TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 24, 2017 — A business unit of Harris (NYSE: HRS) has formed a strategic partnership with Avtec to resell the latter’s dispatch console system to public safety, energy, government and industry customers in North America, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Avtec said Wednesday Harris’ public safety and professional communications division will …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 17, 2017 — A Dell EMC-sponsored survey indicates that 64 percent of federal information technology leaders have noted their agencies using software-defined data centers due to factors such as agility, flexibility and efficiency, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the federal extension of its “State of IT Trends” report …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 6, 2017 — Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has entered into an agreement with Esri to bring commercial satellite imagery, open data systems and unmanned aircraft systems to the federal marketplace, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Esri said Thursday the enterprise agreement seeks to facilitate the development of applications and …

Harris (NYSE: HRS) has secured a two-year, $189 million contract to build an integrated battle management system for the United Arab Emirates’ military. The contract was booked during the company’s fiscal 2017 first quarter under the Emirates Command and Control System Land Tactical System program that aims to integrate, coordinate and maximize the efficiency …

Jeffrey Harris, a 40-year national security professional, and retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Yakovac have been elected to the board of directors of Concurrent Technologies Corp. Ed Sheehan, CTC president and CEO and vice chairman of the board, said in a statement released Friday he expects Harris and Yakovac to …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 14, 2017 — DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) and Esri have teamed to provide users of the ArcGIS mapping platform access to satellite images as well as deep learning and analytical tools to derive insights from the images, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. DigitalGlobe said Monday it will combine …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 8, 2017 — Japan’s meteorological agency has released the first photo captured by the Harris-built (NYSE: HRS) imager onboard the country’s Himawari-9 weather satellite, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Advanced Himawari Imager is equipped with 11 additional spectral bands and a higher resolution to help bolster the quality, speed and …

Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed higher Thursday on strong performances by CACI International (NYSE: CACI) and Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) after both contractors reported quarterly earnings above Wall Street’s expectations. U.S. stocks in contrast ended mostly flat as investors waited Friday’s job report and weighed President Donald Trump’s comments to lawmakers …

Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has agreed to sell its government information technology services business to private equity investment firm Veritas Capital for approximately $690 million in the military radio maker’s second major divestiture over less than one month as part of its larger portfolio reshaping effort. The deal comes approximately three weeks …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 17, 2017 — Harris (NYSE: HRS) has received a three-year contract from the National Spectrum Consortium to build a narrowband configuration of the Defense Department‘s open-standard voice and data waveform, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Wednesday the narrowband mode for the Soldier Radio Waveform will work to extend the …