Cray has signed a $146M contract with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory™s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to build a supercomputing system intended for large-scale simulations and data analyses. The Perlmutter supercomputer is designed to help NERSC researchers examine data sets from scientific experiments...
Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has received a potential five-year, $564M task order to continue to provide integration and maintenance services for the Defense Department™s mission-critical software and hardware worldwide. The company said Tuesday the task order awarded by the General Services Administration™s Federal Acquisition Service covers su...
Frank Dimina, who joined Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) in 2016, has been appointed VP of the technology firm’s public sector arm, GovCon Wire has learned. In his current role, Dimina oversees Splunk’s federal, state, local and higher education businesses. He previously managed the company’s work with federal civilian clients as area V...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 30, 2018 ” Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has said the company will continue to work with the government to help shape the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies and support efforts to protect the U.S. against threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. He wrote in...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 29, 2018 ” Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) Radiant Solutions and SSL subsidiaries will collaborate to build a prototype space-based missile detection layer for the Missile Defense Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 3. SSL will lead the team, which also includes Systems Engineering Associates, as it works t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 29, 2018 ” Al Whitmore, president of the intelligence and security sector of BAE Systems Inc., has said the company aims to build on its internal research and development activities to fulfill work under a multi-award contract with the Defense Department, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 2. The company said Oct. 1 it w...
Textron (NYSE: TXT) is acquiring Waterboro, Maine-based robotic ground vehicle manufacturer Howe & Howe Technologies for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand autonomous technology offerings across land, sea and air domains. The industrial conglomerate said Thursday Howe & Howe’s vehicles and applications will complemen...
The U.S. Navy has awarded L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) separate contracts to test radio frequency jamming technologies and provide related technical data. L3 and Northrop will receive up to $35.8M and $35.2M in contract funds, respectively, to perform work on Increment 2 of the Navy’s Next Generat...
Grace Lee, former senior vice president of global human resources at biotechnology firm Charles River Laboratories (NYSE: CRL), has been appointed chief HR and diversity officer at at Cubic (NYSE: CUB). Her appointment is effective Oct. 29 and she will oversee Cubic’s diversity strategy as well as talent management, diversity st...
A new PwC report says the total value of mergers and acquisitions in the global aerospace and defense industry was $5.9B in the third quarter of 2018, down 49 percent from the same period last year. PwC said the number of M&A deals in the A&D sector plummeted 18 percent to 89 transactions in Q3 2018 and...
