ExecutiveBiz News on Video 9/3/2021

Geoffrey Hitchcock, former vice president of sales and business development at Vantage Robotics, has been named senior vice president of global defense solutions at drone software provider Red Cat Holdings. He will be responsible for identifying business opportunities for the Golden Eagle unmanned aircraft system in the military sector and exploring potential public safety applications […]

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured a 27-month, $2.6 million contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory to design and develop an electric flightline generator that can power 5th generation fighter jets and older models. The effort aims to prototype a generator capable of reducing noise and emissions while still performing efficiently and with better quality […]

Mike Rokaw, vice president of operations at Virgin Orbit’s VOX Space subsidiary, said the parent company expects to submit bids for the U.S. Space Force’s future ‘tactically responsive launch’ contracts, which require launch providers to send satellites to orbit on short notice, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “We think we bring to the table a good economic […]

Southwest Research Institute has received a $78.8 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force for research and engineering services in support of a Program Executive Officer directorate within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. Under the 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the nonprofit research and development organization will work with the AFLCMC Agile Combat Support […]

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business will build, integrate and demonstrate prototype sensors for the U.S. Army’s High-Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System under a contract awarded through an other transaction agreement with Consortium Management Group. HADES is the service’s next-generation aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform and the award is for the initial phase of […]

Splunk has received provisional authorization for its cloud technology offering to host Department of Defense data at a high-level security baseline. The Defense Security Information Systems Agency’s Impact Level 5 accreditation allows Splunk Cloud Platform to handle controlled unclassified information for government customers and signifies that the platform is compliant with security and compliance standards […]

Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions unit has teamed up with General Dynamics‘ mission systems business to develop a system for the U.S. Army to train military personnel in fire engagements. Under a one-year contract, the partnership will aim to build a prototype of the Army’s Synthetic Training Environment Live Training System as the service aims […]

George Kamis, chief technology officer of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, said there are five steps federal agencies can implement to protect mission-critical data in the cloud against ransomware and other cybersecurity attacks and the first is adopting zero trust. “Zero trust replaces implicit assumptions about who is trusted with explicit decisions made […]

Lockheed Martin plans to use its facility in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to manufacture parts for new F-16 aircraft in response to global customer demands, and early work at the site is expected to begin this year. The aerospace and defense company said Thursday the facility will produce F-16 engine components, F-1 fuel tank, inlet and other […]

Coras‘ software as a service offering for enterprise decision management has been granted a provisional authority to operate at the high level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The FedRAMP High P-ATO authorization allows low code/no code Coras Federal to be used by the Department of Defense and federal agencies to address challenges […]