United Technologies Corp.™s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has landed a $266M contract to sustain F-35 aircraft of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, non-Defense Department users and foreign military sales customers. The Navy-awarded contract provides for non-recurring sustainment support; dep...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 11, 2018 ” Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM), has said the company is looking to help get Aireon‘s aircraft monitoring service live with the potential completion of the Iridium NEXT satellite network by the end of the year, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 4. NASASpaceflight.com reported...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 10, 2018 ” In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic partnership with Contrast Security with the goal to help government clients protect software applications from cyber attacks with the use of innovative technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. IQT said Thursday it invested in the security technology ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Textron™s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary a $509.8M contract modification to produce and deliver 29 twin-engine attack helicopters as part of the U.S. Marine Corps™ H-1 modernization effort. Bell Helicopter will provide lot 15 AH-1Z new build aircraft, as well as obtain long-lead items and components f...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 23, 2018 ” AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has partnered with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to build a battery energy storage system that will work to reduce energy consumption and associated expenses at Fort Carson in Colorado, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The team will utilize Lockheed’s GridStar Lithium energy storag...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 22, 2018 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) CEO Matt Desch has said in an earnings call the company plans to take a 10-year “capex holiday” after it completes the $3B Iridium NEXT satellite constellation this year, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 7. Space News reported Aug. 6 that the news comes after ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 17, 2018 ” A Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE: NOC) command-and-control system for the U.S. Army‘s air defense assets has completed testing of its long-range network management capability during a five-week soldier checkout event, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Integrated Air and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 1, 2018 ” Iridium Communications™ (Nasdaq: IRDM) Aireon subsidiary has partnered with Airbus™ defense and space business to provide space-based aircraft tracking data to the latter™s recently launched airspace analytics platform, ExecutiveBiz reported July 20. Aireon said July 19 it will supply Auto...
Matthew Schneider, senior director of government, education and healthcare at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said agencies seeking to modernize their information technology infrastructure should know more about the security and behavior of their applications and eliminate apps™ reliance on the physical infrastructure. œWhen an appl...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 23, 2018 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) helped detect and counter hacking attempts against three congressional candidates earlier this year and worked with the U.S. government to shut down the domain used and block the phishing messages, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Politico reported Thursday that Tom Burt, vice presid...
