TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2018 ” AT&T (NYSE: T) has expanded the coverage area of its LTE services for first responders by more than 50K square miles in a move to bolster the FirstNet public safety communications network, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the additional LTE coverage develope...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2018 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) is set to open a new facility in Albuquerque, N.M., that is aimed to generate additional job opportunities in the region as the company works to drive growth in its aerospace business, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Albuquerque Journal reported Wednesday that a sp...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2018 ” Amazon Web Services has collaborated with ECS to offer a file-sharing system that works to automate tasks such as hardware provisioning, software configuration, data backup and patching, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. ECS said Thursday it is a launch partner of the Amazon FSx for Windows File ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2018 ” Phil Carrai, president of the Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) technology and training solutions division, has highlighted the growing importance of ground systems amid recent trends in the increasingly competitive satellite telecommunications industry, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) a potential five-year, $1.76B contract to support company-made products for the Department of Defense, U.S. Coast Guard and the intelligence community. DoD said Friday the company will provide engineering services to help software developers and other product teams utilize knowledge database, t...
David Rowland, a 35-year Accenture (NYSE: ACN) veteran, has been appointed to serve as CEO of the global professional services contractor on an interim basis. He succeeds Pierre Nanterme, who resigned the post due to health issues and intends to support his successor in an advisory role, the company said Friday. Rowland became CFO in...
Robert Cleave, a 13-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and founder of satellite operator Xtar, has been named chief revenue officer of space launch company Vector. He will lead a line of business as well as budgeting, customer acquisition and partnership efforts in his new position, Vector said Thursday. The three-d...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 11, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has named Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a partner in its effort to develop a missile-detection platform for the U.S. Air Force that would succeed the current Space Based Infrared System satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Raytheon said Wednesday it will help design the payloa...
Textron (NYSE: TXT) closed its acquisition of Waterboro, Maine-based robotic ground vehicle maker Howe & Howe Technologies on Dec. 17, Defense News reported Thursday. Textron announced its intent to buy Howe & Howe in October 2018 in a push to expand its autonomous technology offerings across land, air and maritime d...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential four-year, $86.2M contract to provide support services for a radar system the U.S. Army uses in tactical reconnaissance missions. The company will support the military branch’s Starlite system through Jan. 31, 2023, under the hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract,&nb...
