Concurrent Technologies Corp. will develop a black water processing system for military expeditionary sites under a $1.6 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s  Advanced Power Technology Office. The Expeditionary Black Water Processing System will be built to reduce the impacts of wastewater on the natural environment of host nations, the company said Tuesday. Thomas Piro, a CTC […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary and Romaero have signed a partnership agreement with the goal to encourage Romanian defense companies to support in-country assembly and maintenance of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Romaero said Wednesday Lockheed authorized the Bucharest-based aerospace company to host a regional center that will assemble, equip, customize and maintain the multimission aircraft in Central Europe. Eric Schreiber, a […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s Kathryn Hamilton and Chandria Poole have received awards at the annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards ceremony that recognized excellence in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. The BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference took place in Washington, D.C. from Feb. 8 to 10, Northrop said Monday. Hamilton, an engineering program manager within Northrop’s […] More

Maury Blackman, formerly president and CEO of San Ramon, California-based government technology company Accela, has been appointed to similar roles at Premise Data. Blackman will help Premise Data provide government agencies and companies with a data and analytics platform designed to help them derive actionable intelligence from data gathered by a “network of on-the-ground contributors,” […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has completed the qualification procedure for a comprehensive weapons system developed for S-70M and S-70i Black Hawk helicopters. An independent qualification assurance board confirmed the effectiveness and conformance of Sikorsky’s Black Hawk weapons system to military airworthiness, operational safety and firing standards, Lockheed said Monday. The system employs an electro-optical infrared sensor technology and designed […] More

BlackRidge Technology International has appointed four executives to its newly established government advisory board that will work to provide insights on the cybersecurity and network requirements of the Defense Department and other public sector clients. David Peed, vice president and general manager at Equinix Government Solutions with oversight over the firm’s Americas public sector strategy, will […] More

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works broke its silence on plans to build the SR-72, a hypersonic spy plane successor of the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft. The SR-72 will have a combined cycle propulsion system that combines a supersonic jet engine with a rocket engine, Lockheed Martin’s advanced aircraft division told Aviation Week. According to specifications, the SR-72 will […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has completed the delivery of two S-70i Black Hawk helicopters that will be modified into a specialized configuration for the use of the Los Angeles county’s fire department. The turnover ceremony for the future Firehawk-configuration aircraft occurred in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Lockheed said Wednesday. Thomas Ewald, deputy fire chief of the L.A. County Fire Department’s air […] More

Black Box has received a one-year, $10.4 million award to provide information technology supplies and related management services for the U.S. Army-funded Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. The company said Thursday it will help the Ukrainian defense ministry expand the deployment of an enterprise IT architecture to additional military facilities across the country. Black Box will provide hardware […] More

NASA has confirmed the operational status of two unmanned aircraft systems that Vanilla Aircraft and Black Swift Technologies separately developed through the space agency’s Small Business Innovative Research program. NASA said Tuesday Vanilla Aircraft’s VA001 and Black Swift’s S2 small UAS are both designed to support scientific investigations. VA001 works to operate in austere conditions with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit, lift 35 […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division hosted a christening ceremony Saturday for the U.S. Navy‘s future Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119). HII said Saturday approximately 1,200 people attended the event at the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi and Steven Giordano, master chief petty officer of the Navy, delivered the keynote address. Ima Black, widow of World War II […] More

The U.S. Navy will conduct a christening ceremony for the future USS Delbert D. Black guided-missile destroyer at a Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ceremony to be held Nov. 4 at the Ingalls Shipbuilding facility will feature World War II Navy veteran and ship namesake MCPON Delbert Black’s widow Ima Black as the ship’s […] More