The Defense Department has finalized a “unilateral contract” worth more than $6.1 billion to fund Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) low-rate initial production of 57 lot 9 F-35 fighter jets, Reuters reported Wednesday. Mike Stone writes the deal covers 42 F-35As for the U.S. Air Force, Japan, Israel a...
Military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has agreed to acquire government services contractor Camber Corp. for $380 million in a move to diversify revenue and add new information technology work with U.S. defense, intelligence and civilian agencies. Huntington Ingalls’ move for Camber comes in a year where other ...
Alan Stewart, former chief financial officer of Vistronix, has joined Systems Planning and Analysis as senior vice president and CFO at the Alexandria, Virginia-based professional services contractor. SPA said Friday that Stewart holds experience in positions related to business management, tax, investor relations, finance, accounting, mer...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 1, 2016 ” Inmarsat and Honeywell (NYSE: HON) have entered into a partnership in an effort to provide satellite communication services that will work to connect military users across the world, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Honeywell said Monday the partnership aims to deliver high-speed, high-bandwidt...
Altamira Technologies has bought engineering services contractor APG Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to strengthen existing customer relationships and expand geographic reach across the intelligence, defense and aerospace markets. APG works with customer agencies to help them manage complex information...
Jeff McCray, former vice president of international business development at BAE Systems, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) to serve in the same role and lead a new office that HII will open in Canberra, Australia. He will report to Mike Smith, executive VP for strategy and development at HII, and oversee the development of...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded in tight range Monday to record its third straight monthly decline with a second week of quarterly financial reports from GCI companies set to begin Tuesday morning. U.S. stocks also struggled for direction Monday in the start of the final full trading week before the presidential election Nov. ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 31, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has said the company’s Global Xpress commercial satellite network could help address the mobile needs of government users, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Global Xpress is a commercial Ka-band network designed to work with government military sa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 31, 2016 ” Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), has said DigitalGlobe’s acquisition of geospatial information services contractor The Radiant Group serves to support the former’s services business expansion efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported...
David Trulio, former director of operations at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) international sales organization, has been appointed vice president for international government affairs and operations and regional executive for Latin America at Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) overseas business. Trulio will work to develop the strategy to grow ...
