said Thursday. “As […] More
ICF International won a five-year, $24 million contract to provide an undisclosed U.S. utility company with program management services centered on habitat restoration following the client’s construction of an electrical transmission line. The company said Thursday it will help restore lands that could have been disturbed during the transmission line’s construction in compliance with environmental regulations. Ted Lee, an ICF vice president, said […] More
Lockheed Martin will mentor Lewis Innovative Technologies on administrative support, training and technology transfer operations with the goal of helping the woman-owned small company grow its business. Jeff MacBride, small business program manager at Lockheed’s mission systems and training division, said Thursday the U.S. Army and Defense Department will access Lewis Innovative Technologies’ system security portfolio through […] More
Raytheon will manufacture 84 command post terminals for the U.S. Air Force to use advanced-extremely high-frequency satellite communications, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday. Stew Magnuson writes that Raytheon will build the service’s Family of Advanced Beyond Line of Sight Terminals under a $298 million contract. The A-EHF satcom constellation is built to avoid jamming and secure military communications in […] More
Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More
Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System instrument built by Northrop Grumman for integration into the Joint Polar Satellite System beginning later this year. Ball Aerospace said Thursday that CERES will help JPSS-1 support the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership‘s weather and climate measurement missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CERES is designed to measure thermal radiation and […] More
An SCRA-managed naval center of excellence has partnered with General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries to explore new technologies to help improve manufacturing processes at U.S. shipyards. The Center for Naval Shipbuilding Technology in South Carolina and General Dynamics’s Electric Boat subsidiary are studying the potential of new measurement tools to aid submarine construction, SCRA said […] More
Gary McArthur, chief financial officer at Harris Corp. since 2006, will join engineering and construction consulting firm CH2M HILL as executive vice president and chief financial officer on Aug. 4. JoAnn Shea, acting CFO at CH2M HILL since February 13, will return to her full-time positions as chief accounting officer and controller, the firm said Wednesday. McArthur, a 25-year […] More
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Kathryn Sullivan will discuss economic and technological trends in the geographic information system industry at Esri‘s User Conference next week. Esri said Wednesday that Pritzker will focus on the administration’s efforts to drive economic potential and information transparency through adoption of open data. Sullivan, who is also commerce undersecretary for […] More
Sean McCormack, Anne Toulouse and Brian Ames have moved to senior leadership positions within the communications organization of Boeing. Boeing appointed McCormack as vice president of communications for its commercial airplanes business, with responsibility in media relations, employee and executive communications and advertising and marketing communications, Boeing said Friday. McCormack, Boeing’s corporate VP of communications […] More
A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has chosen North Atlantic Industries to produce flight control equipment for a vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aerial system. NAI will manufacture a navigation technology for the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System that is being built by Lockheed’s Skunk Works arm for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, NAI said Thursday. “ARES seeks to demonstrate several key […] More
Lockheed Martin has scheduled the delivery the third Mobile User Objective System satellite to the U.S. Navy for 2014 following the completion of environmental testing. The MUOS satellite went through simulated hot and cold temperature testing in a vacuum at Lockheed’s Dual Entry Large Thermal Altitude chamber, Lockheed said Thursday. “We are committed to quality, and our […] More
