TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 16, 2018 ” Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has unveiled a new research and development facility in Alabama that will house work on artificial intelligence-powered technologies that are geared to support the military, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. MTSI said Friday the laboratory based at its Huntsville offic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 16, 2018 ” SSL will design and establish requirements under an Environmental Defense Fund contract for the development of a small satellite that will work to monitor methane emissions from oil and gas plants, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) said Thursday its SSL business will co...
Stockholders at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and Engility (NYSE: EGL) have approved at their respective meetings SAIC™s proposed $2.5B acquisition of the Chantilly, Va.-based engineering services contractor. Holders of more than 98 percent of shares in SAIC voted Friday to approve a proposal to issue shares of common st...
Dr. Marie Sandrock, deputy director of the Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office, oversees SCO™s mission to develop new and innovative technologies to shape and counter emerging threats across all domains, bringing game-changing capabilities to the Joint Force. As SCO™s deputy director, Dr. Sandrock™s top priority f...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 11, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has named Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a partner in its effort to develop a missile-detection platform for the U.S. Air Force that would succeed the current Space Based Infrared System satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Raytheon said Wednesday it will help design the payloa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 11, 2018 ” Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of U.S. public sector at Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), anticipates that 2019 will see the federal government adopt a policy that is aimed at managing data at the edge as it seeks to explore artificial intelligence and machine learning, ExecutiveBiz reported...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 10, 2018 — Premier (Nasdaq: PINC), a North Carolina-based health care company, has found that patients who experience an opioid overdose account for an estimated $11.3B in total annual costs at U.S. hospitals, with 66 percent of those patients covered under the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs, Ex...
Dan Chaddock, vice president of digital labs at Navy Federal Credit Union, has been appointed a member of TransUnion’s (NYSE: TRU) public sector advisory board. He joins the credit reporting agency’s board that offers insight and perspective on various requirements of federal, state, local and education sectors, TransUnion said Wednesday...
Management and Training Corp. has secured a potential five-year, $99.4M contract to help the Department of Labor operate an educational center that offers career technical and academic training services to people ages 16 to 24. MTC will support operations and career transition programs at Woodstock Job Corps Center in Maryland under the si...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 9, 2018 ” Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has said commercial software development could be a key focus of the Department of Defense in 2019 as it works to accelerate weapons systems procurement, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “Focusing on commerci...
