L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has secured a potential $350M contract to help the U.S. Air Force train the military service’s F-16 pilots. The company said Tuesday it will serve as the prime contractor on the F-16 Simulators Training Program that consolidates previous weapons and tactics, trainer advanced sustainment and training system...
The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) has agreed to purchase StandardAero from Veritas Capital for an undisclosed sum. The Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm said Tuesday it expects to close the deal by the end of the first quarter of calendar year 2019, pending regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based St...
Kathryn Woodward, formerly senior director of business development at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has been appointed a director of business development at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services unit, G2XChange ETC reported Tuesday. She has led GDIT’s efforts to identify business opportu...
Phil Thiel, a more than 35-year consulting industry veteran, has been promoted to an executive vice president role at Dewberry. He will oversee Dewberry’s client engagement efforts in the federal sector and continue to manage its national geospatial and technology services business, the company said Friday. œPhil™s experience in mana...
A joint venture of American Systems and Millennium Engineering and Integration will compete for engineering and technical support service task orders under NASA™s potential eight-year, $264M contract. New Horizons Aeronautics will deliver services in support of the agency™s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., American Syst...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 18, 2018 ” David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) public sector business in North America, has cautioned federal agencies to check for potential cyber vulnerabilities in open source code before they move to adopt such software, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 4. Egts wrote in a Nextgov opinion piec...
Rob Roy, public sector chief technology officer at Micro Focus Government Solutions, has said information technology modernization offers agencies an opportunity to make incremental changes to address cybersecurity risks. Roy wrote that agencies should consider alternatives to an all-or-nothing type of encryption, which could provide hackers a ...
President Donald Trump is expected this week to order the creation of a new combatant command that would focus on space, CNN reported Monday. Vice President Mike Pence is set to visit Tuesday the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Pentagon this week to talk about the administration™s plan for a new space force....
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan™s speech at a National Defense Industrial Association-sponsored briefing on hypersonics. Shanahan said Thursday at the NDIA event that hypersonic technologies need to be operationalized. œThis is about industrial...
Philip Kenul, a former director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s homeland security office and head of the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, has been named a consultant of ECS‘ science and engineering division. The retired NOAA Corps rear admiral will provide research, strategic development ...
