TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 14, 2017 ” CAE has entered into a partnership with business school HEC Montreal’s research laboratory in Canada to study pilots’ user experience in flight simulators in efforts to build on aviator performance, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it will collaborate with T...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 14, 2017 ” A General Atomics business unit will demonstrate configured MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles for the Missile Defense Agency during test activities under a $30.3 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Defense Department said Tuesday General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems wil...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has won a potential three-year, $173 million task order from the U.S. Army to develop simulation and modeling tools for sensor and imaging systems. The company said Thursday it will support the Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate under the task order that was awarded through the Rapi...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential $599.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to conduct preliminary design activities to convert a pair of 747-8 aircraft into presidential planes. The modification covers the initial design of the future Air Force One fleet that includes the integration of a mission comm...
Manik Rath, formerly a senior vice president at LMI, has been named chief operating officer at Vienna, Virginia-based human capital and information technology services provider C2 Technologies. Rath has more than two decades™ experience in human capital, IT and management consulting in the public sector in support of intelligence and defense ag...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $676.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to build and deliver six Lot 41 F/A-18E and eight F/A-18F Super Hornet jets. The Defense Department said Wednesday Boeing will perform work in Arizona, California, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Texas, Canada and other locations within the U.S. through ...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index (GCI) closed down 0.421 percent to 101.803. Declining outpaced advancing shares 23 to 7. All three major indices reached new highs. The S&P500 closed up 0.08 percent to 2,498.37, while the DJIA gained 0.18 percent to 22,158.18, and the NASDAQ Composite moved up 0.09 percent to close at 6,460.19. Crude ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2017 ” Greg Souchack, partner for managed services and cloud solutions at IBM™s (NYSE: IBM) global business services unit, has said the company’s Watson artificial intelligence technology will work to help the U.S. Army perform an analysis of the cost of transporting military equipment...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2017 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) will collaborate with Magnitude Space to study the potential of low-power global area network technology to deliver space-based internet of things services, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The memorandum of understanding between the two companies is part of Iridium’s ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 13, 2017 ” Harris (NYSE: HRS) has added an encryption feature to its suite of Falcon III AN/PRC-117G manpack tactical radios to support military users as they switch across independent, U.S. and NATO networks, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday the Suite B security function ...
