Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $194.5M modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract that provides for production concurrency updates to the U.S. Navy‘s and the Australian government’s P-8A Aircrew Training System. The system requires these updates to accommodate initial training for future mission functions, the Defen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 12, 2018 ” BAE Systems has begun the development of its future facility in Huntsville, Ala., to house the production of aircraft survivability and precision munition systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Rocket City Now reported Monday the $45.5M project will result in an 83K-square-foot facility, which ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 12, 2018 ” Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ (Nasdaq: HDP) U.S. public sector business, has said government agencies should integrate security measures as they increasingly leverage the internet of things to manage data across multiple sources, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 5. Bierweiler said in a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 12, 2018 ” ECS has been named a direct partner in a Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) program that enables it to offer the latter’s cloud services to its public and private sector customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The science, technology and engineering company said Monday it will deliver Azure, Offic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 12, 2018 ” SOS International has secured a potential $5M contract from the U.S. Army for technical, accounting and human resources support to the security cooperation office of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the contract covers support for U.S....
John Fraser, formerly an executive vice president of ASM Research, has been promoted to president of the Fairfax, Va.-based subsidiary of Accenture™s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm. He succeeds the retiring Eric Warden, a 25-year ASM Research veteran who assumed the role of president in September 2016, Accenture Federal Services said. œJohn Frase...
Advanced Technology International has received a $400M “other transaction” agreement modification from the U.S. Air Force to continue to manage a consortium tasked with developing prototypes of space-related technology platforms for the Defense Department. DoD said Tuesday ATI will further guide the Space Enterprise Consortium ...
Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a potential $51M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support installation of close-in weapons systems on U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy ships. Reston, Va.-based Serco Inc. said Wednesday it will help the military services install, update and mod...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected six entities to conduct advanced geospatial analytics research efforts as part of the Boosting Innovative GEOINT Broad Agency Announcement program. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), OGSystems and SRI International will leverage machine learning technologies for agricultural crop assessment, spec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 11, 2018 ” Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM), has said the company is looking to help get Aireon‘s aircraft monitoring service live with the potential completion of the Iridium NEXT satellite network by the end of the year, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 4. NASASpaceflight.com reported...
