Larry Barfield, former director of capture management at KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) government services subsidiary KBRwyle, has been named vice president and capture management leader for the federal business group of Parsons. He brings more than 30 years of security and government services market experience to his new position, Carey Smith, Parso...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 6, 2017 ” Fulcrum will provide strategic, organizational and programmatic analysis services to support the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s wargame center under a $2.4 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said in February it will support the special operations chief of s...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has secured a $100.4 million contract modification to update the U.S. Navy‘s shipboard sensor processing systems under the Technical Insertion-16 Acoustic – Rapid-Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Insertion program. The Defense Department said Friday the progra...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 3, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. will conduct research into automation technologies that utilize artificial intelligence under a $498,000 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday its goal is to build an AI Analyst Vir...
A Navistar subsidiary has received a $440 million contract from the U.S. Army to reset and modernize MaxxPro mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles for the United Arab Emirates through the Excess Defense Articles program. Navistar’s defense business will perform upgrade work on 1,085 MRAPs and deliver specified sets, kits...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 28, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled a new Cybersecurity Engagement Center in Mexico in efforts to support Latin American government and enterprise customers’ programs against cyber threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Friday the center aims to drive response against cyber crimes...
Janis Pamiljans, general manager of strategic systems at Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) aerospace systems business, has been elected by the board of directors to serve as corporate vice president and president of the firm™s aerospace systems business. Pamiljans will succeed the retiring Thomas Vice on April 1 and report to Wes Bush, Northr...
Cleveland-based aerospace components maker TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) has purchased Takata Corp.™s aerospace and defense businesses as well as related assets and liabilities for approximately $90 million cash. TransDigm said Wednesday the transaction covers Takata™s Schroth Safety Products and Takata Protection Systems...
Eight companies have received contracts worth a combined $17 million to help NASA advance small launch and space vehicle technologies under the second round of the agency’s Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Tipping Point Technologies program. NASA said Thursday each contract contains a performa...
Tina Dolph, former president of ASRC Federal‘s information and technical solutions group and a 25-year government services veteran, has been named executive vice president and general manager of State Department programs at FCi Federal. FCi said Tuesday she will also explore potential market opportunities for the Ashburn, V...
