IMI Systems has secured a potential seven-year, $450 million contract to provide munitions to Israel’s infantry and armor units, Defense News reported Monday. Barbara Opall Rome writes that Israel’s defense ministry said the multiyear procurement effort will help the Israeli armed forces to resupply the country’s inventory of...
NASA plans to launch a potential $188 million mission by 2020 to explore and collect information on black holes, pulsars, neutron stars and other cosmic X-rays. The space agency selected the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission out of three mission concepts that were chosen from a set of 14 offers that NASA received after it...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 27, 2016 ” Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has appointed Doug Harlow, formerly a business development executive at the acquisition management services company, as program manager for its Department of Homeland Security‘s national protection and programs directorate contract, GovCon Executive s...
Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) subsidiary, has received a $313.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to help maintain F119-PW-100 engines. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers necessary parts for engine sustainment. Work will occur in Connecticut, ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 23, 2016 ” Siemens has secured several Energy Savings Performance Contracts to support the U.S. Government’s efforts to reduce energy and water use across federal agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company will help agencies, including the U.S. Army and the National Park Service to mit...
The State Department has approved Norway’s request to buy Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) P-8A patrol aircraft and associated support under a $1.75 billion foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government. Norway asked to purchase up to five P-8A aircraft with commercial engines, tactical open mission software, electro-optical...
Sarcos Robotics has appointed Eric Olson, a former head of U.S. Special Operations Command, and Paul Gorman, a former chief of U.S. Southern Command, as members of the company’s advisory board. The robotic systems provider said Wednesday Olson and Gorman will work with fellow military veterans David Dunaway and William Owens as ...
Steve Hoover, CEO at Xerox‘s (NYSE: XRX) PARC subsidiary, has been named chief technology officer at the Norwalk, Connecticut-based document management and outsourcing company in a move that takes effect Jan. 1, 2017. Xerox said Wednesday Hoover will report to incoming Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson and succeed Sophie Vandebroek, who i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 19, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Collinear Networks have entered into a partnership in efforts to commercialize wireless transmission technology over a period of more than two years, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Collinear has worked to develop a Lockheed-built hybrid point-to-point wireless transmiss...
Solon, Ohio-based expeditionary shelter systems provider HDT Global has purchased the assets of DRS Environmental Systems for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand the former’s mobile aircraft ground platforms, environmental control units and mobile enclosure product offerings. The transaction will allow HDT Global to include two DESI facili...
