TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has unveiled a new 861,112-square-foot logistics facility in the U.K. that will work to provide commodities and support services to the British military, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday it partnered with the U.K. defense ministry to open the $103.4 million ...
KeyW (Nasdaq: KEYW) has wrapped up its $235 million cash acquisition of Herndon, Virginia-based national security technology contractor Sotera Defense Solutions. Hanover, Maryland-based KeyW completed the transaction a month after it agreed to acquire Sotera as part of efforts to advance strategic growth and expand footprint...
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....
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...
Australia’s defense ministry has issued requests for tender on a $26.7 billion frigate shipbuilding program to down-selected offerors BAE Sytems, Fincantieri and Navantia. The ministry said Friday it seeks to procure nine warships that will conduct maritime warfare operations, such as anti-submarine missions, under the...
Saab has received a potential nine-year, $358.4 million contract from Sweden™s defense material administration to develop and produce an anti-ship missile platform for integration with the country’s Visby-class corvette ships and Gripen E fighter jets. The anti-ship missile system will have an updated target seeker and combat ra...
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 ” Riverbed Technology has secured Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ for its wide-area network optimization technology offering for federal agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday the SteelHead CX version 9.1.4 works to address networ...
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...
