Joe Carlin is a vice president for the Argon ST business within Boeing‘s electronic and mission systems division, which is a part of Boeing’s network and space systems business. Argon ST is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boeing that became part of the electronic and mission systems division in September 2011, when the division was founded. […] More

Northrop Grumman will bring one of its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planes to an international aerospace industry forum in Malaysia this week. The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye will be featured at the Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition between March 26 and 30, Northrop said Tuesday. Malaysia is one of the first countries the U.S. government […] More

  Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector has won a contract to design and develop hardware and software for a U.S. Air Force polar satellite system, the company announced Monday. The company will lead a team for the 18-month contract that includes General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boecore Inc., Pollere Inc., Monterey Technologies Inc., Meadowgate Technologies, Perales Consulting […] More

Concurrent Technologies Corp. and New York-based software integrator InfoTech Solutions will team up to provide intelligence analysis services to the Defense Intelligence Agency under a $5.6 billion contract. CTC said the Solutions for Intelligence II contract, or SITE II, includes an option to extend up to five years and covers professional support for security policymakers, […] More

Boeing and Orbital Sciences have completed construction of a communications satellite scheduled for launch Dec. 19, the companies announced Monday. Orbital designed, manufactured and tested the MEXSAT Bicentenario under a contract with Boeing, who will provide two larger satellites in a series scheduled for launch in 2013 and 2014. Orbital based the satellite’s design on […] More

As VP of C4ISR Networked Systems for Northrop Grumman, Ed Bush has responsibility for all C4ISR Enterprise and Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) mission processing programs within NGES that are executed in Baltimore, Maryland; Boulder, Colorado; Aurora, Colorado; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Dayton, Ohio; and Azusa, California. His programs integrate information from space, airborne and surface sensing […] More

The Marine Corps has selected a classified weapon to deploy on a Shadow unmanned aerial system, Aviation Week reports. The high-technology readiness weapon is expected to undergo field evaluation in Afghanistan on the AAI RQ-7B tactical drone. The Marines are slowly working to declassify the weapon so they can more easily test and deploy it. […] More

The role of the chief information officer for government contracting firms has grown to inhabit critical roles inluding budgeting and strategy, while continuing to require the same balance of serving clients with high demands inside the government and the company. For its winter winter edition, the staff at GovCon Exec magazine caught up with some […] More

Northrop Grumman Corporation has appointed Graham Wright and Kathy Salyan to key leadership roles in the U.K. aimed at extending the company’s intelligence-related business and boosting the U.K. footprint for technologies and capabilities important for national security. The duo will focus on identifying new business opportunities and developing strategies to grow the U.K. business base […] More

As the countdown to 2011 begins, ExecutiveBiz brings you its third annual list of the Top 20 People to Watch. From government to industry, this year’s list highlights individuals focused, largely, on two critical fronts: in government, cost-efficiency and national security; on the industry side, new innovation “” and the creation of new U.S. jobs […] More

Although cybersecurity experts have their separate ideas on what the most pressing Internet security concern is, they generally agree on one thing: The threat landscape is evolving into more attacks of increasing sophistication. Here, 10 industry insiders offer their insight into what they believe are the most dangerous cyber threats, ranging from social engineering to […] More

The Air Force Association yesterday announced the formation and initial composition of the CyberPatriot board of advisers, chaired by Dr. Paul G. Kaminski. Entering its second year as a national program, CyberPatriot is an AFA initiative to create the National High School Cyber Defense Competition. It combines online education and preliminary competition rounds delivered over […] More