Sid Fuchs was brought on at ATS to serve as the COO, while Michael Chertoff joined the board at BAE Systems.
Raytheon named David Jensen VP, Communications for IIS and QGA hired Chris Brown to the position of director of digital strategy.
Also, iDirect promoted Chris Norem to CFO.
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California-based wireless technology provider Kumu Networks has received a $5 million contract from the Department of Defense to develop a self-interference cancellation tool in support of a 5G testing and experimentation program.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is using Amazon Web Services' cloud computing technology to process and host data from the Perseverance rover, which touched down Thursday on Mars to survey the red planet.
Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business will award a combined amount of $400,000 to academic partners for artificial intelligence development initiatives that will focus on augmenting military defense systems and continue through 2022. Southern Methodist University and Virginia Tech will receive $175,000 and $225,000, respectively, to develop AI and machine learning technologies applicable to military operations, Raytheon said Tuesday.
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