Nine companies have won positions on a potential 10-year, $9.86 billion contract to provide foreign language services to the U.S. Army‘s Defense Language Interpretation Translation Enterprise program. The Army received 20 bids for the contract via the internet and will provide funds and performance locations upon issuance of individu...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential five-year, $150.2 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to help the government of Qatar deploy, install and sustain the country’s Patriot air defense systems and related equipment. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also provide configuration managemen...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hde946tvmfY Defense Secretary Jim Mattis welcomes Georgian Defense Minister Levan Izoria, with a full honor cordon at the Pentagon, before discussing ongoing security matters, Nov. 13, 2017. For more on the Department of Defense, visit: http://www.defense.gov...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will support the first phase of an approximately $1.54 billion Australian government program that seeks to build on the country’s air defenses under an estimated $9.3 million contract awarded to the company’s local business unit, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Australia’...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has collaborated with the Missile Defense Agency to load the 44th interceptor onto the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system located at Fort Greely in Alaska, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the installation marks the completion of a Defense Department goal to i...
Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has won a one-year, $88.7 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide specialty engineering advisory and assistance services for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The Defense Department said Thursday MTSI will help MDA engineer sensor, directed energy and space systems as well as support BMDS...
George Franz, a retired U.S. Army major general and former operations director of the U.S. Cyber Command, has joined Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business as managing director of defense and security business initiatives. Accenture said Tuesday Franz will provide cybersecurity and adaptive technology expertise and wo...
The State Department has approved a potential $15 billion foreign military sale of anti-ballistic missile defense systems, related equipment and support services to Saudi Arabia. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will serve as principal contractors on the sale, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday. Th...
A Saab Group subsidiary has won a potential $118.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop multimode radar systems for integration onto the U.S. Coast Guard‘s offshore patrol cutter ships. The contract has an initial value of $16.8 million and will reach its full cumulative value if all options are exercised, th...
