Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $139.8 million order from the U.S. Army‘s Special Operations Aviation Command for four modernized MH-47G Chinook helicopters. The Army will add Chinooks with Block II configuration to the service branch’s current fleet of 69 MH-47G units, Boeing said Wednesday. The company expects ...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has agreed to purchase information security firms Linchpin Labs and Azimuth Security for approximately $200 million combined in a push to develop synergies for future growth and build up its cyber, surveillance and intelligence collection capabilities. L3 said Wednesday the acquired companies will operate as L3 Trenchant ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 11, 2018 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will carry out advanced systems engineering and technical services supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under four new task orders worth up to $60 million in total, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Fairfax, Va.-based technology company will assist DARP...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 11, 2018 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has expanded its alliance with Guardtime Federal to equip the Fort Worth, Texas-based aerospace and defense contractor™s aircraft systems and processes with cyber and data integrity measures as part of efforts to address the threat of data manipulation, ExecutiveBiz report...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 11, 2018 ” Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) is expanding its data center located in Phoenix to address the growing demand for data services from the company™s new and existing customers in the region, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday it has initiated a two-phase construction project that will establis...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 11, 2018 ” BAE Systems is collaborating with L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) to transfer the former’s Compass Call electronic warfare technology from the legacy EC-130H to the newer EC-37B aircraft as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Cross Deck program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 11, 2018 ” Richard White, president of the government systems business at SSL, has explained that spacecraft client design, orbit and other requirements may influence the on-orbit satellite servicing process, which he said generally involves rendezvous between servicer and client, capture, servicing tasks using robotic a...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) have landed spots on a potential five-year, $4.1 billion contract to develop and deliver radar platforms to the Missile Defense Agency. All three companies will vie for task orders to provide autonomous acquisition and persistent precision tracking and discr...
Vishal Gupta, senior vice president for engineering at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), will serve as chief technology officer and SVP for technology at Unisys (NYSE: UIS) starting Aug. 31. He will directly report to Unisys CEO Peter Altabef and succeed Tarek El-Sadany, who will leave by the end of August to assume a CEO role...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 10, 2018 ” Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) will unveil this week the BQM-177A subsonic aerial target system that it developed under a $34.6 million U.S. Navy contract modification, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The target drone will replace the existing platform that the service branch uses to s...
