
The State Department has approved Kuwait’s request to buy equipment and support services for the recapitalization of 218 General Dynamics-built (NYSE: GD) Abrams M1A2 main battle tanks under a potential $1.7 billion foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government. The Defense Security Cooperation Ag...
Brooke Patterson, formerly vice president and deputy general manager of FEI Systems, has been appointed senior VP for government services at Norfolk, Virginia-based healthcare management and information technology consulting firm ARDX. ARDX said Tuesday that Patterson will oversee the company’s efforts to expand and implement he...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2016 Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has set a Dec. 16 launch date for the first batch of the company’s next-generation communication satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Ten initial NEXT satellites will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California into low-earth orbit via&n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 1, 2016 Wanda Gamble, vice president of business development at Battelle‘s health and analytics unit, has stated that the nonprofit science and research organization works to adapt to major healthcare and public health trends. “We want to align to those [healthcare] challenges and trends as i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 1, 2016 Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) is set to hire the majority of the Boeing (NYSE: BA) team that provides operations and maintenance services for the former’s satellites as part of a relationship restructure between the two companies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The firms will also sign...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has received a potential 10-year, $149 million contract to provide new human resource and time and management systems for General Services Administration personnel and external customers. The company will develop self-service HR and T&A systems that GSA customers will be able to access with mobile platforms a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 29, 2016 Matt Desch, Iridium (Nasdaq: IRDM) CEO, announced in a Twitter post Nov. 21 that the stage 1 booster of SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket has been delivered to California to support the launch of 10 Iridium satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Ars Technica reported Nov. 21 SpaceX has indicated I...