Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE:LMT) mission systems and training business has secured a potential $79.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a combat management system for Littoral Combat Ships. The Defense Department said Monday the contract covers the development and integration of hardware and software as well as combat system te...
The U.S. Army has awarded General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) a potential $167.4 million to supply MK84-4 tritonal-filled general purpose bomb components to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Thursday General Dynamics’ ordnance and tactical systems business unit will perform work in Garland, Texas t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 28, 2016 ” Hughes Network Systems has teamed with Klas Telecom, GetSAT and NexTech Solutions to develop and demonstrate a mobile satellite communications technology that supports voice, data and video, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Klas Telecom said Tuesday the communications-on-the-move platform h...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 28, 2016 ” Joe Ayers, vice president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s (NYSE: HPE) federal enterprise group, has said the future merger between HPE’s enterprise services segment and Computer Sciences Corp. will create a large information technology services company that works to support the systems in...
The U.S. Air Force could finish a declassified copy of the Government Accountability Office‘s decision to uphold the military branch’s selection of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) over a Boeing (NYSE: BA)-Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) team for the Long Range Strike Bomber program around late September, Bloomberg ...
BAE Systems has received $245 million contract from the U.K.’s ministry of defense for the acquisition of a gun system to be integrated on the country’s global combat ship fleet. BAE said Thursday it will provide three Maritime Indirect Fires System integrated gunnery systems that includes a 62-caliber Mk 45...
David McOmber, a two-decade IBM (NYSE: IBM) veteran and a former vice president in Big Blue’s federal business, has joined data center and cloud computing services contractor QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS) as executive VP of public sector and federal sales. QTS said Monday McOmber will also work to build relationships across its ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 20, 2016 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM), Bombas and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation will support the Department of Veterans Affairs in the delivery of healthcare to military veterans, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. VA said Monday it has teamed with the three organizations under the MyVA Strategic Partnership I...
The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded a $170 million contract to Battelle for the procurement of non-standard commercial vehicles and a $166 million contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to develop a dry combat submersible system for USSOCOM. Battelle will configure trucks and sport utility vehicles for the ...
Jonathan Whitcomb, president of the technical services segment at engineering and scientific services contractor Dynetics, will retire from the company after a two-decade career there on July 1. Dynetics said Tuesday that Stephen Cook, a corporate vice president, has been appointed to the role of acting president for the segment....
