Quest Global, an engineering services provider to the aerospace and defense sectors, has acquired and integrated software development company EXB Solutions into the Ohio-based Quest Defense Systems & Solutions business. Minnesota-headquartered EXB employs more than 170 engineers and provides full life cycle software development support to custom...
Huntsville, Alabama-based small business Five Stones Research Corp. has won a five-year, $266.4 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks to weapon systems. 5SRC will additionally support the Department of Defense in efforts to integrate cybersecurity data into the system architecture, secure cloud...
The Transportation Security Administration is seeking proposals for a potential $128 million multiple-award contract to develop, install and maintain the new version of the agency’s facial recognition system used to authenticate passenger credentials. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will have an ordering period of seven years ...
The State Department has approved a foreign military sale of multimission military helicopters, manufactured by Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, to Australia through a $1.95 billion government-to-government transaction. Australia requested to buy 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters along with a range of additional items such as ...
Guardians of Honor has received a potential five-year, $290 million contract from NASA to offer STEM products and services aimed at improving STEM literacy and immersing underrepresented and underserved students in the space agency’s research work. The single-award NASA Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics contract includes awards and...
Kris Perry, formerly head of research and integration division at Intelligent Waves, has elevated to the role of vice president of engineering at the company. He will bring to the role over two decades of technological insight and understanding of defense systems and missions to oversee the design and delivery of novel platforms to customers...
Eric Ostfeld, a 15-year veteran of Parsons (NYSE: PSN), has joined Michael Baker International as president of design-build services. Ostfeld will serve on the executive committee of Michael Baker and be responsible for leading its pursuit of design-build projects, the Pittsburg-based infrastructure engineering and consulting company said Tuesday. T...
Michelle Kruger, a 25-year veteran of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has joined Austal’s ship manufacturing business in the U.S. to serve as vice president of global services and support. Austal USA said Monday that Kruger will lead worldwide post-delivery repair and warranty programs, business development efforts and partnership strategies in her n...
Gary Lac, a two-decade biometrics and identity management industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of solutions development at the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese information technology company NEC Corp. He will oversee NEC Corporation of America products across digital services, national security and state and local government verticals, the...
Jacobs (NYSE: J) will adopt Jacobs Solutions as its new corporate name as part of a plan to implement a holding company structure on Aug. 29. Common stock of Jacobs Solutions will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “J” on an uninterrupted basis, the company said Friday. Jacobs said the...
