The State Department has approved Qatar’s request to buy 72 Boeing (NYSE: BA) F-15 aircraft, weapons, related support, equipment and training services under a potential $21.1 billion foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the agreement aims to support political stability and ...
Palo Alto, California-based analytics firm Sysorex (Nasdaq: SYRX) has agreed to purchase certain assets of information technology services provider Integrio Technologies in a move to add new contracts and clients to Sysorex’s professional services and government value-added reseller business segments. Sysorex said Wedn...
Kevin Benedict, former vice president of business development at SES Government Solutions, has joined Atlanta-based remote field communications and information technology provider DataPath as senior VP of U.S. government sales. DataPath said Tuesday Benedict will oversee efforts to expand the company’s work with U.S. defens...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $125.2 million contract modification for engineering and technical support work on commercial off-the-shelf sonar equipment for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Monday that Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business will continue to develop and produce Acoustic-Rapid COTS Inser...
NASA has awarded nine companies indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth a total of $49.5 million over five years for specialized engineering, aeronautics and manufacturing support services to the Johnson Space Center’s flight operations directorate. The space agency said Friday task orders encompass aerostructura...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Inmarsat and Rick Lober of Hughes Network Systems have stated that commercial platforms could support the U.S. military’s broadband communications and satellite coverage needs, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. “The opportunity lies in engaging with commercia...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 9, 2016 ” A Dell Technologies subsidiary has launched a new security platform that will work to protect Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) enterprise applications, as well as extend the Data Domain storage platform to Amazon Simple Storage Service, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Dell EMC said Monday its Ne...
Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB) has promoted Paul Gierow to vice president for technology at the Cubic Mission Solutions division and Roark McDonald to VP and general manager of GATR Technologies, a business within the CMS division. Gierow will be responsible for driving and aligning CMS’ innovation and technolo...
United Technologies Corp.‘s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a $167.5 million contract to fund long-lead engine materials needed for the low-rate initial production of lot 11 F-35s. Pratt & Whitney will supply 48 F135-PW-100 fighter engines for the U.S. Air Force, four F135-PW-100s for the U.S. Na...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 7, 2016 ” The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a $13.3 million contract modification to extend its support for the agency’s Adaptive Radar Countermeasures project for airborne electronic warfare systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The ARC program™s miss...
