Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has secured an eight-year, $700.8 million contract to build surface ship undersea warfare systems for the U.S. Navy and Japan. The company will develop, integrate, produce and test future advanced capability build and technical insertion baselines of AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 USW sys...
Weekly Roundup March 19 – March 23, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes Wash100 Update & the CSRA Acquisition Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO The popular vote for the Wash100 continues this week! Voting turn out has been strong since the January 25th launch of the popular vote, and all of us...
BAE Systems has received two orders worth a combined $97 million to supply night vision goggles and thermal weapon sights to the U.S. Army. Both orders fall under a five-year, $434 million contract the service branch awarded in 2015 under the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III and Family of Weapon Sight-Individual program, BAE said Thursday. Mar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pul0VL2TeY Pre Commissioning Unit Ralph Johnson (DDG 114), will be commissioned during a ceremony Saturday, March 24, 2018 in Charleston, South Carolina. Ralph Johnson, commanded by Cmdr. Jason Patterson, a Chicago native, is the 64th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, and the 30th DDG 51 class destroyer built by the Hun...
Michael King, formerly vice president of business development at Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) cyber and intelligence mission solutions division, has joined Peraton as chief growth officer. King will oversee business development, capture, mergers and acquisitions, customer engagement, strategic pricing, proposals and other components of the He...
The U.S. Navy has issued a request for proposal to Huntington Ingalls Industries™ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division to determine potential cost savings associated with the procurement of two Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. “In keeping with the National Defense Strategy, the Navy developed an acquisition strategy ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 19, 2018 ” An Accenture (NYSE: ACN) survey has found that more than half of respondents across Australia, France, Germany, Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S. are open to use artificial intelligence-based government services, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday 54 percent of the 6,000-plus cit...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 14, 2018 ” Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) will supply cloud computing and analytics technology to the Customs and Border Protection agency as part of the latter’s digital modernization initiatives, ExecutiveBiz reported. The company said CBP will deploy the Salesforce Analytics, Community Cloud and Service ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlh1tMdSOHc Joint Terminal Attack Controllers are qualified Airmen in the US Air Force that direct the action of combat aircraft engaged in close air support and other offensive air operations from a forward position. They often find themselves embedded in U.S. Army units downrange, so the National Training Center at ...
Ted Fordyce, vice president of government relations at Elbit Systems™ (Nasdaq: ESLT) U.S. arm, has assumed the additional role of VP for the subsidiary™s Washington operations. Fordyce will serve as Elbit Systems of America™s liaison to the White House, Congress and federal agencies such as the departments of Homeland Security an...
