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  • BAE Systems Commences Maple Grove Facility Construction
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    BAE Systems Commences Maple Grove Facility Construction

    u003Cpu003Eu003Ca href=”https://executivebiz.com/?s=bae+systems” target=”_blank”u003Eu003Cspanu003Eu003Cuu003EBAE Systemsu003C/uu003Eu003C/spanu003Eu003C/au003Eu003Cspanu003E' combat mission systems business is set to start building its u003C/spanu003Eu003Ca href=”https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bae-systems-breaks-ground-on-cutting-edge-engineering-and-product-development-site-in-maple-grove-302124777.html” target=”_blank”u003Eu003Cspanu003Eu003Cuu003Enew site in Maple Grove, Minnesotau003C/uu003Eu003C/spanu003Eu003C/au003Eu003Cspanu003E, with completion expected in 2025. The 236,000-square-foot facility will showcase advanced technology and infrastructure as well as energy-efficient designs in line with the company’s carbon neutrality goal by 2030, BAE Systems said Tuesday.u003C/spanu003Eu003C/pu003E More

  • DZYNE Technologies to Open New Manufacturing, R&D Facility in California
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    DZYNE Technologies to Open New Manufacturing, R&D Facility in California

    DZYNE Technologies will open a new manufacturing and research and development facility in Irvine, California, to accommodate its growing workforce of engineers, researchers and manufacturing personnel and support its development of uncrewed autonomous systems for defense applications. The 125,000-square-foot facility will be showcased in the new year along with the company's autonomous defense offerings and manufacturing capabilities.

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  • Anduril Opens New UAV R&D, Production Facility in Atlanta - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anduril Opens New UAV R&D, Production Facility in Atlanta

    Anduril has unveiled a new facility in Atlanta, Georgia, that will house the production of its suite of autonomous air systems including the multi-domain unmanned aerial vehicle Altius. The company said Monday the 180,000-square-foot office includes research and development laboratories, a 3D printing facility, a machine shop and a manufacturing lab to support the production […] More

  • BAE Unveils New Hampshire-Based Facility for Electronic Warfare Tech Manufacturing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unveils New Hampshire-Based Facility for Electronic Warfare Tech Manufacturing

    BAE Systems has opened a new manufacturing facility in Manchester, New Hampshire, to support the development of electronic warfare technology for domestic and international military customers. The defense contractor said Monday the 200,000-square-foot building houses office spaces, laboratories and engineering facilities and will accommodate its workforce development plan in the state. BAE aims to hire […] More

  • Lockheed, Navy Open Renovated Cape Canaveral Facility to Support Fleet Ballistic Missile Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Navy Open Renovated Cape Canaveral Facility to Support Fleet Ballistic Missile Program

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy have opened a newly-renovated building at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to accommodate the company’s employees for the military branch’s Fleet Ballistic Missile program. The company said Thursday roughly 200 staff will move into the Engineering and Operations facility over the next few months. Eric Scherff, vice president for the […] More

  • Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England

    Smiths Detection has opened a Hemel Hempstead, England-based facility for engineering, research and production of chemical and explosive detection technologies. The company said Thursday it will develop security products for the aviation, military and emergency response sectors at the new 67,000-square-foot center of excellence for trace detection. The facility is located nearly 11 miles from Smiths Detection’s previous manufacturing hub […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes Expansion of California Facility for Missile Warning System, Munition Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes Expansion of California Facility for Missile Warning System, Munition Production

    Orbital ATK has completed the expansion of its facility in Northridge, California, to accommodate the production of the company’s AAR-47 missile warning system and Common Munition Bit Reprogramming Equipment. The company said Monday that it transitioned the AAR-47 and CMBRE product lines from Florida to the updated facility. The Northridge installation also produces the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile […] More

  • Iron Mountain Unveils Spokane Facility for Data Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Unveils Spokane Facility for Data Mgmt Services

    Iron Mountain has opened a new record storage, shredding and document imaging facility in Spokane, Washington to serve the area’s business community. The company said Thursday the 40,000 square foot establishment features a total storage capacity of 416,000 cubic feet, on-site imaging on demand and information destruction services. Ben Whitley, an Iron Mountain district manager, […] More

  • Textron Unit Unveils New UAS Training, Maintenance Facility to Support Nat'l Airspace Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Unit Unveils New UAS Training, Maintenance Facility to Support Nat’l Airspace Integration

    A Textron business unit has established a new facility for unmanned aircraft system training and maintenance activities to support research on UAS integration into national airspace. The unmanned systems service and support center houses Textron Systems‘ training and global service operations, the company’s schoolhouse for operators and maintainers and its sustainment operations for the Aerosonde small UAS, Textron said Monday. “With this […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Unveils Facility for Virginia-Class Submarine Crews; Ken Mahler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Unveils Facility for Virginia-Class Submarine Crews; Ken Mahler Comments

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has launched a new building in Newport News, Virginia, to provide work and training spaces for the crews of future Virginia-class submarines. The Newport News Shipbuilding division’s pre-commissioning unit facility houses office spaces, bunk rooms for sailors, hospital corpsmen’s offices, galleys, classrooms and a calibration laboratory, HII said Monday. “As we […] More

  • Mississippi Pumps $20M into Huntington Ingalls Shipyard Development; Brian Cuccias Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mississippi Pumps $20M into Huntington Ingalls Shipyard Development; Brian Cuccias Comments

    The state government of Mississippi has invested $20 million in Huntington Ingalls Industries’ shipyard development project. Gov. Phil Bryant joined other state officials and Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian Cuccias in a ceremonial signing of the bond bill that supports the Shipyard of the Future project, Huntington Ingalls said Friday. “Mississippi’s financial investment in our Shipyard […] More

  • Mike Hamel: Lockheed to Consolidate Denver Commercial Space Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Hamel: Lockheed to Consolidate Denver Commercial Space Business

    Lockheed Martin Corp.’s space systems division plans to open hundreds of new satellite design and manufacturing jobs at its Denver, Colo.-based headquarters in June, the Denver Business Journal reported Monday. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. recently moved some of its employees to the new campus in Jefferson County and an additional 350 workers are set […] More