United Technologies Corp.™s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a five-year, $230.1M contract from the U.S. Navy to support flight testing of a new F-35 aircraft propulsion system. Pratt & Whitney will help test F-35 Block 4 engine technology for Navy, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps and non-Dep...
Navy Rear Adm. Robert Sharp, commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence, has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Sharp, who is also director of the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office, will elevate to the rank of vice admiral and assume the NGA chief post in February...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 27, 2018 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) gold competency certification to offer the latter’s cloud offerings in support of customers’ cloud migration and modernization efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 12. The Microsoft Gold Partner designation serves to validate LeidosR...
A Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) division has secured two contracts worth $930.9M combined to build the 10th and 11th National Security Cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard. HII™s Ingalls Shipbuilding business will develop NSC 10 under the $468.75M fixed-price-incentive contract and NSC 11 under the $462.13M contract, the ...
Ronald LeClere, formerly a vice president of finance within General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has joined Halfaker and Associates as chief financial officer at the Arlington, Va.-based systems integration services contractor. He will assist the Halfaker leadership team in operational decision-making efforts...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 21, 2018 ” Deloitte will work to develop a cloud-based training virtual environment for the U.S. Navy‘s enterprise shipboard network and provide associated analysis and training services under a potential $23M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Department of Defense said Wednesday Delo...
The National Institutes of Health has released a list of awardees on the Section 8(a) track of a potential four-year, $20B governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology and health IT support services. A FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday says there are four confirmed 8(a) awardees on the on-ramp Chief Information Office...
The U.S. Army has awarded seven companies spots on a potential five-year, $168M contract to help the military service develop training concepts, platforms and strategies. Twenty-nine bids were submitted to the Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet, the Department of Defense said Thursday...
Accenture reported on Monday that the IT modernization of U.S. federal agencies has accelerated in 2018, but still faces significant challenges. The State of Federal IT 2018 report revealed that only 47 percent of IT decisionmakers believe their efforts contributed to mission agility. In addition, only 39 percent transform mission and business requi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 20, 2018 ” Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ (Nasdaq: HDP) U.S. public sector business, has said enterprise open source tools such as Apache NiFi and Hadoop work to support emergency and disaster response operations by deriving actionable intelligence from data, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 3....
