Subsidiaries of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron (NYSE: TXT) have landed spots under a potential five-year, $475 million contract that covers mid-endurance unmanned aircraft system intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services to the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Boein...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 7, 2017 ” Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), has said the company is working to help DoD transition the Joint Regional Security Stacks to the cloud and update other information technology infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Defense Sys...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 7, 2017 ” Harris (NYSE: HRS) has started the operations of four maritime vessel tracking receivers that are hosted on the Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) satellites launched in January, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Iridium Next-hosted payloads work to track an estimated 250,000 ships around the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 7, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has unveiled the first Japan-assembled F-35A fighter aircraft during a ceremony held at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-run F-35 final assembly and check out facility in Nagoya, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The aircraft is the first of 38 F-35As that will roll out of the FACO ...
Homeland Security agents are not actively targeting Dreamers for deportation, Secretary John F. Kelly told the House Homeland Security Committee Wednesday. œWe are not, not, not targeting DACA registrants right now, said Kelly. Dreamers are illegal immigrants that were approved for tentative status in 2012 under President Obama’...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 6, 2017 ” SAP National Security Services (NYSE: SAP) has entered into a strategic partnership with CounterTack to integrate technologies and develop an endpoint security tool for the government and commercial sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. CounterTack said Wednesday its Endpoint Threat Platform will ut...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 6, 2017 ” Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Georgia Institute of Technology, a Qualcomm Technologies subsidiary and the Energy Department‘s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will build a graph analytics processor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ExecutiveBiz reporte...
The Department of Defense has made œa huge leap forward in unmanned systems in five years, said Dyke Weatherington, currently performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (OUSD) (AT&L.) Speaking at the Potomac Officers Club Tu...
The State Department has authorized Saudi Arabia’s procurement of training services for the country’s air force and other military branches under a $750 million foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government. Saudi Arabia™s blanket order training program will cover English language, flight, mobile, specialized and te...
The Veterans Affairs Department has decided that it will forego the usual technology acquisition process and implement the same electronic health records (EHR) platform as the Defense Department, according to an announcement today from Secretary David Shulkin. œBecause of the urgency and the critical nature of this decision, I have decided that...
