Reston, Virginia-based contractor Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) has agreed to a merger with the government information technology and services businesses of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) under a $5 billion, tax-free Reverse Morris Trust transaction to create the government services industry’s largest publicly-traded contractor by revenu...
Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) has agreed to buy Christie Digital Systems™ Matrix series of projectors for an undisclosed sum in an effort to complement its training projectors and simulation offerings to aviation and military clients. The deal covers Christie™s Matrix SIM and Matrix StIM projectors and other software tools and is expec...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun its search for an anti-submarine bistatic sonar system that works to maintain a ship’s stealth while in operation, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes DARPA seeks companies to develop active sonar sources, signal processing and undersea communications ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 25, 2016 ” Ensco aims to provide project delivery services to the Australian rail transport industry through its newly opened branch office in Perth, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Wednesday the expansion is an effort to meet demand in Australia’s railway industry for automated track in...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 25, 2016 ” Honeywell™s (NYSE: HON) JetWave hardware will provide Internet connectivity aboard the Boeing (NYSE: BA) 757 aircraft through Inmarsat™s Global Xpress broadband satellite network after receiving the Federal Aviation Administration™s approval, ExecutiveBiz reporte...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 25, 2016 ” ICF International (Nasdaq: ICFI) will provide event management services to the European Commission under a $15 million contract to support regional and urban policy programs in the European Union, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Friday its ICF Mostra division in Brussels will organize ev...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 25, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has offered tools that work to support analysis of Next Generation Weather Radar data on the Amazon Simple Storage Service cloud platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Jan. 6 WeatherPipe and the Amazon Simple Notification Service aim t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 25, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received recognition from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center as its large business prime contractor of the year for the company’s work with small businesses on JSC programs, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Raytheon said Friday it currently provides support for the Neutra...
The General Services Administration has asked shortlisted contractors to submit proposals for the construction of a consolidated FBI headquarters building that will receive $1.4 billion in funds under President Barack Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2017. The FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project is part of GSA’s program to comply w...
A Textron (NYSE: TXT) subsidiary has received a $97.1 million contract modification to retrofit the U.S. Army‘s Shadow unmanned aircraft system data link. Textron’s AAI Corp. will perform work in Hunt Valley, Maryland, through Oct. 31, 2018, as part of the full-rate production of the UAS’ seventh lot, the Defense Department sa...
