Seven companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $248.5 million contract to provide multiple unmanned aircraft systems to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Wednesday contractors will compete for task orders covering long-range reconnaissance surveillance and medium-range mobile UAS; a government-owned tactical open ar...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 11, 2018 ” Advanced Concepts and Technologies International‘s flagship program to support the F-35 Joint Program Office is a finalist for the Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum’s “Government Project of the Year” award for 2018, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. “This is a signi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 11, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has announced that General Electric (NYSE: GE), United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) and Triumph Aerostructures will help on its proposed offering for the U.S. Navy™s MQ-25 carrier-based aerial tanker drone program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. GE and United Techn...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 11, 2018 ” Tapestry Solutions, a subsidiary of Boeing (NYSE: BA), has unveiled its Enterprise Sensor Integration software system at BAE Systems™ Nashua, New Hampshire, facility, as part of the U.K.-based firm™s efforts to modernize its manufacturing operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Boeing said Monday...
Sean Palleschi, formerly associate finance director of aerostructures division at United Technologies Corp.™s (NYSE: UTX) aerospace systems business, has joined Cubic™s (NYSE: CUB) global defense segment as vice president of financial operations and controller. Dave Buss, president of Cubic Global Defense, said in a statement publishe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 6, 2018 ” NASA™s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected SSL, a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), to design and build a critical system for spacecraft designed to perform investigative flybys to explore Jupiter™s Europa moon, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. SSL said Tuesday it will develop the Rem...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2018 ” The U.S. Air Force has awarded a Cubic (NYSE: CUB) business unit a spot on a potential 10-year, $496 million contract to study and develop communication technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said March 29 Cubic Mission Solutions will deliver research, development, test and evaluation ser...
KippsDeSanto & Co. said it believes General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) acquisition of CSRA shows the continued focus of government technology sector buyers on efforts to build up scale and expand next-generation information technology capabilities through mergers and acquisitions. General Dynamics™ IT business will realize approximately...
Six companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $25.5 billion contract to help maintain the U.S. Army‘s aircraft and support equipment deployed primarily outside the continental U.S. Work also covers minor modification, supply chain management and personnel support in various theaters of operation, the Defense Department sa...
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW) has closed its $212.5 million cash acquisition of the Dresser-Rand government business from Siemens in a move to expand aftermarket support for the U.S. Navy and footprint on the service branch™s nuclear ships. Dresser-Rand will mainly focus its sales efforts on the naval defense market and wil...
