PAE‘s (Nasdaq: PAE) applied technologies unit has secured a potential $402 million contract to help NASA operate and maintain the Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA said Wednesday the company will also support Johnson engineering and construction projects and provide management support to the Sonny Carter Training Facility and Ellington Fie...
OpenGate Capital has wrapped up its $200 million acquisition of the ScioTeq and Treality Simulation Visual Systems businesses from TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG). TransDigm first announced in March the transaction to sell its two units that offer visualization platforms intended for defense, security and air traffic control applications. The Cleveland-...
Christopher Kubasik, most recently vice chair, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and a three-time Wash100 Award winner, has succeeded William Brown as CEO of the Melbourne, Florida-based aerospace and defense contractor as part of the L3 Technologies-Harris merger agreement announced in October 2018. William ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 30, 2021 — Shaun Bierweiler, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Riverbed Technology, said the company and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have more than 12 years of collaborative work focused on providing the public sector with offerings developed to “enable the peak performance and pr...
The U.S. Navy has awarded eight companies six-year contracts worth $72.6 million combined to provide lifecycle, modernization and in-service engineering support for the service’s Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) guided-missile destroyers. The Naval Sea Warfare Center Philadelphia Division launched a competitive procurement process and received eight o...
Advanced Technology International will help the U.S. Navy establish and run a new multi-sector consortium aimed at fostering the development and maturation of naval technologies for defending against future threats in maritime environments. The Maritime Sustainment Technology and Innovation Consortium will support studies to augment the Navy in the ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 28, 2021 — Tim Rod, chief technology officer of Red River, said security and software-defined networking technologies came into play when agencies shifted to remote work environments due to the pandemic, ExecutiveBiz reported June 10. “I think [secure access service edge] is really taking a leading role in helping age...
Patrick Markus, a more than two-decade government contracting industry veteran, has been appointed general manager of BlueHalo’s cyber and intelligence business sector. In his new capacity, Markus will lead strategic efforts intended to drive the sector’s growth, BlueHalo said Thursday. He previously served as a vice president at Dovel Techn...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a five-year, $194.3 million task order to help U.S. Air Force researchers analyze and verify the integrity of very small electronic devices. The company said Thursday it will provide best practices for designing digital and analog systems and develop methods to detect counterfeit microelectronic products as part of the S...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential $344.4 million sole-source contract to update MK-15 close-in weapon systems for the U.S. Navy and South Korea. The company’s missiles and defense business will modernize the radar-guided gun systems and provide associate hardware to customers as part of the firm-fixed-price contract, th...
