TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 21, 2019 ” American Systems, F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) teamed up to deliver a cloud-based system that will work to notify U.S. Air Force personnel about emergency situations, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. F5 said it received a referral from cloud provider Microsoft Azure to help American Syst...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 21, 2019 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) received an award from the Mobile Satellite Users Association during the Satellite 2019 conference in recognition of the company’s Certus satellite communications service, ExecutiveBiz reported May 8. The organization named Iridium Certus the “Top Connected Plat...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has agreed to acquire Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) for approximately $1.3B in cash, or $35 per share, in a move to expand high-performance computing technology offerings. HPE said Friday it expects the deal to conclude by the first quarter of its fiscal year 2020 and to shoulder one-time integration costs that...
NASA has awarded eight U.S. firms a total of $4M to investigate concepts that will aid existing and future space transmission systems. The goal of their five-month research period is to gain data that will assist near-Earth missions that are scheduled to begin in the mid-2020s. The agency said Thursday that it plans to develop...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2019 ” Siemens‘ New Jersey-based central research and development unit will collaborate with the Department of Energy to develop a system that will work to manage distributed energy resources under a $6.4M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Ulrich Muenz and Sindhu Suresh of Siemens Corporate Technology, a...
Tom Arseneault, chief operating officer of BAE Systems’ U.S. arm, has assumed additional duties as president of the subsidiary. He was also named to the board of directors of BAE Systems Inc. and will assume functional leadership responsibilities, the company said Thursday. “Tom has a proven track record leading complex organizat...
DynCorp International has secured a potential eight-year, $2.45B contract to provide aviation field maintenance and sustainment level maintenance services to the U.S. Army AFM Directorate. The company said Thursday it help manage AFMD programs, maintain aircraft and ground support equipment, modify aircraft platforms and perform logistical work in t...
Harris (NYSE: HRS) received a three-year, $284M contract extension from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to continue updating the ground computing infrastructure used to manage geostationary weather satellites. The award covers the modernization of information technology systems for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Sate...
Carlos Hernandez, who was named interim CEO at Fluor (NYSE: FLR) on May 1, has been confirmed by the board of directors as full-time CEO of the company. Fluor said Thursday Hernandez will also join the company™s board of directors. œCarlos™ engineering and legal background, combined with his 12 years successfully serving in executive ...
Foster Fuels has won a five-year, $475.8M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver different kinds of fuel to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. DLA’s energy organization received nine responses for the fixed-price, economic-price-adjustment contract via a competitive procurement, the Department of Defense said Thursday. The...
