TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 4, 2016 ” A BAE Systems-led program that seeks to replace the British navy™s Vanguard-class submarines has received an estimated $1.7 billion in funds from the U.K. defense ministry, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Saturday the Successor program funds serve to provide for four new subma...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 4, 2016 ” Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) and the General Services Administration have agreed on a renegotiated contract on the use of collected federal spending data, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. GSA’s Kevin Youel Page wrote in a blog post published Thursday that the new contract expands access to the&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 4, 2016 ” The U.S. Navy has used Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-6 to perform a surface-to-air intercept of an over-the-horizon target at the longest range recorded to date, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday the missile was launched from the USS Princeton cr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 4, 2016 ” Singapore could potentially procure the F-35 fighter jet built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) in the 2030s as the country’s F-15 and F-16 fleet remains operational for the next two decades, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Defense News reported Monday Ng Eng Hen, Singapore’s defense mini...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed flat Monday to start the year’s fourth quarter as a rebound by Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) in conjunction with advances by other large- and mid-tier primes offset declines by KBR (NYSE: KBR) and McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK). GovCon Index gainers slightly edged laggers and eight o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board has awarded a provisional authority-to-operate to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for its government-focused, cloud-based customer relations management software, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Microsoft said Thursday&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has installed simulation equipment to support training for manned CST-100 Starliner spacecraft missions at NASA˜s Johnson Space Center in Texas, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company designed its Crew Part Task Trainers to help astronauts rehearse various mis...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has unveiled updates to the Sailfish analytics platform in support of operations such as vehicle safety, vaccine dissemination and anti-human trafficking, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the updated Sailfish will be available in a free trial vers...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has delivered the first GPS Operational Control System satellite receiver to Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) following electromagnetic interference tests, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Space News reported Thursday the satellite receiver is the first of 34 due for the ground sys...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 3, 2016 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) and its partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), DataDirect Networks, Mellanox Technologies and Brocade Communication Systems have updated the National Institutes of Health‘s Biowulf supercomputing infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported F...
