Four companies have won separate potential five-year contracts to provide engineering and technical support for the U.S. Navy™s command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems and information technology platforms. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific received four offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 16, 2017 ” CAE will roll out an unmanned aerial vehicle training system to the United Arab Emirates as the country’s selected training systems integrator, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Aviation Week reported Monday that Gene Colabatistto, president of CAE™s defense and security group, note...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 16, 2017 ” Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services unit has secured provisional authorization for its platform-as-a-service cloud technology under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the Accenture Insights Platform for Governmen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 16, 2017 ” Inmarsat has launched a new service that will facilitate international broadcast and automatic reception for the distribution of maritime safety information, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday SafetyNET II works to advance efforts to update the Global Maritime Distres...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 16, 2017 ” Jacobs (NYSE: JEC) has unveiled a new facility in Navi Mumbai, India, that will serve to support the expansion of its global integrated delivery services presence in the country, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the Gigaplex Office is designed to house more than 2,000 em...
Versar has gone private after the close of its acquisition by an affiliate of investment firm Kingswood Capital Management via a tender offer of $0.15 per outstanding share and a second-step merger. The formerly publicly traded project management company said Tuesday the new capital structure serves to build on its long-term strategic...
The U.S. Army has awarded seven companies spots on a potential five-year, $150 million contract to support the service branch’s mission training complex systems. Eighteen bids were submitted to the Army Contracting Command for the hybrid contract via an online solicitation and work is scheduled to occur through Nov. 14, 2022, the Defense Depar...
The State Department has approved Norway’s request to buy Raytheon-built (NYSE: RTN) AIM-120 C-7 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles under a potential $170 million foreign military sales agreement. Raytheon’s missile systems business unit will serve as prime contractor of the proposed sale that covers 60 AMRAAMs and assoc...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2017 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) CEO Matt Desch, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, has joined the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, GovCon Executive reported Nov. 8. The council said Nov. 7 Desch joins three other newly appointed board members, ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 15, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a 100-percent rating in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2018 Corporate Equality Index report on workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The company said Thursday it also earned the designation as a “Best Pl...
