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  • Senate’s Sergeant-at-Arms Office Seeks Cyber Info Assurance Provider
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    Senate’s Sergeant-at-Arms Office Seeks Cyber Info Assurance Provider

    The U.S. Senate’s Office of the Sergeant at Arms is looking for a contractor to help secure enterprise data, information technology resources and network infrastructure in the legislative branch’s upper chamber. In a notice posted Monday on FedBizOpps, the Senate’s SSA office seeks a provider of  information assurance operations services that will complement activities at the Senate’s Cyber Threat and Intelligence Cell […] More

  • Ken Hunzeker: Vectrus to Extend Comms Support for U.S. Air Forces in Europe
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    Ken Hunzeker: Vectrus to Extend Comms Support for U.S. Air Forces in Europe

    A Vectrus subsidiary has secured a potential $12 million contract to provide command, control, communications and intelligence support services to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Vectrus Systems will support C3I operations at various unmanned and manned Air Force facilities located in the U.K., Belgium, Germany and Turkey as part of USAFE’s Enterprise Legacy Voice and Information System program, the company said Wednesday. The ELVIS contract, managed […] More

  • Unisys to Provide Private Cloud Platform to Support Washington State Agency Operations
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    Unisys to Provide Private Cloud Platform to Support Washington State Agency Operations

    Unisys has received a five-year, $20 million contract from Washington state’s Department of Social and Health Services to host the operations of the department’s divisions through a private cloud system. The company said Wednesday the required services primarily involve its ClearPath Forward cloud-based operations management platform, which will support DSHS operations from Unisys data centers in Eagan, Minnesota, and Salt Lake City, […] More

  • MDA to Supply Grapple Fixtures for Japan Space Robotic Arm, Experiment Module
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    MDA to Supply Grapple Fixtures for Japan Space Robotic Arm, Experiment Module

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a contract from Japan’s national space agency to provide grapple fixtures that will work to support connections between the Japanese Experiment Module support equipment and the JEM Robotic Manipulator System. MDA said Tuesday the grapple fixtures are designed to operate with JEMRMS and some of its payloads as the robotic arm supports the JEM […] More

  • DMI, USDA to Add Features for Food Safety & Inspection Service Agency Mobile App
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    DMI, USDA to Add Features for Food Safety & Inspection Service Agency Mobile App

    Bethesda, Maryland-based mobile services company Digital Management Inc. and the Agriculture Deparment will incorporate new features into an app operated by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. DMI said Wednesday it looks to release updates for The FoodKeeper mobile app in May and August to add hotline access, multi-lingual support, imperial or metric format measurement display, calendar of events updates, general cooking information, educational videos and […] More

  • Orbital ATK Massachusetts Facility Reaches 500-Mark in Large Composite Rocket Structure Production
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    Orbital ATK Massachusetts Facility Reaches 500-Mark in Large Composite Rocket Structure Production

    An Orbital ATK facility in Iuka, Massachusetts has reached the 500-unit production milestone for a large composite rocket structure the company makes for a Boeing–Lockheed Martin launch services joint venture. OA produced a boat tail structure –  the 68th of its product-line that includes heat shields and interstages – for the United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V launch vehicle, the company […] More

  • Al Hannum Named AECOM Environment Consulting Business Chief; Fred Werner Comments
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    Al Hannum Named AECOM Environment Consulting Business Chief; Fred Werner Comments

    Al Hannum, formerly director of operations for the environmental consulting business at AECOM, has been appointed chief executive of the company’s environment consulting business. Based in Philadelphia, Hannum will be responsible for the management, strategy and business operations for the company’s environmental consulting organization, AECOM said Wednesday. “We are fortunate to have Al lead our […] More

  • Michel Potvin Named Platform President of Esterline’s Canadian Avionics Systems Business
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    Michel Potvin Named Platform President of Esterline’s Canadian Avionics Systems Business

    Michel Potvin, vice president of corporate marketing and strategy at Esterline, has been appointed as platform president of Esterline’s avionics systems business in Montreal, Canada. He will succeed Greg Yeldon, who is due to step down in early May, and will manage the organization that offers avionics products and sales support services to the Canadian aerospace and defense sector, Esterline […] More

  • CACI’s Jack London Receives Tech Leadership Award From Navy League; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI’s Jack London Receives Tech Leadership Award From Navy League; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International Executive Chairman Jack London was given the Leadership in Technology Award on Tuesday by the Navy League of the United States New York Council. The association gave the award to London to honor his leadership of CACI and contributions to the country’s sea services, the company said Thursday. Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI and an inductee into Executive […] More

  • Lockheed Opens Ottawa Tech R&D, Demo Center; Rosemary Chapdelaine Comments
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    Lockheed Opens Ottawa Tech R&D, Demo Center; Rosemary Chapdelaine Comments

    Lockheed Martin has opened its demonstration center in Ottawa, Canada to help industry and academia in the country collaborate on research-and-development efforts for different types of technologies. The IMPACT Center will feature naval systems as its core focus to fulfill Canada’s Surface Combatant program requirements and respond to international demands, Lockheed said Tuesday. Rosemary Chapdelaine, vice president and […] More

  • Airbus to Expand Ashburn, Virginia Airplane Material Distribution Hub
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    Airbus to Expand Ashburn, Virginia Airplane Material Distribution Hub

    Global airplane maker and defense contractor Airbus will invest an additional $1 million toward a material distribution center the company operates in Ashburn, Virginia that will support a consolidated operations hub with the parent company’s Satair Group subsidiary. Airbus will also add more employees to the facility as the company works to fulfill orders of more than 2,800 Airbus aircraft for customers in the Latin America, North […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Sets Up “Superlift” Structure for Aircraft Carrier Construction; Mike Shawcross Comments
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    Huntington Ingalls Sets Up “Superlift” Structure for Aircraft Carrier Construction; Mike Shawcross Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has added a new structure designed to update the construction workflow on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at its Newport News Shipbuilding dry dock facility. HII’s 965-ton “superlift” will work to support the continued development of the U.S. Navy’s future John F. Kennedy carrier, which the company said Tuesday is currently 17 percent complete ahead of its scheduled launch in 2020. […] More