Oshkosh Corp. (NYSE: OSK) has received three contract modifications worth a combined $433 million to provide heavy-duty vehicles for U.S. Army tactical operations. The Defense Department said Monday work under the contract modifications are scheduled to finish Nov. 30, 2017, and the Army will use fiscal 2016 other procurement fu...
RAND Corp. has received a potential five-year, $231.3 million contract to provide consulting support services to the U.S. Air Force through the Project Air Force federally funded research and development center. The RAND-operated FFRDC will perform research and analyses that seek to address the service branch’s space, cyber and aerial requirem...
Ryan Marsden, formerly director of program control at Whitney, Bradley & Brown, has been promoted to vice president of finance at WBB. Marsden will oversee the company™s financial planning, reporting and program control, WBB said Monday. “Since Ryan joined us two years ago, he has built the program control office into a strong support...
Boeing (NYSE:BA) has landed a $184.9 million contract from the U.S. Army for the full-rate production of Lot 7 AH-64 Apache helicopters. The Army Contracting Command awarded the contract through a solicitation with one bid received, the Defense Department said Monday. The full obligated amount is from fiscal 2016 “othe...
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has received a potential $163.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce a guidance system for the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Trident D5 MK 6 fleet ballistic missile. The lab will also perform failure verification, test, repair and recertification of Trident’s inertial measurement uni...
Nicolas Chamussy, chief of staff to Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders, will take over the role as executive vice president of the global defense contractor’s space systems unit on July 1. Airbus said Friday Chamussy will succeed Francois Auque, who will leave the company after 16 years and will remain as an adviser through July 1. He...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2016 ” The integrated Polycom (Nasdaq: PLCM) and Genband Local Session Controller technology has completed a certification test by the Joint Interoperability Test Command, ExecutiveBiz reported March 8. Genband said March 7 the two companies await the JITC final certification before their jo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2016 ” Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) will provide the Voice Communications System for the 21st Century platform to NATS, ExecutiveBiz reported March 9. Harris said March 8 the voice over Internet protocol communications platform contract aims to support air traffic management services in the U.K. through the install...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has entered into a public-private partnership with Dominion Virginia Power and the government of Virginia to build a facility that will work to provide solar energy to the state, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Dominion Virginia Power said Wednesday the facility is expected to ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2016 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has built an unmanned aerial vehicle that can also operate underwater or launch from the sea, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The lab said Thursday it built a prototype of the Corrosion Resistant Aerial Covert Unmanned Nautical System ...
