The First Responder Network Authority has extended the deadline for interested vendors to submit their final bids on the agency’s national public-safety broadband network project from April 29 to May 13. FirstNet said Friday it also released a batch of responses to the more than 400 questions that the agency has received from in...
The GovCon Index climbed significantly today closing at 72.232 up 1.114 percent, pulling itself out of correction. All three markets — the Dow Jones Industrial, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite — all showed robust gains approaching 1.50 percent, with WTI crude oil closing up 6.21 percent to $31.48. As reported by CNBC, Honeywell...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) a potential six-year, $37 million contract to provide logistics and repair services for the military branch’s subscale aerial target system. Kratos said Monday it will also supply consumable and peculiar reparable spares for BQM-167A fligh...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” TeleCommunication Systems (Nasdaq: TSYS) has expanded the coverage of its text-to-911 public safety messaging service to at least 700 answering points across 38 U.S. states and territories, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. TCS said Thursday it targets 100 million wireless subscribers to the ser...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will likely hold the prime role in a teaming agreement with CAE (NYSE: CAE) and Alenia Aermacchi to pursue the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X pilot trainer contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Defense News reported Tuesday Raytheon will replace General Dynamics (NYSE...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), has said the company uses deep-learning and crowdsourcing tools to analyze satellite imagery, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. GCN reported Wednesday that Frazier has pointed to MrGeo, NVIDIA graphics process...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) will help update the Defense Department‘s network gateway under an $8.57 million task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday the award works to provide distributed tactical commu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Keith Salisbury, vice president for U.S. federal sales at Pivotal Software, has said modern “cloud-native” applications work to help transform federal IT amid the current budget environment. Salisbury wrote in a guest piece posted Wednesday on ExecutiveBiz that while government has mirrored the...
A team comprising ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) and Jadwalean International Operations & Management Co. has been awarded a potential five-year, $175 million contract to provide F-15 fleet advisory and technical support services to Saudi Arabia. The companies will deploy personnel in Saudi Arabia to support the country’s F-15 sy...
CAE (NYSE: CAE) has agreed to acquire the commercial aviation training business of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for an undisclosed sum with no timeframe given for the transaction’s projected closure. Montreal-based CAE said Monday said it seeks to expand its customer-installed base of commercial flight si...
