Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential four-year, $207.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the full-rate production of 51 lot 90 Harpoon weapon systems for Egypt, South Korea and Brazil through a foreign military sales agreement. The sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract also covers the production of spares and related components for the ...
Steve Hoover, CEO at Xerox‘s (NYSE: XRX) PARC subsidiary, has been named chief technology officer at the Norwalk, Connecticut-based document management and outsourcing company in a move that takes effect Jan. 1, 2017. Xerox said Wednesday Hoover will report to incoming Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson and succeed Sophie Vandebroek, who i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2016 ” BAE Systems‘ U.S. arm will help engineer and install new submarine weapon systems under a potential five-year, $368 million U.S. Navy contract awarded in October, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The contract will also involve information technology support, engineering services and test equipmen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2016 ” A new Riverbed Technology survey has revealed that a majority of federal employees believe latency issues due to bandwidth-intensive applications negatively affect agency productivity, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. One in three federal employee respondents have stated that agencies take more than 24 hours to...
Facility and logistics services provider Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) will continue to prioritize information technology and network communications as areas of pursuit for potential growth as the company looks ahead to 2017, its newly-appointed CEO has told GovCon Wire. Colorado Springs-based government services contractor Vectrus has $1.5 billion in bi...
NTT Data (NYSE: NTT) has landed a five-year, $85 million contract to continue to provide independent verification and validation services to the Customs and Border Protection‘s office of acquisition. The company said Tuesday it will independently verify and validate whether border management products and systems ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 20, 2016 ” The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 certifications for nine Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) operating system cryptographic modules, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The FIPS certifications validate the compliance of the native cryptographic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 20, 2016 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) will provide a high-speed virtual private network to help NASA update the transmission capacity of the Deep Space Network telecommunications system, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The VPN will work to connect the network’s radio antennas around the world, support bandwi...
Karen Wheeler, a senior vice president and chief procurement officer of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed to succeed Kimberly Admire as the company’s chief human resources officer in a transition scheduled to take effect Feb. 4, 2017. SAIC said Monday Wheeler will oversee em...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se2yAX98aaI Marines with Task Force Recon, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, participate in a force on force exercise during Steel Knight 17 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Dec. 6-12, 2016. Task Force Recon is a combination of different reconnaissance e...
