TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 5, 2017 ” Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Insitu subsidiary has partnered with Esri to demonstrate an unmanned aerial vehicle with a geographic information system for potential use during firefighting missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Insitu said Tuesday the team held test flights of the ScanEagle UAV at the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vueVKl_GsKU Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testify on the political and security situation in Afghanistan before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Oct. 3, 2017....
Michael Fallon, U.K. defense minister, will introduce a potential $1.33 billion framework to provide support services and maintain the British navy™s fleet of aircraft carriers, amphibious ships, frigates and other warships. The U.K. government™s Common Support Model aims to consolidate support contracts into a single structure to speed up...
Five companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $249 million foreign military sales contract to offer education and training services for a U.S. Army‘s Security Assistance Training Management Organization. The Defense Department said Tuesday contractors will support USASATMO’s overseas security assistance training activities ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x26hXsWp3uc Sixty years ago today, on October 4, 1957, there was a beeping sound “heard” round the world. It came while the United States and Soviet Union were caught in the fervor of the Cold War, but also at a time when people believed that American ingenuity and industry could overcome any technical cha...
Weekly Roundup September 25 – September 29 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Summer has come to a close and the first executive moves of autumn have started to occur. A number of C-suite level executive moves have happened in the past three weeks and are...
Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has won a potential eight-year, $495 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide base area support services at Joint Region Marianas in Guam. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Hawaii awarded the cost-plus-award-fee contract that covers general base support, port operations, ordnance, facility investment, administration...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj9xz1b59WU Want to learn more about life on a simulated Mars mission? Hear from Josh Ehrlich “ a Lockheed Martin engineer on the Orion spacecraft who traded in tech for a trowel as the resident botanist of the fifth Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) study. The video journal was recorded ju...
Los Alamos National Security has received a potential six-month, $65 million contract extension from the Energy Department to continue to perform environmental remediation work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Bridge Contract will run through March 31, 2018, and covers soil and water remediation...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 26, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will provide continued in-service support for a remotely controlled vehicle that the U.K. ministry of defense’s special projects search and countermeasures team uses for explosive ordnance disposal operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday it rec...
