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    Arthur Gregg Awarded the General Creighton W. Abrams Medal; Rose Wang Comments

    Lt. Gen. (ret.) Arthur Gregg, member of Binary Group‘s board of advisers, has received the General Creighton W. Abrams Medal in recognition of his contributions to the U.S. Army. The Association of the United States Army presented the award to Gregg at its annual meeting and exposition on Oct. 13, Binary Group said Friday. Gregg, a 35-year Army veteran, retired from active management in 1996 […] More

  • in Executive Spotlight

    Executive Profile: Karl Williams, PAE COO

    Karl Williams serves as chief operating officer for PAE, where he is responsible for the company’s three business units. Williams served as vice president and general manager of Engility’s government services business before he joined PAE in April. He has also served as Engility’s business controller with responsibility in financial management of the company’s global operational assets. Williams’ career includes time […] More

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    23 Soldiers Graduate From Raytheon, GM, Army Training Program

    Raytheon, General Motors, and the U.S. Army have certified the first graduating class of their training program for soldiers that will transition into the private sector as service technicians for GM. Raytheon said Tuesday the first class in the 12-week “Shifting Gears” automotive technician training program produced 23 graduates who have received certification to work in GM dealerships across the U.S. […] More

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    Lockheed to Help CBP Test Aerostat for Border Surveillance; Paula Hartley Comments

    Lockheed Martin has provided U.S. Customs and Border Protection with a tethered aerostat-based radar platform meant to help the agency detect potential threats along the southern border. CBP is testing the Persistent Threat Detection System for the agency’s border surveillance activities in collaboration with Lockheed and the U.S. Army, the company said Wednesday. The Army […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Textron’s Ellen Lord: Incremental Innovation Key to Meeting Defense Budget Challenges

    Ellen Lord, CEO of Textron Systems, believes the U.S. defense industry’s future growth lies in efforts to make incremental investments that could offer contractors a step change in technology modernization, Defense News reported Tuesday. Paul McCleary writes Lord highlighted the challenges and opportunities for industry amid federal spending uncertainty in a speech at the Association of the […] More

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    DRS-Rafael Team to Chase Army Chase Tank Protection Program; Mike O’Leary Comments

    DRS Technologies and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will jointly pursue a U.S. Army tank defense contract and offer a Rafael-built Trophy active protection system, DoD Buzz reported Wednesday. Kris Osborn writes the vehicle-mounted Trophy system works to detect and engage enemy fire through the use of a radar, processor and on-board computer. “Trophy will…compute an intercept point in space away […] More

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    DynCorp Recognized for Materiel Readiness Contribution; James Myles Comments

    DynCorp International has received recognition from the Army Aviation Association of America for the company’s contribution to the U.S. Army‘s materiel readiness and logistics operations. AAAA will present an award to DynCorp at the Joseph P. Cribbins Aviation Product Symposium on Nov. 6 in Huntsville, Alabama, DynCorp said Thursday. “We are humbled, as we take supporting the U.S. Army very seriously,” said […] More

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    Raytheon Launches Patriot Scholarship for Student Veterans; Ralph Acaba Comments

    Raytheon and the Student Veterans of America will provide $10,000 educational grants to two U.S. Army servicemen under a new scholarship program that the defense contractor launched this week. The Raytheon Patriot Scholarship aims to help returning soldiers reestablish themselves academically as civilians, the company said Tuesday. The grant is named after Raytheon’s Patriot air and missile defense […] More

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    Rob Smith: Lockheed to Help Army Update Common Intell Network

    The U.S. Army has partnered with Lockheed Martin to modernize an information technology system that works to help military personnel access and exchange multisource intelligence data. Lockheed developed new software for the Army’s Distributed Common Ground System with the goal of helping the service analyze terabytes of intelligence collected from both manned and unmanned platforms, […] More

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    BAE Picks GE Computing Tech for ‘Bradley’ Armored Vehicle Simulators

    General Electric has won a $2.6 million contract to supply rugged computers for integration into the simulation equipment of infantry combat vehicles that BAE Systems is building for the U.S. Army. BAE plans to implement GE’s 3U VPX computing technology with the common embedded training system onboard the Bradley Fighting Vehicles, GE said Monday. GE […] More

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    Dave Gulla: Raytheon Tests Potential Integration of Army Surveillance Blimp, NORAD Warning Tech

    Raytheon has finished testing an aerostat radar platform the company designed to help the U.S. Army track missile and aircraft threats as far as 340 miles away. The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor system consists of two helium-filled blimps that are built to fly at 10,000 feet to identify targets and […] More

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    Army Takes in Lockheed Digital Air Ground Integration Range; Jim Weitzel Comments

    Lockheed Martin has delivered an initial digital air ground integration range to the U.S. Army‘s program executive office simulation, training and instrumentation at Fort Bliss, Texas. The company demonstrated the range in an arms live fire exercise during the government’s acceptance test, Lockheed said Thursday. “The digital air ground integration range offers more realistic training, helping soldiers, crews and platoons build […] More