The U.S. Air Force has selected KBR for a $58.1 million follow-on sustaining engineering task order to help the service branch identify new approaches to maintain air traffic control and landing systems. Under the five-year award, KBR will research and analyze maintenance issues that may occur during the system life cycle such as corrosion, degradat...
A joint venture between Aerodyne Industries and KBR Wyle Services has secured a potential five-year, $531 million contract to perform systems engineering work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Aerodyne-SGT Engineering Services, also known as ASES, will help the agency develop, test and maintain ground and spacelight systems as...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 23, 2021 — Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will provide its millimeter-wave 5G network to help Robotic Research enable operations of autonomous shuttles at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego as part of the 90-day program, ExecutiveBiz reported June 3. Robotic Research’s nSight Vault storage service is planned to...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinger has announced key appointments as the technology company moves to establish two business units and restructure its data platform group into two groups – datacenter and artificial intelligence and network and edge. Greg Lavender, formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at VMware (NYSE: VMW)...
Dr. Raj G. Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, discussed innovative initiatives to strengthen the service branch’s warfighting ability and create a wholly integrated and holistic approach to its IT systems and development during his keynote speech at GovCon Wire’s Army: IT Management and Transformation Forum on Thursday. If you...
Defense industry veterans Kevin Fahey and John Tile have joined the board of directors of Enterprise Ventures Corp., a wholly owned affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corp. Edward Peretin, interim president of EVC, said in a statement published Monday the expertise of Fahey and Tile will complement the existing members of the board as EVC continue...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon). John Mengucci joined CACI as its chief operating officer and president of U.S. operations in 2012 and served in those roles ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to award eight, 18-month grants worth potentially $5.4 million combined for the development of strategies to drive innovation in the domestic manufacturing sector. NIST said Thursday it will accept proposals for the Manufacturing USA Technology Roadmaps program through Aug. 16, 2021, from inte...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business has marked the move of the U.S. Navy’s air combat training system into the production phase with the Milestone C completion. Raytheon said Wednesday Collins Aerospace also secured the first production order for the Navy’s Tactical Combat Training System Increment II, which is expected to reach initial...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) will engineer aircraft technologies and other military platforms for the U.S. Air Force’s 448th Supply Chain Management Wing under a $91.8 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported June 1. Byron Bright, president of KBR’s government solutions business, said the award gives the company ...
