Lockheed Boosts Full-Year Guidance on 2Q Earnings, Revenue Beats Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) lifted full-year earnings and revenue guidance Tuesday and exceeded analysts’ second quarter estimates for both figures on sales from the Sikorsky helicopter business acquired in November as negotiations between the company and U…

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Michael Gilday Succeeds Jan Tighe as US Fleet Cyber Command Chief Vice Adm. Michael Gilday has formally taken command of the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet during a change-of-command ceremony Thursday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland. Gilday, formerly director of operations (J3) for U…

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Air Force Seeks Industry Information on Records Mgmt Automation Tool The U.S. Air Force wants industry information on potential sources for a tool that can automate records management processes in support of efforts to boost consistency and timeliness in the filing of records…

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Greg Hyslop Adds CTO Role at Boeing; Dennis Muilenburg Comments Greg Hyslop, senior vice president of engineering, test and technology at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been appointed to also serve as chief technology officer of the company. He will succeed the retiring John Tracy, CTO for 10 years and a 35-year company veteran, and continue to report to Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president and CEO, the company said Monday…

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FMS Program Head Joe Rixey to Headline Global Weapons Trade Discussion Forum for Potomac Officers Club The top uniformed officer over the U.S. government’s foreign military sales program will keynote an Aug. 3 breakfast forum hosted by Executive Mosaic’s Potomac Officers Club in Falls Church, Virginia to discuss the global arms trade’s current environment and the role of domestic industry in efforts to help defense agencies support security interests of allies…

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VA Partners With IBM, Bombas, BMS Foundation For Veteran Care Delivery The Department of Veterans Affairs has formed partnerships with IBM, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and Bombas to facilitate care delivery and access for U.S. military veterans. VA said Monday the collaborations are part of its MyVA Strategic Partnership Initiative and align with the department’s strategy on mental health, research and homelessness…

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Army to Hold Cyberspace Prototyping Experiment to Help Address Warfighting Challenge The U.S. Army‘s Cyber Center of Excellence plans to launch an annual cyberspace operations, signal and electronic warfare prototyping experiment in July 2017 to assess emerging technologies that could help address a warfighting challenge…

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NASA Seeks Space Station Docking Port Concepts From Industry NASA has begun to explore ideas for the use of a docking port on the International Space Station with a goal to pave the way for independent space stations, Space News reported Friday. Jeff Foust writes the space agency launched a request for information in early July for limited availability ISS resources that NASA hopes could help to support economic development in low Earth orbit…

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SAIC to Help DLA Establish Spare Parts Supply Chain Mgmt Program The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Science Applications International Corp. a potential five-year, $41.5 million contract to create a total supply chain management initiative for multiclass spare parts…

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Harris Wins Contract to Deliver Radio System Assembly Parts to Army Harris has secured a potential $22.5 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply circuit card assembly parts of single channel ground-to-air radio systems. The Defense Department said Monday the five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will support the U…

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