Orolia has agreed to purchase GPS and global navigation satellite system threat mitigation platforms provider Talen-X for an undisclosed sum. Jean-Yves Courtois, Orolia CEO, said in a statement published Tuesday the acquisition seeks to reinforce the company™s position as an assured positioning, navigation and timing technology platforms provid...
The State Department has approved Spain’s request to purchase CH-47F Chinook cargo helicopters and related equipment under a potential $1.3 billion foreign military sales agreement. Boeing (NYSE: BA) will serve as prime contractor of the possible sale, which covers 17 Chinooks with customer-unique modifications, 21 AN/AAR-5...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 4, 2018 ” The Australian government™s signals directorate has added Microsoft™s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure and Office 365 offerings to the Certified Cloud Services List, allowing the technology provider to host data at the protected level, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Microsoft said Tuesday the Protected Level cer...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 4, 2018 ” SOS International is set to sign a partnership agreement with the U.S. Army to provide job opportunities to soldiers under the service branch™s Partnership for Youth Success program, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. SOSi said Monday the PaYS program, which has more than 600 partners across industry, aca...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 4, 2018 ” Comprehensive Health Services has promoted Kasia Popiel Jenurm, director of application and database solutions, to vice president of information technology, with responsibility over the development of application products and technical support services, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Sunda...
AECOM announced Wednesday it will partner with IFS to strengthen its supply chain using the latter™s IFS Applications, a software suite for critical business processes such as supply chain management, predictive maintenance and digital transformation. The integrated application suite will expand AECOM™s service offerings, increase efficien...
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW) has closed its $212.5 million cash acquisition of the Dresser-Rand government business from Siemens in a move to expand aftermarket support for the U.S. Navy and footprint on the service branch™s nuclear ships. Dresser-Rand will mainly focus its sales efforts on the naval defense market and wil...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has concluded its approximately $9.7 billion acquisition of CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) in a push to establish a combined government information technology services contractor. CSRA will operate as part of General Dynamics™ IT business and will stop trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a result of the transaction, Ge...
Paul Mountford, formerly senior vice president and chief sales officer at Riverbed Technology, has been selected to succeed the retiring Jerry Kennelly as CEO of the San Francisco-based digital platforms provider. Riverbed said Tuesday Kennelly, who will retire after 16 years at the helm, will serve in an advisory capacity in support of the company&...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $247.5 million contract to design, build and test a supersonic aircraft for NASA. NASA said Tuesday the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract calls for the development of a Low-Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft, dubbed X-plane, designed to travel at a speed of about 940 miles per hour at 55,...
