TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2017 ” Jennifer Chronis, general manager for Defense Department programs at Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), has said DoD can leverage security as one of many benefits in the adoption of cloud platforms, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. She wrote in an article published March that other advantages to c...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has bought autonomous unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturer OceanServer Technology for an undisclosed sum, a move that Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese said marks L3’s expansion push into the UUV market. Fall River, Massachusetts-based OceanServer builds lightweight UUVs for military, commercial and int...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 4, 2017 ” SoBran has named Shengmin Sang, a scientist at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University™s Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, as the grand prize winner in the Innovation for Impact contest, GovCon Executive reported Monday. The company said Friday&...
Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a potential five-year subcontract from Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) to provide engineering services to the Naval Air Systems Command in support of the F-35 joint strike fighter program office. Booz Allen awarded the subcontract under a task order the company received through the U....
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments unit has secured a $133.6 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to obtain materials needed for the production of M992A3 carrier ammunition-tracked vehicles and M109A7 howitzers. The Defense Department said Friday the Army Contracting Command obligated $44.2 million at the ...
Weekly Roundup March 27 – March 31 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week, the GovCon industry witnessed several high-profile private sector executive moves. It goes without saying that these leadership changes could impact industry in a positive way...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 3, 2017 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has marked the culmination of its support for NASA‘s nearly 17-year Earth Observing-1 satellite mission, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday it has provided support for the validation and development of EO-1 satellite and instrument technologies a...
Frank Backes, former CEO of Braxton Technologies, has been named vice president of business development for satellite communications products and federal satellite solutions at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS). Kratos said Thursday Backes will focus on products and service offerings for the defense, intelligence ...
Tom Kennedy, vice president and general manager of Veritas Technologies™ public sector business, has said federal agencies must create strategies for organizing unstructured data, leveraging cloud-based tools to manage the massive amounts of information. Kennedy wrote that a cloud-based archiving platform, for instance, works to help agencies a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 30, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have performed initial integration of their respective technologies for a soft-kill demonstrator of the U.S. Army‘s Modular Active Protection System, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Lockheed said Tuesday its Open Architecture P...
