TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has upgraded six B-52 bomber planes of the U.S. Air Force with increased capacity for internal weapons, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the upgraded internal weapons bay launchers can load up to eight Joint Direct Attack Munitions. “The upgrades t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space systems segment, said the first GPS III satellite has completed a thermal vacuum test as part of the U.S. Air Force™s program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Space News reported Wednesday the test works to id...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” American Systems has received a Maturity Level 3 quality appraisal under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the CMMI-DEV 1.3 appraisal covers process management, engineering, project ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” Serco Inc. has received a three-year extension to continue to compete for task orders under the potential $1.4 billion Global Installation Contract the U.S. Navy awarded in 2011, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday the contract extension provides for continued C4ISR systems s...
The U.S. Navy has awarded CH2M Hill a potential five-year, $240 million contract to provide architect-engineering services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command‘s Atlantic area of responsibility. NAVFAC Atlantic awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive procurement process with three bids re...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has received a $159 million task order to standardize the U.S. Army‘s tactical and data network systems in an effort to help soldiers connect to the network. The company will work to integrate and streamline hardware, software, security and tactical network initialization tools for the Army’s Project Direc...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2016 ” The U.S. Army has used General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) two-channel AN/PRC-155 Mobile User Objective System manpack radio during a demonstration of the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) MUOS satellite network, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. “These radios conn...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2016 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract to provide its LN-200S inertial measurement unit for Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) LM 300 satellite bus, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Northrop said Tuesday the IMU works to support vehicle control systems navigation and a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2016 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) will provide an Internet Protocol service to the Federal Communications Commission to support mobile and cloud-based applications under a five-year contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. AT&T said Tuesday it aims to establish a connection between data centers a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2016 ” David Young, vice president of federal government sales at Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT), told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Tuesday he believes government agencies will transition to more service-level agreements and company-owned/company-operated network environments. “It is inte...
