Blue Origin intends to continue flight tests for its New Shepard launch vehicle amid the coronavirus outbreak in an effort to meet its goals for suborbital spaceflight by the year“™s end, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

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Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith told CNBC in an interview published Tuesday about the company“™s partnership with three other companies to build a landing system that will bring astronauts to the moon.

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Booz Allen Hamilton will provide consulting, engineering and technical support services for the U.S. Army after being chosen by the service as primary contractor for the Expedited Professional and Engineering Support Services blanket purchase agreement. The company said Thursday the Express BPA multiple award contracting vehicle calls for the provision of advisory services for the […] More

As vice president at RMF Engineering, Bob Smith leads the Baltimore, Md.-based professional services firm’s new business development efforts. Smith has been with the company since its first year of operation in 1983 and elevated to his current position in 1991 after holding several project engineering and project management positions. A recent chairman of the […] More

ExecutiveBiz: You“™ve been with RMF since its start in 1983. How would you characterize the company“™s evolution over that time? Bob Smith: I think there were two major growth periods for us. One was in the early days when we’d begun to take a lot of projects for the Johns Hopkins Health System. Johns Hopkins […] More

Bob Smith serves as vice president of business development at RMF Engineering. He has focused his entire career on the development and improvement of central heating, cooling, and power systems serving campuses, such as colleges, hospitals, research centers and government agencies. Smith has also served as the chairman of the board of the International District Energy […] More

Peter Sacripanti, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, and former Salesforce Chief Financial Officer Graham Smith have joined the board of directors at Citrix. Citrix said Tuesday Sacripanti, chair of the executive committee of McDermott Will & Emery, will serve on the audit and finance committees of Citrix and Smith on the compensation committee. “Both are highly accomplished business […] More

Tony Moraco, chief executive of SAIC, is moving to establish a more direct tie between him and members of his management team in 2014. Chief Information Officer Bob Fecteau and Chief Communications Officer Lucy Fitch will both report directly to Moraco beginning sometime after Feb. 1, the contractor said, as will Jennifer Smith, senior vice […] More

Bob Dunn is the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Ericsson Federal. We had the chance to chat with him about what emerging trends he sees for Ericsson Federal in 2010 and how they will continue to be a leader in mobile broadband solutions. We also learned about Dunn“™s favorite part of his job, […] More

By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International Throughout my career in both government and industry, I have been a strong proponent of the role of small business to be able to create innovative solutions for national security and homeland security. The success of the science and technology innovation supply chain requires public/private cooperation and […] More

John Hyten, a retired U.S. Air Force general who served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has joined Blue Origin as strategic adviser to senior leadership and executive director for its Club for the Future foundation. The aerospace company said Wednesday Hyten, a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, will be responsible for driving […] More

Blue Origin has inaugurated a new factory in Huntsville, Ala., that will work to accommodate high-rate production efforts for two rocket engines.

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