Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky business and Taqnia Aeronautics have formed a partnership to seek business opportunities in helicopter production in Saudi Arabia. Both companies outlined in their agreement the investment, technology and skills requirements for the production and assembly of S-70 Black Hawk helicopters in the country, Lockheed said Tuesday. “Entering into this agreement will give Taqnia […] More

The competition for new fighter jets to replace Canada’s CF-18 fleet faces a refresh as the Liberal party prepares to take over government on Nov. 4, Reuters reported Monday. Randall Palmer writes that incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ruled out the purchase of Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 and indicated plans to place savings onto naval ships. Other bids on […] More

Lockheed Martin and the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland have wrapped up their collaborative research of new methods to integrate manned and unmanned airborne technologies. The company said Friday it helped university researchers develop software during the Optimizing Unmanned System of Systems research project. The partnership sought to identify techniques to enable aircraft systems […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Weibel Scientific to design, build and test a doppler radar technology for helping military customers to defeat ballistic missile threats. The Gap-Filling Tracking Radar will be built to have precision tracking and discrimination features and to leverage NATO‘s European ballistic missile defense architecture, Lockheed said Monday. The companies formed their […] More

Matthew McCormack serves as chief technology officer at the global public sector business of EMC‘s security division RSA. In that capacity, McCormarck oversees RSA’s technical strategic programs and partnerships with government agencies and critical infrastructure operators globally. He joined RSA in July 2012 after service as chief information security officer at the U.S. Defense Intelligence […] More

Barbara Humpton became chief operating officer of Siemens Government Technologies — the German conglomerate’s U.S. federal subsidiary — in December 2014 after three years as head of business development for the organization. The 25-year GovCon sector veteran and senior vice president at SGT has been with the subsidiary since its start in 2011 and is also a veteran of Booz […] More

IBM has unveiled new software and services in support of its recent $3 billion investment to establish an Internet of Things line of business over the next four years. The company said Thursday the new offerings work to enable customers to manage the development and operations of connected devices via IoT. “The IoT is generating massive amounts of […] More

A new MarketsandMarkets forecast predicts the three-dimensional printing market will be worth $8.43 billion by 2020. The growth represents a compound annual rate of 14.37 percent between 2014 and 2020 across the aerospace, automotive, consumer, defense, healthcare, industrial, education and research sectors, MarketsandMarkets said Wednesday. MarketsandMarkets attributes the growth of 3D printing market in the Americas to initiatives the governments in the […] More

Boeing plans to bolster its footprint in the South African market by investing in areas such as flight training, aircraft parts manufacturing and biofuel production, defenceWeb reported Wednesday. “We want to further our presence in South Africa in a variety of ways: manufacturing, pilot training, defense, commercial,” said Miguel Santos, vice president for Boeing’s African […] More

(Editor’s note: this interview took place prior to ATK’s April announcement that the company would spinoff its sporting division into an independent company and merge its aerospace and defense businesses with Orbital Sciences. Click here to read GovCon Wire’s coverage of both transactions.) As senior vice president and chief information officer at ATK, Jeff Kubacki acts as the Arlington, […] More

Siemens will invest $1 billion in software grants for manufacturing programs in seven community colleges, universities and education centers in Virginia, giving students access to the same tools used in real-world factories around the world. “Manufacturing is the most sophisticated, forward-looking and innovative business function in the world today, and we need to let students, parents […] More

Siemens has donated nearly $660 million in software products to several Massachusetts-based technical colleges and universities to train students on product design and manufacturing. The in-kind software grant provides university students access to Siemens’ software applications that work to help users produce aerospace systems, medical devices, ships and consumer products, Siemens said Wednesday. Chuck Grindstaff, […] More