The State Department has approved Singapore’s request to procure laser guided bombs, associated equipment and support services under a potential $415 million foreign military sales agreement. Singapore’s request includes 40 GBU-10 Paveway II LGB units, 84 GBU-12 Paveway II LGB units, 60 FMU-152 or FMU-139D/B fuzes, AIM-120 tele...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2017 ” Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) board of directors has added former military intelligence officer Philip Bilden, who also helped establish private equity firm HarbourVest Partners, as a board member at the shipbuilding company, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. HII said Monday Bilde...
Gretchen Larsen Idsinga, formerly vice president of the training, infrastructure and environment division at Calibre Systems, has been promoted to SVP of growth operations. She will lead the Alexandria, Virginia-based contractor’s growth initiatives within the management consulting and information technology markets, Calibre said Thu...
Redwood City, California-based government budgeting systems provider OpenGov has purchased Berkeley, California-based technology company Peak Democracy for an undisclosed amount in a move to expand its citizen engagement platforms for the government sector. OpenGov said Friday it will integrate Peak Democracy™s Open Town Hall offering with its ...
Matt Needy, formerly vice president of the Virginia-class submarine program and fleet services at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division, has been appointed VP of operations at the same division. HII said Wednesday Needy will report to Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin and oversee t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 17, 2017 ” Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) CEO Mike Petters has been added to the National Association of Manufacturers’ board of directors, where he will help advance manufacturing policy agenda, GovCon Executive reported Monday. NAM said Friday Petters joins other industrial leaders ...
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has won a potential $385.7 million contract to help the U.S. Navy plan and implement engineering overhaul activities for the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Boise in fiscal year 2019. The Navy received two offers for the project throug...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential five-year, $988 million contract to provide information technology management services for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA awarded the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under the Information Technology Enterprise Management User Facing Services progra...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXM46cDZbA The Engagement Skills Trainer (EST) is designed to simulate live weapon training events that directly support individual and crew-served weapons qualification, including collective and escalation-of-force exercises in a controlled environment. It provides detailed feedback to the individual fire team/squad...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 2, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has partnered with nonprofit organization Doc™s Friends to help build an interactive hangar and education facility for a company-manufactured B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft dubbed “Doc,” GovCon Executive reported Sept. 25. Doc’s Friends said Sept. 23 B...
