Erickson has been awarded a two-year contract with NATO’s support and procurement agency to continue the company’s aerial firefighting work for Greece’s national firefighting agency. The company will produce three S64 Aircranes to suppress wildfire across all regions of Greece under the contract extension, Erickson said Wednesday. “We are privileged to support NATO and the Hellenic […] More

HII’s information technology consulting firm, in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard, has obtained a three-year authority to operate status for the service branch’s integrated data environment program. The company said Monday that Enlighten and the USCG have bolstered the SURVEYOR IDE to ensure the protection of sensitive Coast Guard operational data as well as enable streamlined data management and faster access to critical information.

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CyberSheath Services International has received an investment from Lightview Capital and will use it to expand its client base and service offerings for the defense supply chain and seek acquisition opportunities to support expansion efforts. “Lightview’s investment is validation of the federal government’s commitment to enforcing mandatory cybersecurity minimums for defense contractors,” CyberSheath CEO Eric […] More

Lockheed Martin’s space business hired 2,700 employees and 700 interns in 2020 and executives discussed in an interview about the company’s college hiring and other recruitment initiatives amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Nick Spain, vice president for human resources at Lockheed Martin Space, said the company partners with universities, including minority-serving institutions and historically Black colleges and universities, to recruit potential candidates.

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Benji Hutchinson, president of NEC Corp.'s U.S. federal government arm, has been appointed to lead the Security Industry Association's identity and biometric technology advisory board as chair while Jim Black, a director at Microsoft, will serve as its vice chair.

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Mike Fox, director of production operations for integrated fighter group programs at at Lockheed Martin, has been appointed as the company’s general manager and site director in Greenville, S.C., GSABusiness reported Wednesday. His appointment takes effect Sept. 4 and he will oversee a 500-employee facility built to produce, modify and sustain nose-to-tail aircraft, as well as supervise the establishment […] More

Lockheed Martin offered some South Carolina legislators a tour of the company’s facility in Greenville and provided them an update on two aircraft programs during their visit Monday. The company said Wednesday state officials and congressional staff toured the T-50A Final Assembly and Checkout facility and Ground Based Training Systems center. T-50A is Lockheed and Korea Aerospace Industries‘ joint […] More

Visualant and Intellicheck Mobilisa have signed an agreement for the latter company to have exclusive rights to the former’s patented ChromaID platform. Visualant said Thursday that the ChromaID approach aims to help Intellicheck update its products with photonic technology for threat detection and document verification purposes. ChromaID works to detect machine-readable chromatic identifiers with the use of Visualant’s developed Spectral Pattern Matching technology. Ron […] More

John Lambeth is chief information officer at PAE, where he oversees the company’s information technology strategy, IT support delivery and corporate application development operations. Before PAE, he worked at QinetiQ North America as CIO and managed the firm’s process quality training and management team and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program cloud practice. The […] More

Imaging scanners developer Redlen Technologies has raised $5.5 million in private funding from investors, including Pangaea Ventures and In-Q-Tel. The financing round is meant to help Redlen further develop cadmium zinc telluride-based radiation detectors for security and medical applications, Redlen said Thursday. Redlen is developing CZT semiconductor technology to aid computed tomography, bone density scans, […] More

Raytheon and WGBH have launched a new portfolio of science, technology, engineering and math resources for K-12 educators in recognition of National Engineers Week. The “Teaching NGSS Engineering Design Through Media” is available through the PBS LearningMedia yo engage and inspire students in K-12 classrooms, Raytheon announced Friday. “By working with WGBH and PBS LearningMedia […] More