TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 19, 2018 ” A new Accenture (NYSE: ACN) report has found that many federal information technology executives experience continued challenges in their efforts to modernize IT, particularly in the alignment of technology priorities with mission objectives, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The professional services fi...
The Carlyle Group (Nasdaq: CG) has agreed to purchase StandardAero from Veritas Capital for an undisclosed sum. The Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm said Tuesday it expects to close the deal by the end of the first quarter of calendar year 2019, pending regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based St...
Kathryn Woodward, formerly senior director of business development at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business, has been appointed a director of business development at Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services unit, G2XChange ETC reported Tuesday. She has led GDIT’s efforts to identify business opportu...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential five-year, $585.2M delivery order from the Missile Defense Agency to design and produce a homeland defense radar system for installation in Oahu, Hawaii. MDA obligated $51.4M in initial research development test and evaluation funds for project that commenced Tuesday and will continue through Dec. ...
A joint venture of American Systems and Millennium Engineering and Integration will compete for engineering and technical support service task orders under NASA™s potential eight-year, $264M contract. New Horizons Aeronautics will deliver services in support of the agency™s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., American Syst...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has won a potential 10-year, $323.9M contract to provide x86 processor capacity services to the Defense Information Systems Agency. DISA set a $770K minimum guarantee on the indefinite-delivery/indefinite“quantity, firm-fixed-price contract and will allocate $675K of the guaranteed amount for the init...
A managed affiliate of General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology segment has received a potential $208M contract to provide new technology and support services to the Department of Education. SRA International was awarded the Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies-Integration contract that has a six-month base ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a $141.4M contract option to manufacture a fifth batch of air-launched, precision-strike glide bombs. Raytheon’s missile systems business will produce 1.2K Small Diameter Bomb II munitions, 389 single-weapon containers and 344 dual-weapon containers, the Dep...
Imaging satellite operator Planet has agreed to buy geospatial data management software vendor Boundless Spatial for an undisclosed sum to expand the former’s business in the public sector and commercial agriculture markets. San Francisco-based Planet said Tuesday it aims to increase utilization of its imager...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential five-year, $91.7M contract to deliver training systems for aircrew and maintenance personnel of the U.S. Navy‘s and U.S. Air Force‘s F/A-18E/F and EA-18G planes. The company will also update training equipment for both aircraft platforms in an effort to interoperability with the F...
