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David Weston, former Lockheed Martin director, will join ATI as vice president of investor relations. Beginning July 1, he will be responsible for collaborating with investors and ATI’s business leaders to support corporate and financial strategies, the company said Monday. Weston has served in various roles at Lockheed, having been part of the aerospace and […] More
The U.S. Army’s Applied Small Business Innovation Research Program is launching a vendor solicitation for a contract opportunity to develop 3D mapping and modeling technologies to increase military situational awareness in remote and underground locations. The Dynamic Enhanced Environment Perception-Building Information Models program will award up to two SBIR Direct to Phase II contracts with […] More
Srini Iyer, chief technology officer of Leidos’ health group, said he believes having an overall data strategy is essential to promote health equity and improve health outcomes. In an interview on Forum’s Keeping IT Brief podcast, Iyer discusses the challenges in health data management that justify why public and private health organizations should have comprehensive […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s venture capital arm made an investment in Agile Space Industries, a company that produces hypergolic chemical systems for in-space propulsion technologies. Agile said Friday Lockheed Martin Ventures’ contribution closes the seed-2 funding round with over $18 million in financing raised. The financing campaign is part of Agile Space Industries’ plan to boost its […] More
Northrop Grumman marked the completion of its two thousandth solid rocket motor of the UGM-133A Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile. The company said Thursday it finished manufacturing more than 800 units each of the first-stage A1000 and second-stage B1000 motors for the U.S. Navy. Northrop has been supplying the motors to SLBM developer Lockheed Martin […] More
CGI has completed a nonprofit-run cloud certification program to offer an infrastructure-as-a-service platform for government agencies at the state and local levels. CGI said Wednesday the U.S. Cloud IaaS offering has been certified under the State Risk and Authorization Management Program, an initiative by a group of public and private sector technology leaders that set […] More
Axellio has teamed up with Four Inc. to offer its PacketXpress and SensorXpress intelligence software to public sector customers. As Axellio’s federal aggregator, Four Inc. will make the network and data intelligence platforms available through its contract vehicles: NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement and Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2, Axellio CEO Scott Aken […] More
GitLab’s Open Source Partners program has added a global consortium member specializing in the standardization of open source technology. Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer at The Open Group, and David Diederich, the consortium’s GitLab administrator, discussed how the web-based code repository supports their projects in an interview posted Tuesday. The Open Group […] More
RTX subsidiary Pratt & Whitney plans to invest $206 million to expand business operations in Columbus, Georgia, that provide geared turbofan engine support for military and commercial aircraft operators. Pratt & Whitney said Tuesday it expects to create 400 new jobs through 2028 under the expansion initiative and enable its local facilities to overhaul 400 […] More
Canadian simulation developer CAE has agreed to offer the Competency-Based Training and Assessment curriculum developed by Boeing to global aviation customers. The two companies signed an agreement to initially implement the training program in CAE’s locations in India, with other deployments in various parts of the world to follow, Boeing said Monday. The CBTA pilot […] More
GE Aerospace developed a computational fluid dynamics software that could be paired with the Department of Energy’s supercomputer, Frontier, to support engine development. The company said Saturday it conducted simulations on Frontier using the software to evaluate the performance of a novel open fan engine architecture, which is showing promise in helping reduce carbon emissions […] More
Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies— now rebranded as RTX, has increased the number of team members working on the preliminary design review of the F135 jet engine core upgrade and is on schedule to finish the PDR and begin the detailed design phase early next year. The company said Monday that the […] More
