An L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) subsidiary will modernize the forward-looking infrared systems on military rotary-wing aircraft for the U.S. Special Operations Command under a potential $96.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. L3Wescam received the noncompetitive award to support SOCOM’s Improved Rotary-wing Electro...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a $438 million contract modification that increases the ceiling value of U.S. Special Operations Command orders for radio frequency countermeasures technology. The award raises the maximum ordering amount in SOCOM’s Suite of Integrated RF Countermeasures program to $493 million, the Department of ...
DCS’ InfoScitex subsidiary will help the U.S. Air Force develop aerospace technologies and conduct multidomain operations analysis under a pair of seven-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $243 million combined. The single-award IDIQs entail support to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Techno...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2021 — Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, talked about how the U.S. Postal Service and company collaborated to deploy a distributed edge artificial intelligence platform in an effort to streamline the identification and tracking of packages, ExecutiveBi...
Jim Kelly, a vice president at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), has been promoted to senior VP for North America federal sales at the company. “Jim’s experience and drive make him an excellent leader to continue our strong momentum in this segment,” John Byrne, president of North America Sales at Dell, said in a statement. “I’m...
During a recent visit to Northrop Grumman, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Shawn Purvis, corporate vice president and president of Enterprise Services at Northrop Grumman, with her first 2021 Wash100 Award. Purvis received the first Wash100 Award of her career for her leadership in enabling large-scale technology infrastructure and tra...
The U.S. Air Force has named 33 awardees on a seven-year, $700 million contract vehicle to support minor construction projects at Joint Base Andrews and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. Contractors will compete for task orders to build, repair and maintain infrastructure at the two Maryland-based military installations, the Department of Defense said F...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2021 — General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business updated the mission system of its MQ-9 Reaper in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), ExecutiveBiz reported April 23. GA-ASI said April 22 the remotely piloted aircraft demonstrated its ability to collect intelligence data...
NEC Corporation of America has launched a new subsidiary that will offer biometric identity, machine learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence applications to the homeland security, defense, intelligence and law enforcement sectors. Benji Hutchinson, an industry veteran and a biometrics and AI leader, will lead NEC National Security Solu...
General Motors has appointed Steve duMont, a former executive at the intelligence and space segment of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), as president of its defense business arm, replacing Tim Herrick, who has been holding the post on an interim basis. duMont brings two decades of experience in working with big defense industry players, having serv...
