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...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) will offer security services for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, based on geospatial data and satellite imagery, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. DigitalGlobe said Thursday the offering includes the Basemap+Daily imagery subscription service...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) will update and integrate the U.S. Air Force‘s KC-135 aircrew training platforms to the service branch™s Distributed Training Center Network, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the contract covers updates to the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” Saudi Arabia’s proposed $154.9 million purchase of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) upgraded MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons Systems has received approval from the U.S. government, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the potential foreign mili...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 16, 2016 ” CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) will provide its API Management platform to the U.K. meteorological office to support cloud- and mobile-based weather data services, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the technology works to bolster data privacy and customer experience and facili...
Gregg Einfalt, former president of ASRC Federal‘s engineering and aerospace operating group, has joined Reston, Virginia-based government services contractor Lentech as president. Einfalt will oversee Lentech’s efforts to grow its footprint in the civil and defense engineering and technical markets, the company said Feb. 1. “G...
