General Atomics has agreed to acquire aerospace and defense technical services business Miltec from electronics manufacturing company Ducommun for approximately $14.6 million cash. The transaction is subject to customary closing terms and is intended to increase General Atomics’ technical expertise in developing small satellites, hyp...
The State Department has cleared a potential $225 million foreign military sale of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure systems and logistics support for the United Arab Emirates’ C-17 military transport planes. Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will act as principal contractors for the&nbs...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 23, 2016 ” Modern Technology Solutions Inc. will provide technical engineering support to the Strategic Capabilities Office within the Defense Department under a $22.6 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. DoD said Friday the award from the Washington Headquarters Services runs through Feb. 24, 20...
Pat Blevins, formerly senior vice president of strategic growth at InfoZen, has been named vice president of the solutions engineering organization at General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) information technology business unit. Blevins will lead the organization that works to deliver platforms to industry and government clients in the areas of cyber...
SCRA Applied R&D has been awarded a potential five-year, $99 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to operate the U.S. Navy™s metalworking center in collaboration with engineering firm EWI. SCRA will manage the Navy Manufacturing Technologies Center of Excellence and EWI will assist in the center’s project developme...
A team comprising ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) and Jadwalean International Operations & Management Co. has been awarded a potential five-year, $175 million contract to provide F-15 fleet advisory and technical support services to Saudi Arabia. The companies will deploy personnel in Saudi Arabia to support the country’s F-15 sy...
The National Archives and Records Administration has asked industry to supply technical information on tools built to capture, manage and preserve content from social media networks. NARA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks commercial technology that can archive data on more than 120 social media blogs, accounts and channel...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has asked industry to submit technical proposals for the construction of a command-and-control facility that will house the Army Cyber Command and an operations facility for the cyber protection team in Fort Gordon, Georgia. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday it plans to award up...
The Government Accountability Office has denied the Boeing (NYSE: BA)-Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) team’s protest of the U.S. Air Force‘s award of the highly-classified Long Range Strike Bomber contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) in a ruling that could give way for engineering and development work to start. Boeing and Lockheed hold a...
Gregg Einfalt, former president of ASRC Federal‘s engineering and aerospace operating group, has joined Reston, Virginia-based government services contractor Lentech as president. Einfalt will oversee Lentech’s efforts to grow its footprint in the civil and defense engineering and technical markets, the company said Feb. 1. “G...
