TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 17, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has been selected to help develop the high-impact baseline for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program as part of a pilot initiative, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Separate company blog posts published Tuesday indicated that the pilot works to support Micros...
Thales Group has closed its acquisition of San Jose, California-based data protection technology vendor Vormetric after the French conglomerate obtained regulatory clearance for the estimated $424 million transaction. Patrice Caine, CEO of Thales, said in a statement issued Thursday the company will integrate Vormetric into its...
The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies spots on a potential five-year, $1.32 billion contract to help maintain amphibious warfare and surface combatant ships that dock in San Diego. The Defense Department said Wednesday that BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) unit NASSCO and Continental Maritime of San Diego, a subsidia...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $573 million contract modification to produce additional Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles for the U.S. Air Force. The award exercises options for lot 30 of AMRAAM and related items, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Raytheon will manufacture the missiles in Tucson, Arizona, through Feb. 28, 2019...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a potential three-year, $197.6 million contract modification to carry out computer program baseline development work on the U.S. Navy‘s Aegis combat systems. The contract also covers design, testing, systems engineering, delivery and integration work on technology insertion-relat...
NASA will move forward to contract negotiations for the potential $104 million second phase of its Small Business Innovation Research program for future deep space missions. The space agency has selected 137 research and technology proposals from 117 U.S. small businesses and research organizations out of 323 responses received for the SBIR program,...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 16, 2016 — Tony Frazier, DigitalGlobe senior vice president for government solutions business, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic™s Wash100 list of most influential leaders for his work in open source partnership. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector leader...
Executive Mosaic, Tysons Corner, VA March 16, 2016 — Mason, Noblis senior vice president for national security and intelligence, has been inducted into Executive Mosaic’s 2016 Wash100 list of the most influential leaders in GovCon for the second year in a row for his role in national security and intelligence community. Th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) will provide cloud services to facilitate the migration of the Government Publishing Office‘s Integrated Library System Web portals to the cloud, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. GPO said Thursday AWS’ cloud infrastructure will host GPO’s public-fac...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 ” Mike Tanner, president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems‘ federal business, has urged government agencies to adopt software-defined networks and tiered storage tools to address big data challenges, Executive Gov reported March 7. Tanner wrote in a guest piece published March 3 on FedTech that SDN works to...
