Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has secured a three-year, $201.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long lead parts and materials needed to produce lot 14 propulsion systems for the F-35 aircraft. The modification combines orders from the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department ...
American Electronic Warfare Associates has won a potential five-year, $99.7M contract to develop, integrate and maintain battlespace simulation tools for the U.S. Navy. AMEWAS will help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division create warfare scenarios, and battlespace entity models as well as provide customer support for delivered products, th...
Twist Bioscience Corporation (TWST) became the first to implement Battelle™s ThreatSEQ web service DNA screening platform to detect and characterize sequences of concern in genomic data, supplementing its internal biosecurity efforts, TWST announced on Tuesday. œWe have spent decades working with and characterizing biothreats to support gl...
The Defense Logistics Agency awarded three companies contracts worth potentially $580.5M combined to provide storage batteries to the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Each firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has two base years and three option years, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Work is slated to occur th...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has landed a spot on a potential 10-year, $980M contract vehicle to provide technology platforms in support the U.S. Army’s electronic and cyber warfare missions. The R4 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will serve as a means for the service branch to order new cyber tools as well as systems moderniza...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 25, 2019 ” ST Engineering is moving to prepare its Bronco all-terrain tracked carrier for international availability and has sent a variant of the platform to a tire and vehicle testing facility in Finland to assess its performance in cold weather and heavy snow, ExecutiveBiz reported March 13. EDR On-Line reported...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has appointed three executives to new leadership roles as part of efforts to build up the company™s partnerships and presence worldwide. Marc Allen, president of Boeing International, will transition to the role of senior vice president at Boeing and president of Embraer partnership and group operations, the Chicago-based...
Two Battelle employees have helped the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases conduct training for local researchers and teams responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Battelle said Monday its staff took part in a 16-day program aimed to train Congolese researchers at the Institut National de Recherche Bio...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, with his fifth consecutive 2019 Wash100 Award on Thursday. The Wash100 award, in its sixth annual year, recognizes the most influential and impactful executives in the GovCon industry, as selected by the Executive Mosaic organization in combinat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 14, 2019 ” Mitre has built a database that works to curate public information on cyber threats and methods with the goal to provide organizations a platform where they can get data that could help them develop defense strategies for digital infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Federal News Network re...
