Mary Petryszyn, former corporate vice president of Northrop Grumman and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, and Tana Utley, former executive at Caterpillar, will join the board of directors of Woodward on June 1. The aerospace and industrial equipment manufacturer said Wednesday Petryszyn led the defense systems sector at Northrop as president in addition to her CVP […] More

Caterpillar Defense has received a potential six-year, $65M contract from the U.S. Navy to perform service life extension efforts for civil engineering support equipment used at Naval Base Ventura County in California.

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Satellogic will add six new members to its board of directors upon becoming publicly listed through the geospatial company’s merger with CF Acquisition Corp. Marcos Galperin, Jenette Ramos, Brad Halverson, Dava Newman, Tarun Bhatnagar and Robert Bearden will work with Ted Wang, incoming chairman, and Emiliano Kargieman, CEO of Satellogic, on the board, the company […] More

AI SpaceFactory, a New York-based architectural and technology design company, won a NASA competition focused on the development of space habitation structures using advanced manufacturing technology.

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NASA wants technology ideas from citizen inventors that can help create 3D-printed shelters for space explorers as part of the second phase of a $1.1 million challenge. The agency said Friday it started the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge to search for material technologies that could help print shelters from a combination of readily-available and recyclable materials. “Shelter is an obvious necessity as we prepare to explore […] More

Research and Markets has released a report that forecasts the global generator market for military and defense sector to reach a compound annual growth rate of 4.5 percent from 2016 through 2020. The report projected a decline in the need for backup power generators in military installations caused by electric power supply coming from renewable […] More