Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 05/26/2016

Mitchell Jukanovich Joins Tripwire as Federal Sales VP; Dave Dickison Comments

Mitchell Jukanovich, formerly senior director of intelligence and international sales for Forcepoint, has joined Tripwire as vice president of federal sales. He will oversee the company’s sales efforts in the public sector as part of his new role, Tripwire saidThursday…

Reuters: Orbital ATK Eyes Development of Rocket Tech Offering for Military Satellite Sector

Orbital ATK aims to build a rocket technology offering for the U.S. Air Force as part of the company’s push into the national security satellite market, Reuters reported Tuesday. Irene Klotz writes John Steinmeyer, director of business development at Orbital ATK, said at the Space Congress held Tuesdayin Florida the company would base its “Next Generation Launcher” on solid-rocket boosters that were used on NASA’s space shuttle fleet…

Air Force Seeks White Papers for Software-Defined RF Systems R&D Program

The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit white papers for a potential four-year, $24.8 million program that seeks to develop airborne-based, software-defined radio frequency platforms designed to support the service branch’s radio communications missions…

Linden Blue: General Atomics Subsidiary Forms UAV Training Partnerships With CAE, UND Aerospace Foundation

A General Atomics subsidiary has signed partnership agreements with CAE and the University of North Dakota’s aerospace foundation in an effort to augment training services for operators of Predator and Reaper remotely piloted aircraft…

Salesforce Taps AWS to Provide Public Cloud Infrastructure; Andy Jassy Comments

Salesforce has picked Amazon Web Services to provide a public cloud infrastructure to the customer relationship management company as part of Salesforce’s effort to expand its international service infrastructure…

BAE Systems Inks Agreement With Malaysia’s Cybersecurity Authority to Support Industry Growth

BAE Systems and CyberSecurity Malaysia have signed a memorandum of agreement to support the growth of the cybersecurity industry in the Southeast Asian country, Enterprise IT News reported Wednesday. Cat Yong writes BAE will provide a specialist staff and laboratories to CyberSecurity Malaysia to facilitate Common Criteria product certification to support the development of cyber products in the local market…

General Dynamics Delivers 30 Digital Manpack Networking Radios Under Army Contract

General Dynamics‘ mission systems segment has shipped 30 two-channel manpack networking radios to the U.S. Army under the Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit program. The company said Wednesday the digital radios are based on the AN/PRC-155 two-channel networking radios and work to communicate through the Mobile User Objective System network…

Canadian Air Force Selects ViaSat Small Tactical Terminal for Patrol Aircraft

ViaSat has been selected to provide a small tactical terminal to the Canadian air force for use in the service’s long-range patrol aircraft CP-140 Aurora. The broadband services and technology firm will work with General Dynamics’ mission systems business unit to manufacture the two-channel, software-defined KOR-24A terminal for the customer, ViaSat said Wednesday…

Vencore Lands 1st Task Order via $460M Cybercom IDIQ Contract; Mac Curtis Comments

Vencore has secured the first task order to provide mission support to the U.S. Cyber Command under a potential five-year, $460 million contract vehicle the company won a position on. The order is worth $89 million and the company is scheduled to commence work in June, Vencore said Wednesday…

Navy Picks Global Technical Systems to Supply RF Countermeasure Hardware Components

Global Technical Systems has secured a $7.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the procurement of as many as 12,275 hardware components to be used for the Technique Control Modulator Hydra. The Defense Department saidWednesday the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division will obligate $55,498 from the U…

Woolpert Promotes Scott Cattran to President, CEO

Former Woolpert Chief Operating Officer Scott Cattran has been appointed as the architecture, engineering and geospatial company’s new president and CEO. Cattran started work with Woolpert in 1999 as a phase manager in the Dayton, Ohio, headquarters and has since helped develop the firm’s Western presence and secure sales worth more than $30 million for the Virginia office, the company said Tuesday…

Georgia Tech Wins Air Force Contract to Develop Analog Sensing Platforms for Digital Devices

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Georgia Tech a potential four-year, $9.4 million contract to research and develop multi-model analog sensing platforms for the service branch. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost reimbursement contract through a competitive acquisition process with 45 proposals received as part of the Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security program, the Defense Department saidWednesday…