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  • Adobe Unveils Cloud Services for Gov’t Clients; John Landwehr Comments
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    Adobe Unveils Cloud Services for Gov’t Clients; John Landwehr Comments

    Adobe has introduced new cloud service offerings for government customers in an effort to help public sector organizations develop and deliver content and websites to citizens. The company unveiled the product at the Adobe digital government assembly, where the company also announced tools and resources designed to complement the offerings, Adobe said Tuesday. John Landwehr, Adobe’s public sector chief […] More

  • Matt McQueen on Northrop’s Gov’t Relations Teamwork With Execs and Stakeholder Definitions
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    Matt McQueen on Northrop’s Gov’t Relations Teamwork With Execs and Stakeholder Definitions

    At Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector, Matt McQueen acts as its main spokesperson and communications liason to external stakeholders as the sector’s director of strategic and external communications. McQueen’s career at Northrop prior to that role includes nearly a decade as director for the sector’s government and industry relations functions and more recently as the company’s government relations lead for all state […] More

  • Cisco: Mobile Apps Could Help Public Services Reach More People
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    Cisco: Mobile Apps Could Help Public Services Reach More People

    The public sector’s use of mobile applications continues to grow as U.S. and international government units eye increased use of those tools to support citizen services, Jason Deign wrote in a piece published Monday on the Cisco website. Deign writes that mobile apps work to grow service delivery to more citizens and enable “anytime, anywhere” access. “If you think about reaching the […] More

  • Mary Petryszyn: Northrop Begins Global Hawk Production for South Korea
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    Mary Petryszyn: Northrop Begins Global Hawk Production for South Korea

    Northrop Grumman will work with the U.S. Air Force and start production four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems under a foreign military sale contract with the South Korean air force. “[It is] the first time a Global Hawk has been sold to an allied nation in the Asia-Pacific region under the foreign military sales process,” Mary Petryszyn, international vice president […] More

  • Dynetics to Extend IT Support at NASA’s Marshall Space Center
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    Dynetics to Extend IT Support at NASA’s Marshall Space Center

    A Dynetics subsidiary has received a 12-month, $59.3 million contract extension to provide information technology services to NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center. The extension period will run from Feb. 1 to Jan. 31, 2016, and covers managerial and technical support at the space research facility, NASA said Friday. Dynetics Technical Services will continue to work with […] More

  • Northrop to Build 2 More LCS Mission Modules for Navy; Doug Shaffer Comments
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    Northrop to Build 2 More LCS Mission Modules for Navy; Doug Shaffer Comments

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $21.6 million contract to provide two additional modular mission packages for the military branch’s Littoral Combat Ship. Northrop said Monday the modules will be built to support LCS’ surface warfare and mine countermeasure operations. “As the mission package integrator for LCS we are committed to meeting the […] More

  • Lockheed, Orange County Public Schools Launch STEM Program
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    Lockheed, Orange County Public Schools Launch STEM Program

    Lockheed Martin, Orange County, Fla.’s public school district and a nonprofit organization have partnered to launch a new STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education program, Orlando Business Journal reported Monday. Matthew Richardson writes Lockheed is scheduled to announce the program on Thursday at Walker Middle School, Orlando, in partnership with Project Lead the Way. Project Lead the […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch to Present at Space Foundation Symposium
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch to Present at Space Foundation Symposium

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, will speak at a Space Foundation-hosted industry forum that will held this spring in Colorado. The 31st Space Symposium will take place at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs from April 13 to 16, Space Foundation said Wednesday. Cowen-Hirsch is slated to deliver […] More

  • Wayne Lucernoni on Harris’ ‘Organic Growth’ Approach for IT Services, Healthcare Market Trends
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    Wayne Lucernoni on Harris’ ‘Organic Growth’ Approach for IT Services, Healthcare Market Trends

    Wayne Lucernoni leads the information technology business of Harris Corp. as president out of the unit’s headquarters in Herndon, Va. Lucernoni, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2015, first joined the Melbourne, Fla.-based communications and technology contractor in 1990 and previously served as vice president and general manager for Harris’ intelligence, civil and healthcare programs. Lucernoni recently […] More

  • Professional Services Council Buys TechAmerica Foundation
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    Professional Services Council Buys TechAmerica Foundation

    The Professional Services Council purchased the TechAmerica Foundation from CompTIA in a deal that sees the foundation’s annual Vision Forecast and Conference and other initiatives continue under the auspices of the PSC. “As we evaluated our strategic direction, we recognized that the activities of the TechAmerica Foundation could be better served by an organization aligned to […] More

  • BAE to Build UAS Sensor for Navy Antisubmarine Warfare Program
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    BAE to Build UAS Sensor for Navy Antisubmarine Warfare Program

    BAE Systems is developing a sensor payload for unmanned aircraft systems that will help the U.S. Navy‘s Boeing-built P-8A Poseidon jet detect enemy submarines by monitoring disturbances in the magnetic field, Intelligent Aerospace reported Monday. John Keller writes the P-8A maritime patrol aircraft will use an air-launched UAS equipped with an antisubmarine warfare payload, including a magnetic anomaly detector, to pinpoint the location of submerged submarines, […] More