ITT Exelis and Booz Allen Hamilton executives will be making an appearance at the upcoming Credit Suisse Aerospace & Defense Conference on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. ITT’s Chief Executive Officer, President and Board Member Dave Melcher and Chief Financial Officer Peter Milligan will be speaking at the 17th annual conference and …

ITT Exelis broke ground Tuesday on a new 105,000-square-foot facility in Panama City, Fla. for its mine defense business. Exelis will be the anchor tenant at the VentureCrossings business park, located near the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport. “This new facility consolidates three locations into one and significantly improves our operation’s …

Exelis has demonstrated six transmitter assemblies that are built to function as payload components for the U.S. Air Force's first set of GPS satellites. The transmitters were tested in a simulated space environment for random vibration, pyroshock and thermal vacuum to qualify for the GPS III's mission requirements, Exelis said Tuesday. …

David Albritton, Exelis vice president and chief communications officer, has been selected to Savoy Magazine’s list of the “Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America.” Albritton was chosen for his leadership work at Exelis and his involvement in community service, the company announced Tuesday. The U.S. Navy veteran helped …

Exelis Inc. has partnered with a nonprofit organization and a talent consultancy firm to launch a leadership and training program for veterans entering the civilian sector. Korn Ferry International and Points of Light will work with Exelis’ corporate volunteer service program to offer the four-month program to 35 veterans, Exelis …

ITT Exelis has been selected to provide airports in Colorado and Missouri with devices that work to provide controllers and pilots situational awareness during operations. The vehicle movement area transmitters to be supplied to Denver International Airport and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport have features that aim to track airfield activity …

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has certified an ITT Exelis vehicle movement area transmitter as compliant with agency standards on installation in airport vehicles and maintenance. V-MAT is also compliant with FAA standards on the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system, the agency’s satellite-based successor to radar and part of its NextGen …

ITT Corporation has announced the members of the board of directors for ITT Exelis , a new publicly traded company that will result from the Oct. 31 separation of ITT. Ralph Hake, former chairman and CEO of Maytag, will become chairman of the Exelis board. Hake has been an ITT …

David Albritton, formerly executive director of product development and international communications at General Motors, has been promoted to president of the automotive company’s defense business, PR Week reported Wednesday. Albritton said he will focus on efforts to assess GM Defense operations and develop a strategy for the group to engage …

David Melcher, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, has been nominated to join the board of directors at Cubic. Cubic said Friday Melcher will bring decades of experience working with military and government leaders along with a background in finance, …

A subsidiary of Exelis has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Interior Department for its geospatial image analysis software. Exelis Visual Information Solutions will provide ENVI software and related maintenance services for the federal agency under the BPA, which has a one-year base period and four one-year options, …

Exelis has picked Sierra Nevada Corp. to construct the radiation instrument for NASA's Joint Polar Satellite System, Satnews reported Thursday. The radiation budget instrument will work to scan the Earth and measure the amount of reflected sunlight and emitted thermal radiation for the JPSS-2 mission, according to the report. NASA …

Exelis has handed Raytheon six updated ground encryptors built for installation in the operational control system of the U.S. Air Force's global positioning system. The encryptors are designed to help secure data transmitted between OCX and navigation payloads aboard the Air Force's GPS satellites, Exelis said Wednesday. Joe Rambala, Exelis …

Exelis has won a $10.7 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop a radio chip technology that would secure airborne communications against electronic threats. The company aims to build a microarchitecture for engineers to reconfigure military radio subsystems for multiple functions without redesigning an entire system …

Exelis will continue to manufacture pneumatic carriage and release systems for the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle under a $27 million contract from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. The follow-on contract for 619 units of the BRU-71/A ejector rack is the third such order from the California-based aeronautics firm, with work …