Brett Gerry, formerly vice president and general counsel of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) commercial airplanes division, has been appointed as president of the company™s business operations in Japan. Gerry will succeed George Maffeo, who will retire from Boeing, and report to Boeing International President Marc Allen, Boeing said Thursday. As ...
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has completed its purchase of spacecraft and satellite equipment producer Com Dev International through an approximately $345 million transaction. Tim Mahoney, president of Honewell’s aerospace segment, said Thursday the acquisition is part of a push to bolster the company’s satellite connectivity efforts ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $96.04 million contract modification to modify the control segment of the U.S. Air Force™s global positioning system. The control segment works to operate all launched GPS III satellites before they migrate to the new operational control system, the Defense Department said Thursday. Lockheed will ...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has won a four-year, $46.7 million contract to support the U.S. Navy‘s International Programs Office and the Naval Supply Systems Command’s weapons systems support division. The NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center in Norfolk, Virginia, received two offers for the single-award contract covering securit...
Progeny Systems has secured a potential five-year, $45.4 million contract to provide sustainment and follow-on support for the Department of the Navy Tasking, Records and Consolidated Knowledge Enterprise Repository system. The U.S. Navy awarded the sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under phase three of the Small Business...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 4, 2016 ” The Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Space Launch System will carry the Orion unmanned spacecraft and 13 CubeSats to deep space in 2018, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. NASA said Wednesday two of the CubeSats that will be onboard the SLS are the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Skyfire and Morehead ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 4, 2016 ” BAE Systems has selected AMI Metals, a subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. (NYSE: RS), to provide aluminum plates in support of the F-35, Hawk and Typhoon programs under a $100 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Reliance said Tuesday the contrac...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 4, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will build a new S-band satellite based on the A2100 design for delivery to Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. in 2019, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Lockheed said Wednesday the future JCSAT-17 will be the eighth satellite that SJC ordered from Lockheed and w...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 4, 2016 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has named two former military officials as senior fellows at the lab, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Johns Hopkins APL said Tuesday the new senior fellows are Paul Stockton, a former assistant secretary for homeland defense and Am...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 4, 2016 ” Allen Adler of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Waguih Ishak of Corning (NYSE: GLW) have received appointments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s visiting committee on advanced technology, ExecutiveGov reported Wednesday. NIST said Tuesday Adler, who is vice president of ...
