https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se2yAX98aaI Marines with Task Force Recon, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, participate in a force on force exercise during Steel Knight 17 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., Dec. 6-12, 2016. Task Force Recon is a combination of different reconnaissance e...
Adam Wilson, CEO of San Francisco-based software firm Trifacta, has said federal agencies should adopt data wrangling platforms and techniques in order to expedite analysis of big data workloads. Wilson wrote that such tools are designed to help agencies deal with a range of complex information and allow analysts to work directly with the avail...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index swung to negative territory in a volatile afternoon session for U.S. stocks Friday as equities retreated from morning gains after reports surfaced that China’s navy seized a U.S. unmanned underwater drone in the South China Sea. The GovCon Index’s streak of five consecutive weekly gain...
A joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Bell Helicopter has received two contract modifications worth potentially $411.9 million combined to repair various parts of the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The Bell Boeing Joint Program Office secured a $246.2 million delivery order modification that c...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiwzazkWUA8 On Oct. 21, the CH-53K King Stallion successfully completed initial operational testing by the U.S. Marine Corps, which included external lift scenarios of 27,000 lbs. (12,200 kg) in hover and a 12,000 lb. (5,422 kg) 110 nautical mile radius mission. Ground events included embarkation / debarkation of comb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 15, 2016 ” ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will provide data analytics services to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under contracts potentially worth a total of $44.5 million, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it won positions on two blanket purchase agreements with the National Center ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keNf_NFKqTQ Marines of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, conduct operations during Integrated Training Exercise 1-17 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2016 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) will support the U.S. Army in efforts to create modeling, simulation and training platforms for electro-optic/infrared and signals intelligence payloads under a three-year, $31 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The platforms will work to boos...
The State Department has approved foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $8.6 billion combined with Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Morocco. Saudi Arabia requested to buy 48 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) CH-47F Chinook helicopters, aircraft engines, GPS inertial navigation platforms, machine guns and common missile w...
Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) pending $250 million purchase of Laurel, Maryland-based cloud computing and digital services contractor Aquilent represents a selective entry into the GovCon acquisition landscape for a firm as it has made five purchases. McLean, Virginia-based Booz Allen largely sat out of last year’s ...
