Intelligent Decisions Inc. has established a research and development office in Huntsville, Ala. to support Defense Department space and missile defense activities. ID said in an announcement Thursday it is providing communications equipment to an Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center laboratory in Huntsville under a multi-million dollar contract. The equipment is for [...]
Lockheed Martin has submitted its final proposal revision for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense Development and Sustainment Contract. The contract calls for support in the following areas: development, manufacturing, testing, training, performance-based logistics, operations and sustainment of the GMD element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. “The entire Lockheed Martin-Raytheon team has worked together as partners in [...]
Wyle’s Huntsville, Ala., operations have been updated with construction of a new drive in environmental test chamber. Vehicles such as Humvees, satellites, automobiles, energy equipment, bulldozers and others will be tested in chamber. “Wyle now has the largest test chamber outside a government facility in the southeast United States,” said Keith Wilson, vice president of [...]
QinetiQ North America announced it has received a contract award from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center in Huntsville, Ala. The five-year contract is worth $39.8 million and supports the center’s Architecture Characterization Program. QinetiQ will perform architecture definition, concept development, scenario development, constructive simulation and analysis, training and deployment, [...]
Last April, President Obama issued a challenge to corporations and individuals: It’s time to reinvigorate America’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educational enterprise. Looks like Walt Havenstein, SAIC’s new CEO, is picking up the torch. Just recently Havenstein told a paper in Huntsville, Ala., where SAIC employs 2,300: “STEM is a way of getting [...]
