The U.S. Army has awarded AECOM (NYSE: ACM) a potential nine-year, $442 million contract to help train rotary-wing aviators at Fort Rucker in Alabama. AECOM said Tuesday it can now continue to provide personnel, supervision and related services to support the Army’s rotary wing flight training efforts after the servi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, JANUARY 16, 2017 “ The Potomac Officers Club ” a division of Executive Mosaic ” has added two panelists to its list of speakers for the third Defense Research and Development Summit. The panelists are: Dr. Thomas Burns (DARPA) and Maj. Gen. William Cooley (Air Force Research Laboratory). Given the rapid pace at...
Matt Vaughan, formerly senior vice president within Leidos™ (NYSE: LDOS) health business, has been named president of the contract research organization at Battelle. He succeeds Steve Kelly, who retired Jan. 2 after a 25-year career at the Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit research and development company, Battelle said Tuesday. œMatt br...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 12, 2018 ” Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel‘s (Nasdaq: INTC) public sector business in the Americas, is scheduled to be a panelist at a Northern Virginia Technology Council event on Jan. 31, GovCon Executive reported. He will participate in a discussion on deep learning technologies and their applicatio...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 12, 2018 ” A General Atomics business unit is set to receive work to supply contractor-owned/contractor-operated unmanned aircraft systems for Task Force Southwest’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Naval Air Systems Command said in a FedBizOpps n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 12, 2018 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has unveiled a prototype electric unmanned aerial vehicle that it aims to use as a testbed for the development of autonomous and electric propulsion technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the vertical-takeoff-and-landing multicopter UAV will serve a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 12, 2018 ” The Orbital ATK-built (NYSE: OA) GovSat-1 multimission satellite has been shipped to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in preparation for its launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the end of the month, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. GovSat said Thursday the satellite will work to suppor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 12, 2018 ” Avaya has formed a new cloud business and hired Mercer Rowe, IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) former vice president of strategic partners for the Watson and cloud computing platforms, as the new unit’s senior VP and general manager, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday Row...
Gus Bontzos, formerly vice president and general manager of Peraton™s former advanced solutions organization, has been appointed president of the Herndon, Virginia-based company™s defense and electronic warfare sector. The defense and electronic warfare is one of the two newly established sectors that will serve as Peraton™s rese...
Shareholders at Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) have cleared a deal for United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) to acquire the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics contractor for approximately $30 billion. Holders of at least 72 percent of outstanding shares in Rockwell Collins as of record date voted to approve the transaction during the Thursday...
