General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has received a $714M delivery order to modernize 174 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks for the U.S. Army. The company said Tuesday it will equip the vehicles with version 3 of the M1A2 System Enhancement Package that includes updated communications and armor technologies. The order ...
Cadence Aerospace, a portfolio company of investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has named former Pratt & Whitney executive Kevin Martin as chief information officer. The more than 30-year industry veteran most recently served as associate director of military engines business development at the United Technologies Corp....
Sue Barsamian, a former executive vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), and Marvell Technology Group Chairman Richard Hill have joined Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) as independent directors. Their addition brings the number of Symantec board members to 13, the company said Tuesday. Greg Clark, president and CEO at Symant...
R.R. Donnelley & Sons (NYSE: RRD) has won a potential $114.5M contract from the Government Publishing Office to produce printing materials and provide mailing services for Census Bureau‘s population survey in 2020. The company will manufacture envelopes, letters, inserts, postscards and questionnaires designed to help p...
Carter Smith, former director of business development at Pyramid Systems and BruinWave Solutions, has taken the same role at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, G2XChange ETC reported Tuesday. He previously served as an account executive for homeland security and public safety at Allegis Group̵...
Leonardo DRS and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems have received a $79.6M contract to supply the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps with active protection systems designed to protect combat ground vehicles from anti-armor rockets and missiles. The industry team will provide additional TROPHY systems and the contract will bring the total f...
Six companies have won potential five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-delivery contracts to provide program and technical support services to the Federal Highway Administration‘s Office of Policy. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says contractors will perform research efforts to support the development of transportation trend analysis p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2018 ” The Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) life sciences business unit has been awarded a patent for peptide-based PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors via the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office‘s accelerated application review process for cancer immunotherapy-related discoveries, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2018 ” General Atomics will integrate a France-supplied sensor-based data collection payload with a 242.5-pound Orbital Test Bed satellite that it will launch for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under a U.S. Air Force order, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2018 ” David Egts, chief technologist for the North American public sector business at Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), has identified open source training as an approach that the federal government can take to advance the cybersecurity and information technology skills of its workforce, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “...
