Boeing (NYSE: BA) has opened a Plano, Texas-based facility to serve as headquarters of its newly established global services business unit. Boeing Global Services integrates the services functions of the company™s government, commercial and space segments and will focus on the delivery of services in the areas of engineering, digital aviat...
Randall Wotring, president of AECOM‘s (NYSE: ACM) technical and operational services business, has been promoted to chief operating officer at the Los Angeles-based engineering services contractor in a move that takes effect July 1. He will succeed Stephen Kadenacy, who will step down as COO and president of AECOM after a 10-yea...
John Celli, president of SSL (Space Systems Loral,) will be stepping down after serving the satellites and spacecraft systems company for 36 years, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA), announced Wednesday. Dario Zamarian has been appointed Group President and Paul Estey has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief O...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a $90.8 million contract to refurbish components on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 Hornet multirole aircraft. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Raytheon will provide 206 retrofit components and four validation and verification kits for F/A-18 Configuration D as part of three eng...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 26, 2017 ” ASRC Federal‘s mission solutions unit has completed an appraisal at Maturity Level 5 under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration framework, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the CMMI Level 5 appraisal works to verify the maturity of its engi...
Weekly Roundup June 19 – June 23 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Although the phrase œSpace Race brings to mind the Cold War-era struggle between the United States and Soviet Union for supremacy in spaceflight capabilities, it may begin to develop ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2017 ” Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will provide its SGI 8600 liquid-cooled petascale platform and Enhanced Hypercube system topology in a partnership with Mellanox Technologies to expand a supercomputer at NASA‘s Ames Research Center, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Mellanox said Monday...
A joint venture of CH2M and Clark Nexsen has won a potential five-year, $100 million contract to help the U.S. Navy to architect, engineer and design energy systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers energy management, architectural, mechanical, electrical, civil, structura...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 19, 2017 ” Data Systems Analysts has secured a position under the U.S. Army‘s potential $37.4 billion Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services contract, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company will vie for task orders to provide research, development, test and evaluation, acquisition, strateg...
The Energy Department will award six companies three-year contracts worth $258 million in total to research and develop large-scale supercomputers. DOE said Thursday it will issue funds through its Exascale Computing Project as part of the department’s new PathForward program that seeks to create the first exascale supercomputer...
