The State Department has approved Singapore’s request to procure laser guided bombs, associated equipment and support services under a potential $415 million foreign military sales agreement. Singapore’s request includes 40 GBU-10 Paveway II LGB units, 84 GBU-12 Paveway II LGB units, 60 FMU-152 or FMU-139D/B fuzes, AIM-120 tele...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 29, 2017 ” Mark Rayha, vice president and chief financial officer of General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business, has said the company utilizes business intelligence and scalable technologies to drive organic growth and respond to challenges. “[Organic growth] keeps our technology portfoli...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has named three executives to new roles, effective April 1, as Joseph Logue, an executive vice president who leads the McLean, Virginia-based management and technology consulting firm™s defense and intelligence businesses, prepares to retire on June 30. Karen Dahut, an EVP responsible for the company™s comme...
The State Department has cleared Poland™s request to buy a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles from the U.S. government under two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $500 million combined. Poland asked to purchase Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System M31A1 Un...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 28, 2017 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) will deploy the Watson cognitive computing infrastructure for Australia’s defense department and provide InfoSec Registered Assessors Program certification services under an estimated $3.1 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. ARN reported Monday the department aims to util...
Oliver Schabenberger, chief technology officer at SAS Institute, will assume additional duties as chief operating officer at the Cary, North Carolina-based analytics software company beginning on Jan. 1. SAS said Monday Schabenberger will oversee customer support, sales and marketing efforts and help the firm implement business priorities and provid...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured six contracts worth up to $198.4 million combined to deliver C-130 Hercules aircraft training systems and maintenance services to multiple Defense Department clients. The company said Monday it will help the U.S. Air Force study common architectures of various simulator elements to establish a c...
Nate Carey, formerly assistant controller of Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL), has been promoted to vice president and controller of the Broomfield, Colorado-based aerospace contractor. He succeeds Shawn Barker, who transitioned to a new role as the corporation’s finance transformation VP, Ball said Monday. Carey joined Ball in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uskbkBiDXEY In this episode of Voices from DARPA, sociocultural anthropologist Adam Russell, a program manager with the Agency™s Defense Sciences Office (DSO), discusses his vision for a range of technologies that can help usher in a next-generation social science. At the crux of this future view are novel experi...
The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals for a combat vehicle program designed to address the capability gap in the service™s infantry brigade combat teams and operate alongside ground mobility and light reconnaissance vehicles within the IBCT structure. A FedBizOpps notice published Nov. 21 says the Mobile Protected Firepower program s...
