TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2016 ” In-Q-Tel will help Cylance upgrade its CylancePROTECT system, which works to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to prevent cyberattacks, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. “Our partnership with Cylance is intended to further enhance how artificial intelligence and related technologies preve...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for U.S. government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said “satcom as a service” can help the military drive value from satellite communications technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 17, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will decide in the coming weeks if it will pursue a company investment to self-fund the continued production of F/A-18 fighter aircraft, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Reuters reported Friday that Dan Gillian, head of Boeing’s F/A-18E/F and EA-18G programs, has i...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has received a potential three-year, $115 million task order to help integrate applications for the Department of Veterans Affairs to manage the agency’s interactions with customers. The order covers application integration, software development, operations, maintenance and pro...
Rolls-Royce has received a potential $117.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to supply 50 AE1107C turboshaft engines and related spares for integration with the U.S. Marine Corps™ and Japanese government™s fleet of MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command awarded the contract modification to exercise an opt...
FCi Federal has appointed seven new executives to its management team in an effort to boost its expansion in the government services sector. Jeffrey Leong, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former chief financial officer at a business unit of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), will serve as the company™s CFO, FCi Federal said Tuesday. Claude...
Three companies have been awarded spots on a potential five-year, $2.6 billion contract to perform maintenance, repair and modernization work on U.S. Navy surface combatant and amphibious warfare vessels. BAE Systems, General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary and Marine Hydraulics International will help maintain six c...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has asked industry to submit technical proposals for the construction of a command-and-control facility that will house the Army Cyber Command and an operations facility for the cyber protection team in Fort Gordon, Georgia. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday it plans to award up...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is set to offer Microsoft Software & Systems Academy courses at five U.S. Army bases to help active-duty and former soldiers transition to civilian careers in IT, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Chris Cortez, vice president of military affairs at Microsoft, wrote i...
The Government Accountability Office has denied the Boeing (NYSE: BA)-Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) team’s protest of the U.S. Air Force‘s award of the highly-classified Long Range Strike Bomber contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) in a ruling that could give way for engineering and development work to start. Boeing and Lockheed hold a...
