Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has landed a potential $146.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to repair 35 items used on the UH-1Y utility helicopter and the AH-1Z attack helicopter. The Defense Department said Thursday the firm-fixed-price contract contains a two-year base period that will run thr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, was a presenter at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 9th Defense Industrial Discussions event where he discussed the company’s cybersecurity efforts, GovCon Executive reported Friday. ACT I said Niggel pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Robert Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral‘s government systems business, has said the pending acquisition by parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates of DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) would enable MDA to build up support for intelligence and d...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Riverbed Technology has showcased its software-defined wide area network and visibility platforms for the cloud at Amazon Web Services‘ (Nasdaq: AMZN) Public Sector Summit held this week in Washington, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Included in Riverbed’s exhibit were the St...
The U.S. and Qatar have signed a potential $12 billion deal to supply Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F-15QA fighter jets to the Arab country, Defense News reported Wednesday. A spokesman for the Defense Department said Defense Secretary James Mattis and Khalid al-Attiyah, Qatar™s defense affairs minister, signed a letter to facilitate the aircraft sal...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Vencore‘s technical director for analytics is set to receive the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s first-ever Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence for his research and other contributions to help advance exploration programs, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said June 7 ASF ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has awarded participants from schools in California and New Jersey as the winners in a video challenge to design part of a spacecraft that would bring astronauts to Mars, GovCon Executive reported June 7. The company said June 6 the challenge is part of its...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) has partnered with a ViON subsidiary to integrate their technologies to offer big data analytics in an as-a-service model to commercial and government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. ViON’s Ascolta business said Thursday it will utilize the Hortonwor...
Laurence Grayer, a former senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of DynCorp International, has been named VP, general counsel and chief compliance officer at Washington, D.C.-based professional services firm Creative Associates International. Grayer will oversee Creative’s legal affairs and corporate...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will divide the network and space systems and military aircraft segments within its defense, space and security business unit into four smaller entities in a move that will take effect July 1. Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing BDS, said Tuesday the reorganization is part of the company™s efforts to ramp up the competitiven...
