The State Department has approved a potential $930 million foreign military sale of weapons, support equipment and services for six AH-64E Apache helicopters the Indian government intends to buy through a direct commercial sale transaction. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Lo...
Chris Pogue, a General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) veteran, has joined Maxar Technologies™ (NYSE: MAXR) MDA business as president of the newly created government division. Pogue will directly report to Mike Greenley, MDA group president, and oversee defense, enterprise information technology, Earth observation systems and government space rob...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 12, 2018 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has received a two-year contract to provide commercial internet services to members of a nonprofit coalition of U.S. research and education networks, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it participated in a competitive solicitation process for internet protocol tr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 12, 2018 ” Leidos™ (NYSE: LDOS) corporate security office in Reston, Va., has won a 2018 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Security Service, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday it is one of the 39 recipients of the award, which recognizes compa...
Mac Curtis, Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) president and CEO, led the ringing of the opening bell Monday at the New York Stock Exchange to mark the company’s launch after it completed its separation from DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) and merger with Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions. Mike Lawrie, chairman of Perspecta™s board and DXC chairma...
Securitas Electronic Security has completed its $70 million cash acquisition of the public safety and security business from Kratos Defense and Security Solutions. Eric DeMarco, president and CEO of Kratos, said in a statement released Monday the company aims to focus growth efforts in the unmanned aerial drones, missile defense, training ...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will continue to manufacture the tube-launched, optically-tracked, wireless-guided missiles through a $129.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Army. The company said Tuesday the award modifies a previously awarded $320 million contract for TOW weapons production. Kim Ernzen, vice president of Raytheon...
Deanna Grady, senior manager of federal, state and local government sales at LinkedIn Learning, has said government agencies should provide training opportunities to employees to help them develop new skills needed to facilitate citizen engagement efforts. Grady wrote that talent developers should play a key role in workforce planning initiatives an...
Chris Bauer, a more than 25-year government contracting industry veteran, has joined Valiant Integrated Services as a senior vice president and chief operating officer of the firm™s national security and mission support division. Bauer will lead the delivery of knowledge-based services such as intelligence analysis and language services as...
Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Insitu subsidiary has secured a potential multiyear, $117 million contract to provide small unmanned aircraft systems to support intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions onboard the U.S. Coast Guard‘s National Security Cutter fleet. Insitu said Monday it will help the service branch i...
