The U.S. Navy has awarded Austal USA a $248.9 million contract modification to definitize the procurement of long lead-time materials as well as to commence design and construction of the military branch’s 11th and 12th Expeditionary Fast Transport vessels. The EPF vessels will be built to transport personnel, supplies and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 15, 2016 ” Hughes Network Systems and Airbus‘ defense and space segment have expanded their partnership to offer the HM System satellite networking technology and Skynet satellite communications service in the defense market, ExecutiveBiz said Wednesday. The companies aim to help global military customer...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 15, 2016 ” A subsidiary of Vencore has landed $17 million in contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform work under two technical areas in the Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems program, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday Venco...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 15, 2016 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) will continue to provide network services to federal agencies after it secured extensions to its Networx Universal and Networx Enterprise contracts with the General Services Administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the extensions run through&n...
David Clark, vice president of business operations at SC3, has been promoted to chief financial officer at the Alexandria, Virginia-based federal technology and consulting services contractor. Clark will oversee SC3™s financial and corporate functions in the areas of procurement, accounting, pricing, financial analysis and contracts, the c...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 15, 2016 ” The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a Security Technical Implementation Guide for VMware‘s (NYSE: VMW) NSX software-defined networking system to validate its compliance with Defense Department cybersecurity policies, standards, architectures, security controls and valid...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 14, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has received approximately $91.2 million in contracts from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and Austria’s armed forces to provide aircrew training services and simulation system updates, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday it will provide training on the M...
Accenture™s federal services business has hired Gus Hunt, formerly chief architect for hedge fund company Bridgewater Associates, to lead the company™s federal cybersecurity practice. Hunt, who has also served as chief technology officer of CIA, will be in charge of Accenture’s portfolio of cyber hunting, incident resp...
Hawthorne, California-based OSI Systems (Nasdaq: OSIS) has bought inspection systems provider American Science and Engineering for approximately $269 million, or $37.00 per share in cash. The transaction adds AS&E’s screening technology platforms into OSI Systems’ portfolio of security offerings suc...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 12, 2016 ” In-Q-Tel and Zoomdata have partnered to address the big data management requirements of the intelligence community using the latter’s visual analytics platform under a new strategic investment and technology agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The agreement works to up...
