Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) has received a potential 10-year, $10 billion contract to help the Department of Veterans Affairs deploy the same electronic health record platform the Defense Department currently adopts. Robert Wilkie, acting VA secretary, said in a statement published Thursday that VA already has $782 million in fiscal 2018 funds t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2018 ” CAE‘s U.S. business will provide instructors and support services for primary, intermediate and advanced ground-based U.S. Navy pilot training over a potential five-year period, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday CAE USA received a contract with the Chief of Naval Air Trai...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2018 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and its partner Kymeta will hold demonstrations of land, maritime and first responder platforms that use the former’s cloud-based services and the latter’s KyWay satellite terminals as part of their presentation at two industry events this month, ExecutiveBiz ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2018 ” John Vollmer, president of the management services group at AECOM (NYSE: ACM), has said the company is well positioned to address the increased focus of the U.S. government on infrastructure based on the recent federal spending bill. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Tuesday that it ...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential three-year, $239.5 million task order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for information technology services. The fixed-price task order with USACE™s engineering and support center in Alabama has a base term of one year and two one-year options and was awarded through the General Services Adm...
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...
