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The Professional Services Council has appointed new members and re-elected several executives to its 2018 executive committee and board of directors. Carey Smith, president of Parsons’ federal business unit, was re-elected secretary of the board of directors during the trade group’s annual meeting held Thursday, PSC said Monday. Smith will join Ken Asbury, president and […] More
Andy Green, president of technical solutions division at Huntington Ingalls Industries, has been elected to the Professional Services Council’s board of directors. Green is one of the 11 newly elected members who will serve three-year terms on the trade group’s board starting Jan. 1, PSC said Monday. He will work with other new and re-elected […] More
Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, has been appointed as a member of the Professional Services Council’s board of directors. PSC said Monday Niggel is one of 11 newly-elected members who will each serve a three-year term on the council’s board effective Jan. 1. He will collaborate with other board members to provide policy […] More
Al Thompson, deputy to the president for operations and external relations at KBR‘s government services business, will join the Professional Services Council’s board of directors effective Jan. 1. Thompson is among the 11 new members who have been elected to serve on the PSC board for a term of up to three years, the council announced […] More
George Wilson, president and CEO of ECS Federal, has been elected to the Professional Services Council’s board of directors. Wilson is one of 11 newly elected member-company executives who will each serve a three-year term on the council’s board effective Jan. 1, PSC said Monday. He will work with other new and re-elected board and executive committee members […] More
Leidos has been featured in Newsweek’s annual list of 500 U.S. publicly traded companies that have demonstrated efforts to help protect the environment. The company said Tuesday it landed the 38th spot on the 2017 Green Rankings and received the “greenest company” designation in the information and technology category. Newsweek ranked companies based on their initiatives to preserve […] More
A littoral combat ship that Lockheed Martin developed with partner Fincantieri Marinette Marine has entered into active service with the U.S. Navy. The Navy conducted the commissioning ceremony for the USS Little Rock vessel designated LCS 9 on the Buffalo River in New York, Lockheed said Saturday. The ship, which was the second to be named after the […] More
Cobham‘s Trivent-Avant subsidiary has received a $45.5 million contract to deliver fabrication, test, upgrade, engineering and related training services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s ultra high frequency satellite communication antenna system. The Defense Department said Friday the services will be applied to the SATCOM system’s components and variants including small ship variants of the system, Mobile User […] More
NASA has begun to integrate and test equipment for a mission that will transition operations from the use of radio to laser communications at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The space agency said Saturday the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration mission aims to boost the connection between astronauts and spacecraft at 10 to 100 times […] More
Lockheed Martin has fully integrated a Harris-built satellite navigation payload on the fourth U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System III Space Vehicle slated for launch in 2018. Harris said Friday the navigation payloads for GPS III SV02, SV03 and SV04 have been fully integrated while the fifth payload for SV05 currently undergoes environmental testing. The satellite navigation payload […] More
Leidos has received a potential three-year, $43.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a hull structure for the construction of a second autonomous vessel. The company will develop the Sea Hunter II-Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel Hull Number 2 under the cost-plus-fixed fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work is expected to be completed […] More
Maxar Technologies‘ MDA business has received four contracts worth a combined $41.7 million to help the Canadian space agency develop space exploration technology platforms. MDA said Friday it will build tools designed to simplify operations and reduce operator communication load for the Mobile Servicing System currently on board the International Space Station under two contract modifications from […] More
