Boeing (NYSE: BA) has wrapped up its $3.2 billion cash acquisition of Florida-based aviation parts and services provider KLX. The transaction is part of Boeing’s aerospace services market push and expands its offerings for defense, business, commercial and general aviation clients, the company said Tuesday. The Chicago-based planemaker ...
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has begun the process of its domestication in the U.S. as part of its business strategy. Howard Lance, Maxar president and CEO, said in a statement published Tuesday the proposed U.S. domestication is part of the firm™s U.S. Access Plan and seeks to accelerate its growth efforts. œToday’s announcement ...
Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has appointed Michael Ventling, formerly global chief financial officer at Ernst & Young, to its board of directors and has named him chairman of the company’s audit committee. Mike Lawrie, chairman of the Perspecta board of directors, said in a statement published Tuesday that Ventling brings with him years of exper...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 9, 2018 ” A team comprised of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Saab will demonstrate a new guided munition platform for the man-portable, shoulder-launched Carl-Gustaf weapon system under a contract awarded by the U.S. Army, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Raytheon said Friday the team is planning to conduct test...
Paul Battaglia, vice president of government sales at BlackBerry (NYSE: BB), has said agencies should protect mobile devices from hackers and adversaries and one way to do that is through the use of derived credentials. Battaglia wrote that such an approach could help agencies verify the identity of government officials and employees by generating a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 8, 2018 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) is scheduled to exhibit and demonstrate its electronic warfare technologies at an Association of the U.S. Army event in Washington this week, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition through Oct. 10 will feature its Sk...
As part of Cybersecurity Month, Executive Mosaic spoke with Amanda Satterwhite, senior director of cyber defense and enablement at Novetta. Here™s what she had to say: EM: What is your cyber background? My background runs the gamut of software engineering, program management, and leadership in organizational growth strategy in cyber solutions. ...
Tom Reilly, CEO of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), told CNBC in an interview that aired Friday the proposed merger of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based software firm with Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) will create a new company that will deliver software across all major cloud service providers. “We work on Amazon, Microsoft, Google, the IBM Cloud,...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 4, 2018 ” General Atomics has flown a second MQ-9B SkyGuardian variant of the Predator B remotely piloted aircraft as part of preparations to deliver to its first customer in the 2020s, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday its aeronautical systems business held the initial flig...
A joint venture of Fluor (NYSE: FLR), BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) and Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has secured a potential 30-month, $850M contract modification to continue decontaminating and decommissioning the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The modification results from an option exercised under the U.S. Department of Energy&...
