Northrop Grumman‘s joint venture has recently marked the anniversary of its aviation support to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of National Guard, which began with the delivery and integration of 12 MD530F rotary-wing aircraft in May 2013. “This is a significant milestone for our partnership and we look forward to continued program excellence,” Bob Coffey, …

Saudi Arabia’s national guard ministry plans to award a contract in September 2014 for maintenance work on 60 helicopters stationed in the country’s capital of Riyadh. QinetiQ North America said Thursday it is a member of a Northrop Grumman-led team competing for that contract and additional members include the PAE-owned subsidiary …

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including …

Charles Sowell serves as senior vice president in Salient Federal Solutions‘ system and software engineering solutions business unit, where he oversees work in the areas of security clearances, insider threat prevention and detection and big data analysis. He most recently served as deputy assistant director for special security for the Office of …

Dr. Melvin Greer serves as senior fellow and chief strategist for service-oriented architecture and cloud computing at Lockheed Martin, where he brings more than 25 years of experience leading systems and software engineering efforts to the contractor’s advanced technology office. Greer is a principal investigator in advanced research studies, and …

Northrop Grumman has formed a team designed to perform work on the integrated maintenance support services contract from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of National Guard. The team includes joint venture companies Vinnell Arabia and Northrop Grumman Aviation Arabia as well as AAR Inc., PAE subsidiary DS2 and QinetiQ North America, Northrop Grumman …

Lockheed Martin Corp. has opened a new corporate office in Ottawa to better serve the company’s Canadian partners and customers. According to a company statement, the new corporate presence will help strengthen customer relationships as the company develops domestic and international opportunities meant to create value for the company’s Canadian …

Shamun Mahmud, cloud security architect at DLT Solutions, highlighted recent survey findings from SailPoint in that firm’s annual market pulse survey on information technology mobility and cloud computing. In a blog post, Mahmud compared Sailpoint’s findings for the commercial sector to what DLT sees in the public sector. Mahmud wrote …

Raytheon will open a public safety technology research center Monday in Downey, Calif., near Los Angeles. Raytheon said the center will focus on developing open architecture and open communications standards to assist public safety agencies in their daily operations and incident response processes. Raytheon will demonstrate a vendor-neutral communications network …

The Schafer Corp. has recently teamed up with UP Aerospace to provide comprehensive launch and payload integration services for up to eight NASA launches during 2012 and 2013. Schafer is responsible for ensuring that the payloads are tested and properly integrated into the SpaceLoft vehicle. “This is not new to us, …

Salient Federal Solutions was awarded a multi-year prime contract to impletement Assure6 product suite into the U.S. Air Force information technology systems. Salient’s Assure6 cybersecurity policy manager is built to detect and block malicious IPv6 attacks. It will assist the Air Force Networks in defense from costly cyber attacks generated …

The FBI and U.S. Secret Service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers, resulting in nearly one in four hackers becoming a cyberspace snitch, according to experts who spoke to the Guardian. Eric Corley, who publishes hacker magazine 2600, told the U.K. newspaper he believes …

The Vatican was Google-bombed this weekend, with users conducting searches for the Vatican being routed to a site called www.pedofilo.com. The website’s name is the Italian word for paedophile, though Italian reports claim the website was based in Mexico, according to The Register. The attack appears to have been first …

Lockheed Martin announced plans last week to sell most of its Enterprise Integration Group (EIG) and Pacific Architects and Engineers, Inc. (PAE) in order to stay ahead of government concerns about organizational conflicts of interest (OCI). “Through EIG, Lockheed Martin provides both systems and services to a broad range of government …

Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) announced its plans yesterday to divest most of the Enterprise Integration Group (EIG) and Pacific Architects and Engineers, Inc. (PAE). “EIG and PAE are both solid businesses with good growth prospects, but their growth and ultimate long-term value are currently being constrained by their affiliation …