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Uber selected Dara Khosrowshahi, who leads the online travel company Expedia, to be its chief executive on Sunday, capping a contentious search process as the ride-hailing company seeks to move past a turbulent period. Khosrowshahi emerged as the leading candidate from a field of three finalists over a weekend of Uber board meetings, according to two people with knowledge of the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the details were confidential.
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The MQ-9B is a STANAG 4671 -compliant version of the PredatorA B product line. )--On August 16th General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. flew a MQ-9B SkyGuardiana Remotely Piloted Aircraft from Laguna Airfield at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz., through National Airspace, to its Gray Butte Flight Operations facility near Palmdale, Calif.
On Friday an appeals court panel said that federal officials must reconsider their decision not to regulate the size of airline seats as a safety issue. One of the judges called it "the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat."
The failure of a well-known home alarm system can't provide legal grounds for a mother's lawsuit over the murder of her son, a federal appeals court has ruled. That decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit spares ADT Corp. and Honeywell International LLC from the suit over the March 2015 slaying of an eastern Pennsylvania man.
Dwayne Madigan, Teresa Golightly, Dave Rusk, and Cecil Affleck all worked for Jeff Immelt. They manufactured General Electric's most iconic product: the old-fashioned light bulb, as invented by GE founder Thomas Edison.
The U.S. Air Force selected Northrop Grumman Corporation's APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar as the active electronically scanned array for its F-16 radar upgrade. Northrop Grumman will upgrade 72 U.S. Air National Guard F-16s to meet a U.S. Northern Command Joint Emergent Operational Need for homeland defense.
The U.S. Navy and Japan will buy an additional $42 million worth of submarine-hunting sonar systems from Lockheed Martin's plant in suburban Syracuse, according to Pentagon officials. The deal confirmed by Lockheed Martin officials Monday is at least the fourth option exercised by the Navy on a contract worth up to $199 million for TB-37 multi-function towed arrays.
Several well-known American defense contractors got a big lift Monday thanks to new deals by the Saudi Arabian government to purchase weapons, ships, aircraft and other military equipment in the wake of President Trump's visit to the kingdom. Lockheed Martin said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia was spending more than $28 billion on missiles, radar defense systems and 150 S-70 Black Hawk helicopters, among other things.
Drones are buzzing around the sky delivering products to customers, snapping videos and photos and conducting search and rescue missions, making it necessary for all of these high-flying machines to be regulated with their own air traffic system set to launch by 2025. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been working with the Federal Aviation Administration and corporations to research requirements necessary for a drone traffic management system, and whatever they learn will be tested this summer, according to the Los Angeles Times .
A federal appeals court has upheld a decision by the Merit Systems Protection Board that the Defense Department was correct in furloughing 40 employees in a unit supported by a working capital fund. Victoria Snyder, who was a civilian mechanical engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Dahlgren Division, was furloughed for six days in 2013 as part of the government-wide sequestration that began that year.
Candidates vying for local office are making their pitches to voters across the area - including Dish, which has a mayor's race on the ballot - ahead of the start of early voting that begins Monday and ends May 2. During early voting, voters can cast ballots at any early voting site. On election day, May 6, voters must vote at their designated precinct.
Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd reduced its stake in shares of Heico Corporation by 16.0% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 6,172 shares of the company's stock after selling 1,178 shares during the period.
FILE - This Nov. 25, 2016, file satellite image taken by DigitalGlobe shows the construction site of the Dakota Access pipeline near Cannon Ball, N.D. Opponents of the pipeline called for protests around the world Wednesday... Developments on the Dakota Access pipeline have unfolded swiftly in recent weeks, with many of them propelled by the transition from President Barack Obama's administration to Donald Trump's. Here's a look at what happened involving the $3.8 billion pipeline - and what's yet to come: A company called Energy Transfer Partners has been working for months on the 1,200-mile project as a way to get oil from North Dakota's rich Bakken fields across four states to a shipping point in Illinois.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Canada's financial aid package for Bombardier Inc. is consistent with trade rules, as Brazil pushed for a hearing in front of the World Trade Organization on what it considers unfair subsidies. The Brazilian government formally sought "consultations" early Wednesday with Canada in front of the WTO with the blessing of Bombardier's South American rival Embraer SA, according to a statement from that company.
After President Donald Trump got involved in the negotiation with the overpriced U.S. military contract for F-35's, the Pentagon announced Friday that they have reached a deal with Lockheed Martin for the purchase of 90 F-35 jets . The price tag will be the lowest in the program's history.
CAE today announced that it has signed two long-term training services contracts with the United States Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force with a combined value of more than C$1 billion, including options. The contract with the U.S. Army is for rotary-wing flight training classroom, simulator, and live flying instructor support services for one year with eight one-year options until 2026.
FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. Trump's closest advisers see Democrats' complaints that Moscow hacked their private ... The CEO of Boeing is meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago just weeks after a public flap over the cost of the Air Force One project.