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...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) a potential five-year, $1.76B contract to support company-made products for the Department of Defense, U.S. Coast Guard and the intelligence community. DoD said Friday the company will provide engineering services to help software developers and other product teams utilize knowledge database, t...
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 9, 2018 ” A KBRWyle business unit will work to deliver global information technology services to support the U.S. Army through its position on the potential $12.1B Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 services contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The KBR (NYSE: KBR) government services...
David Van Wie, formerly mission area executive for precision strike mission at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named head of the nonprofit research organization’s air and missile defense sector. He will lead the segment that aims to increase the country’s ability to defend against missile and aircraft threat...
Cadence Aerospace, a portfolio company of investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has named former Pratt & Whitney executive Kevin Martin as chief information officer. The more than 30-year industry veteran most recently served as associate director of military engines business development at the United Technologies Corp....
Tony D’Angelo, vice president of federal business at Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT), has said cloud migration and other information technology modernization initiatives provide agencies an opportunity to redirect their cybersecurity focus toward efforts aimed at protecting users from cyber threats. Agencies allocate only 8 percent of their cybersec...
Scott Weiner, a more than 10-year Cobham veteran, has named vice president of corporate development at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN). Raytheon said Monday Weiner will oversee acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments and divestitures across the company’s domestic and international businesses. He will report to Chief Fi...
Risk Mitigation Consulting has won a potential five-year, $95M contract to assess the U.S. Navy‘s mission assurance process for infrastructure and facility-related control systems. The company will also gather and analyze data on Navy industrial control systems, utilities and supporting infrastructure to help the military servic...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary, Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and Oceaneering International (NYSE: OII) have received five-year contracts to support safety and material work aboard the U.S. Navy™s submarines. The Defense Department said Wednesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts cover support for ...
