Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 11/10/2017

Deborah Ricci Succeeds Barry Broadus as Constellis CFO

Deborah Ricci, formerly senior vice president of finance and accounting at Constellis, has been promoted to chief financial officer of the Reston, Virginia-based risk management and operational support services contractor…

The Australian government has initiated a two-year trial of satellite positioning technologies that could support operations across various industries. The office of Matt Canavan, minister for resources and Northern Australia, said Thursday initial contracts have been signed for an effort to study the economic and social impacts of a Satellite-Based Augmentation System on Australia and Asia…

PatientPoint has partnered with The Veteran Group to offer point-of-care education and engagement platforms to the Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal healthcare providers. The Veteran Group will deploy and install PatientPoint’s health technology products at government customer facilities in an effort to help improve clinician-patient communication, PatientPoint said Thursday…

BAE Systems has completed third life testing on a full-scale durability test airframe for the conventional takeoff-and-landing variant of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft. AJ-1, which represents the F-35A‘s airframe, underwent durability and load endurance tests equivalent to 24,000 flight hours inside a 386-ton structural test rig installed at a BAE facility in Brough, England, the company said Thursday…

A joint venture of Concurrent Technologies Corpss and the University of Dayton Research Institute received $3 million in task orders during the months of August and September to support U.S. Air Force‘s energy management and efficiency efforts…

Rescale‘s high performance computing platform will begin to support both HPE and SGI servers to help clients access and oversee a hybrid environment that features cloud and on-premises systems in a unified platform…

Ball Aerospace has helped encapsulate a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite inside the nose cone of a United Launch Alliance-built Delta II launch vehicle and prepared the instrument for its scheduled launch…

LexisNexis has added data from the Defense Department Boards for the Correction of Military Records to its online research tool in a move to provide veterans and their advocates with access military record change information from all the military branches…

On November 12th at 11 am on WJLA; and 6PM on News Channel 8 Host of The Bridge Jim McCarthy will feature the third and final installment on Hurricanes Irma, Maria and Harvey. This episode will focus on the recovery and emergency response after the hurricanes subsided, and how the private sector can help rebuild and fix the infrastructure of these heavily impacted areas…

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat‘s U.S. government business unit, facilitated a recent panel discussion on the use of commercial business models to address the Defense Department‘s satellite communications access challenges…

Lockheed Martin‘s U.K. subsidiary has completed an initial manned live-fire test of a turret system the company built for the British army’s fleet of AJAX armored fighting vehicles. The company said Monday that General Dynamics‘ land systems business in the U…

Calibre Systems has received a task order to support joint capabilities development programs of the National Guard Bureau‘s J8 Force Structure, Resources and Assessment division. The company said Tuesday the order was issued under the Human Capital and Training Solutions indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract managed by the Office of Personnel and Management and General Services Administration…