BAE Systems Inc., the British defense contractor’s U.S. subsidiary, has won a potential four-year, $75.3 million contract to perform engineering and technical work on combat identification systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Monday the company will provide 1, 075, 200 man-hours of CIDS support to the Naval Air Warfare C...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $197.6 million contract modification to design and test computer program baselines for the U.S. Navy™s Aegis combat system. The company will also provide integration and delivery services for related technology insertion hardware design for the next build, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockhee...
The U.S. Air Force has unveiled the names of seven companies that will partner with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to help build a fleet of B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber planes for the military service, Defense News reported Monday. Lara Seligman writes Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said in a news briefing at the ...
Dell and Massachusetts-based data storage vendor EMC (NYSE: EMC) will implement a new senior management structure upon closing of their approximately $67 billion merger. Michael Dell told employees in a memo Tuesday the integrated company will have an executive group that will comprise current CEOs of the VMwa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 1, 2016 ” The U.S. Air Force has unveiled the concept design of the future B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber aircraft that Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will build for the service branch, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Air Force reported Friday Deborah Lee James, secretary of the Air Force, presented the design ...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Ellwood National Forge have won a $682.9 million contract with the U.S. Army to produce BLU-109 penetrator bomb bodies and parts for Turkey under a foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Department said Friday the companies will manufacture the bomb bodies and components through Dec. 31, 2020. The BLU-109 ...
The team of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will not pursue a legal challenge in federal claims court of the U.S. Air Force™s award of the Long Range Strike Bomber contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Bloomberg reported Friday. Julie Johnsson writes the decision comes a week after the Government Accoun...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2016 ” Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), has said the company uses deep-learning and crowdsourcing tools to analyze satellite imagery, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. GCN reported Wednesday that Frazier has pointed to MrGeo, NVIDIA graphics process...
The Government Accountability Office has denied the Boeing (NYSE: BA)-Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) team’s protest of the U.S. Air Force‘s award of the highly-classified Long Range Strike Bomber contract to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) in a ruling that could give way for engineering and development work to start. Boeing and Lockheed hold a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has upgraded six B-52 bomber planes of the U.S. Air Force with increased capacity for internal weapons, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the upgraded internal weapons bay launchers can load up to eight Joint Direct Attack Munitions. “The upgrades t...
