The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) a potential $91 million contract to repair and modernize nuclear aircraft carriers stationed at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility-supported locations. Huntington Ingalls will deploy personnel who have been trained and authorized to maintain nuclear car...
David Adams, a 20-year defense industry veteran and a certified public accountant, has joined Endeavor Robotics as chief financial officer at the Chelmsford, Mass.-based unmanned ground vehicle manufacturer. He will report directly to Endeavor CEO Sean Bielat and oversee the company’s financial activities that cover plannin...
General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has secured a potential six-year, $206 million contract to retrofit the latest variant of the U.S. Air Force‘s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. The Defense Department said Wednesday General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will update 122 MQ-9 Block 5 UAVs thro...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has received an $88.3 million contract to provide technology research and development services to a division within the U.S. Navy‘s Rapid Capability Engineering and Integration Department. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will support the ship and air integrated warfare ...
John Visentin, formerly operating partner at Advent International and senior adviser to the chairman at Exela Technologies (Nasdaq: XELA), has joined Xerox (NYSE: XRX) as CEO and vice chair of the company™s board of directors. Xerox said Tuesday Keith Cozza, Icahn Enterprises president and CEO, was named chairman of the technology firm™s b...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 16, 2018 ” A joint venture between subsidiaries of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and BWX Technologies has completed the transition period for a potential $1.39 billion contract from the Energy Department for environmental cleanup services at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, ExecutiveBiz ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 16, 2018 ” The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a $33.7 million contract modification for scientific and technical services in support of a program aimed at countering biological threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The modification exercises the first option period of a previously awarde...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 16, 2018 ” General Atomics™ aeronautical systems business has begun the three-week public demonstration of its Guardian remotely piloted aircraft in Nagasaki, Japan, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the demonstration of the Guardian RPA, which is designed to gather data to help develop guid...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 16, 2018 ” CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has received approval from the Justice Department to sell Level 3 Communications assets in the Tucson, Ariz., area to Utah-based FirstDigital Telecom, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The telecommunications company said Monday it will divest fiber network platforms as part of an agreement ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 16, 2018 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will utilize a software platform provided by Israel-based Assembrix that will work to secure intellectual property the U.S. company shares with vendors as part of design and additive manufacturing operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The memorandum of agreement between the comp...
