Kevin Boyle, former senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Vencore, has joined Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) as its SVP, chief legal officer and general counsel. He succeeds Michele Tyler, who will stay in her SVP role to assist with the transition, Vectrus said Wednesday. Chuck Prow, president and CEO of Vectrus and a four-tim...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has launched a new organization to build communications and computing platforms for government and commercial aerospace applications. Charles Toups, formerly vice president and general manager of Boeing’s research and technology unit, will lead the Disruptive Computing and Networks organization that will operate in Southern C...
Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) mission systems business has landed a potential five-year, $697M contract to update system configuration sets of the EA-18G Growler aircraft for the U.S. Navy and Australia as a foreign military sales customer. The company will also augment airborne electronic attack and warfare systems, and apply the final ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 17, 2018 ” Modern Technology Solutions Inc. will collaborate with NASA to develop a framework for the certification of autonomous aircraft systems in line with the requirements of the Federal Aviation Administration, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday it will build software code and algor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 17, 2018 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured certification from the CMMI Institute for Level 3 maturity under the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development framework for process improvement, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the CMMI-DEV Maturity Level 3 rating serves to signif...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 17, 2018 ” A subsidiary of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has entered into a licensing agreement with Harris (NYSE: HRS) to integrate the former’s communication waveforms with the latter’s tactical radio systems for the U.S. Air Force, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Kratos RT Logic wi...
ViON has won a potential 10-year, $329.6M contract to provide SPARC processor capacity services at Defense Information Systems Agency data centers. DISA received two proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will obligate $630K in fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds on th...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has received a potential $136.8M contract to obtain long lead-time materials and provide pre-production and engineering support for the U.S. Navy™s Expeditionary Sea Base 6. NASSCO would use the funds to acquire components for the base’s propeller and shafting, centrifugal pumps, fue...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 16, 2018 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a U.S. Army award in recognition of its support in the assessment of the energy and water conservation program at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Army said Thursday a Secretary of the Army Energy and Water Management Award...
Patrick Sullivan, senior director of global security strategy at Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), has said agencies that aim to eliminate cyber vulnerabilities should use DevOps and agile methods. œAgencies need to be extremely agile to stay ahead of vulnerabilities, and as they move to models that are heavily based on automation and DevOps,...
