TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2018 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) has expanded the coverage area of its LTE services for first responders by more than 50K square miles in a move to bolster the FirstNet public safety communications network, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the additional LTE coverage develope...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2018 ” Phil Carrai, president of the Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) technology and training solutions division, has highlighted the growing importance of ground systems amid recent trends in the increasingly competitive satellite telecommunications industry, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has landed a spot on a potential $501M contract vehicle from the Department of Defense to support joint force development programs. The company said Friday it will compete for task orders to provide cybersecurity, planning, execution and analysis services for Joint Chi...
David Rowland, a 35-year Accenture (NYSE: ACN) veteran, has been appointed to serve as CEO of the global professional services contractor on an interim basis. He succeeds Pierre Nanterme, who resigned the post due to health issues and intends to support his successor in an advisory role, the company said Friday. Rowland became CFO in...
Robert Cleave, a 13-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and founder of satellite operator Xtar, has been named chief revenue officer of space launch company Vector. He will lead a line of business as well as budgeting, customer acquisition and partnership efforts in his new position, Vector said Thursday. The three-d...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 11, 2018 ” Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of U.S. public sector at Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), anticipates that 2019 will see the federal government adopt a policy that is aimed at managing data at the edge as it seeks to explore artificial intelligence and machine learning, ExecutiveBiz reported...
Textron (NYSE: TXT) closed its acquisition of Waterboro, Maine-based robotic ground vehicle maker Howe & Howe Technologies on Dec. 17, Defense News reported Thursday. Textron announced its intent to buy Howe & Howe in October 2018 in a push to expand its autonomous technology offerings across land, air and maritime d...
Thomas Gillespie, director of the Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers, has provided the agency with strategic studies and built communities of interest in areas of critical importance, including cyber operations, weapon systems and homeland defense. In September, DoD signed 15 companies to a potential nine-year, $28B contract for tech...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 10, 2018 ” Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has said she believes the challenges that women professionals encounter in the defense sector are more “aspirational” instead of institutional, as the industry sees a surge in women leaders at top ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 10, 2018 — Premier (Nasdaq: PINC), a North Carolina-based health care company, has found that patients who experience an opioid overdose account for an estimated $11.3B in total annual costs at U.S. hospitals, with 66 percent of those patients covered under the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs, Ex...
