Howell Estes, a board member at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) since October 2017, has been named chairman of the company™s board of directors in a move that will take effect Jan. 1. He will succeed Robert Phillips, who will continue to serve on the board, the company said Thursday. “Howell’s wealth of experience in service to...
Four companies have secured other transaction agreements to explore the possibility of creating a single, lightweight, man-portable system for the U.S. Marine Corps to locate, acquire and counter targets. BAE Systems, Elbit Systems of America (Nasdaq: ESLT), Fraser Optics and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will examine potential sy...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 13, 2018 ” Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) executives Carl De Groote and Chuck Louisell have urged the U.S. military to explore technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and in-line data analytics with an agile and resilient multinetwork architecture to support mission assurance, sustained operation...
Two companies have landed spots on a potential eight-year, $264M contract for engineering and technical support services to NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Analytical Mechanics Associates and New Horizons Aeronautics will vie for task orders under the ETSS indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, NASA&...
Four companies have secured spots on a potential five-year, $325M contract to provide research, development, test and evaluation support services for the Department of Homeland Security. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says Engility (NYSE: EGL), ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT), Noblis and Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC)...
New York-based private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management has agreed to pay $18.50 in cash for each outstanding share of Sparton™s (NYSE: SPA) common stock. Sparton said Wednesday its board of directors cleared the transaction, which is expected to conclude in the first quarter of calendar year 2019. Tarek Ajouz, a managing ...
Henry Chao, a more than two-decade veteran of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been appointed chief technology officer at Columbia, Md.-based health information technology contractor FEI Systems. FEI said Tuesday Chao will oversee the development of service offerings for CMS and state Medicaid programs and coor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 11, 2018 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has entered into a partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) to develop a joint service that will work to secure digital identities while enabling consumers to manage and share identity data using trusted devices, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 4. Mastercard said Dec. 3 the effort, w...
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at Gigamon, has said government agencies should have the right balance of technology, people and processes to defend and protect their information technology systems from cyber threats. Reilly wrote that one of the difficult challenges facing agencies is recruiting and retaining cybersecurity profe...
Kenneth Possenriede, a more than 30-year Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) veteran, has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer of the company in a move that will take effect Feb. 11. He will succeed the retiring Bruce Tanner, a 37-year company executive who served as CFO for more than a decade, Lockheed said...
