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United Technologies Corp.‘s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a $167.5 million contract to fund long-lead engine materials needed for the low-rate initial production of lot 11 F-35s. Pratt & Whitney will supply 48 F135-PW-100 fighter engines for the U.S. Air Force, four F135-PW-100s for the U.S. Na...
J.F. Taylor has won a potential $75.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support the integrated combat environment and battlespace modeling and simulation units of the the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. The military branch received two offers for the small business set-aside contract thro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 4, 2016 ” Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has stated that the U.S. military should utilize emerging electromagnetic platforms to support its technological superiority, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Matthews noted that future higher data processing systems w...
Kristin Machacek Leary, formerly senior vice president of global human resources at Alphatec Spine, has been named VP and chief HR officer at Forcepoint — the cybersecurity joint venture of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Vista Equity Partners. Forcepoint said Tuesday that Leary will be responsible for the organization’...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 1, 2016 ” Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium (Nasdaq: IRDM), has said the company hopes to see SpaceX resume launch services within the year as the investigation continues into the explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket in September, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. SpaceX has stated that it has discovered a way to...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 28, 2016 ” MILCOM 2016 is set to feature retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Earl Matthews, vice president of enterprise security services within Hewlett Packard Enterprise™s U.S. public sector business, as a speaker, GovConExecutive said Thursday. Matthews will share his insight on modernization, operat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 24, 2016 ” Battelle has backed the winning bid of a team of local government units in Ohio for a $6 million grant from the Transportation Department, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The nonprofit company will help the Dublin, Marysville and Union counties in Ohio to establish a dedicated short-range communic...
Battelle has won positions on a pair of indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth up to $182 million combined to support the Federal Highway Administration‘s highway operations, traffic management and road safety programs. The nonprofit can bid on projects that cover connected vehicles research, work zones, co...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 13, 2016 ” Battelle and the U.S. Air Force‘s Life Cycle Management Center have entered into a cooperative research-and-development agreement for the development of an anti-icing technology for aircraft, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The agreement aims to create an ice protection technology with ca...