Joe Czyzyk, chairman and CEO of air cargo services provider Mercury Air Group, has been named chairman of the nonprofit organization U.S. Vets. U.S. Vets said Monday Czyzyk joined the veteran-focused organization’s board of directors in 2012 and served with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam under the naval mobile construction battalion. “As a veteran of the U.S. […] More

An Orbital ATK-built unmanned spacecraft is scheduled to launch Thursday afternoon on a mission to deliver about 7,300 pounds of scientific payload and crew equipment to the International Space Station. NASA said Tuesday the Cygnus OA-4 spaceship will lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket Thursday at around 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. […] More

DRS Technologies and NASA have jointly developed a photon-counting mid-infrared detector that works to support remote-sensing applications in spaceflight and have been integrated into two new aircraft instruments. The space agency said Tuesday Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Xiaoli Sun worked with DRS to develop what NASA calls a “first-of-its-kind” detector, which is made of the mercury cadmium telluride alloy or HgCdTe. […] More

ICF International has released a fresh energy outlook report that forecasts prices, regulatory impact and future demands for gas, coal, renewable energy and power. The ICForecast Energy Outlook for the third quarter of 2014 projects a decline in gas prices over the next 18 months due to potential atmospheric factors during that period, ICF said […] More