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Martin Homlish, formerly CEO of Omnicom Group’s AMP marketing agency, has joined the board of directors of Cray Inc. He will also serve on the board’s strategic technology assessment committee, Cray said Friday. Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray, said Homlish’s executive leadership and background will be valuable to the company as Cray continues […] More
The Ethisphere Institute has named Dell, Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Parsons to the research organization’s list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for 2015. This is the second time that Dell has earned the designation, the third for Concurrent Technologies and the sixth for Parsons. “I’m proud of our team’s ongoing commitment to engaging ethically […] More
Lockheed Martin executive Stephanie Hill, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 list for 2015, has said one of her goals is to raise awareness of the benefits of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education among young people, The Daily Record reported Monday. Hill, vice president and general manager of Lockheed’s information systems and global […] More
Exelis has been contracted to deploy its airfield monitoring and surveillance suite at the Los Angeles International Airport as part of a LAX initiative to improve safety and efficiency at the facility. The package will include the McLean, Virginia-based company’s Vehicle Movement Area Transponder, Symphony MobileVue and NextVue platforms, Exelis said Monday. VMAT provides operations, […] More
Cubic‘s global defense business has secured a $2.6 million supplemental contract to provide the Italian army with training services that work to deliver realistic combat scenarios. The company said Monday it will integrate elements such as tanks, missiles, targets, terrain and simulation of chemical warfare to help bolster realism and efficiency in training. “Cubic is proud to […] More
A Raytheon–Teldat alliance has wrapped up the design assessment on a militarized router technology for Patriot air and missile defense weapons. Raytheon said Monday that Teldat is set to enter the manufacturing and design certification phase under the companies’ Patriot router development partnership. “Teldat has demonstrated exemplary technical capabilities in support of this key initiative,” […] More
A fresh Research and Markets report forecasts that demand for cloud-based security services will propel the global aviation cybersecurity market to a compound annual growth rate of 5.94 percent from 2014 through 2019. Research and Markets said Friday end-users are turning to cloud-based security services due to ease of management. “Cyber threats are a major concern […] More
Exelis has been selected to implement its predeparture sequence planner at Singapore’s Changi Airport in a move to help the international hub achieve gate pushback times for departing aircraft. Frank Koehne, managing director of Exelis Orthogon, said Friday the Osyris predeparture sequence planner is designed to minimize aircraft queue lengths and taxiing time in order to […] More
A new report by IHSÂ indicates that the global defense market saw increased trading activity for the sixth consecutive year, a 13.4 percent growth rate from $56.8 billion in 2013 to $64.4 billion in 2014. “This record figure has been driven by unparalleled demand from the emerging economies for military aircraft and an escalation of regional […] More
NASA and Orbital ATK confirmed that the Dawn probe has made it into orbit around the Ceres dwarf planet after a 7.5-year journey. Ceres’ gravity captured the Orbital ATK-built spacecraft Friday at 4:39 a.m. Pacific time, NASA said Friday. Dawn took off in September 2007 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and initially encountered Vesta, orbiting the […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s engineering and production technology projects have received three manufacturing awards from Frost & Sullivan’s Manufacturing Leadership Council. Orlando Carvalho, executive vice president for Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics business, said Thursday the technology uses “state of the art tools†in order to boost quality and assembly efficiency. “We are honored to be recognized as a leader in […] More
Susan Keys started the current chapter of her GovCon and information technology career last year when she took a vice president role at Avaya‘s federal business organization — Avaya Government Solutions. Her career includes stops at commercial and GovCon firms such as Cisco, Lockheed Martin, Oracle and more recently Riverbed Technology. Keys recently caught up with […] More
