A business segment of Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a one-year, $80 million contract option to sustain a variant of the U.S. Air Force‘s E-4B command post aircraft. Boeing Defense, Space & Security will help the service branch manage the E-4B program and procure spares as well as provide system integration laboratory, repair, ...
The Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory a potential five-year, $125 million contract to research, develop, integrate and engineer specialized sensor systems. APL will support multiple divisions within the advanced technologies office at DIA™s Directorate of Science and Technology...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 30, 2017 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) helped update a computing platform of the National Institutes of Health that recently gained recognition as one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the Biowulf cluster was ranked No. 66 in the 2017 list released by the Top500...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 30, 2017 ” BAE Systems, CAE, L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) and Ultra Electronics have teamed up in a bid to develop Canada’s future surface combatant vessels, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Lockheed said Tuesday the group called “Canada&#...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 30, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) veteran Craig Cooning has been named a board member at satellite communications technology firm BridgeSat amid the latter’s effort to develop an advanced optical communications network, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. BridgeSat said Tuesday the addition of Cooni...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 30, 2017 ” ECS Federal will provide environmental and professional services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Office of Sustainable Fisheries under a potential $9.1 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it will support data analysis, p...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 30, 2017 ” Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into a strategic alliance and placed an investment with quantum computing software developer 1QBit in the former’s effort to advance quantum-based analytics technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the expanded partnership aims...
Cubic‘s (NYSE: CUB) global defense segment has landed a spot on a potential five-year, $975 million contract vehicle for training, communications and technical support to various U.S. Army mission training complexes. Dave Buss, president of Cubic Global Defense, said in a statement published Thursday the company seeks to leverage its ...
Comprehensive Health Services has established a new board of advisers that will work to provide strategic guidance to the executive leadership in support of the Cape Canaveral, Florida-based workforce medical services contractor™s business capture and development efforts within the Defense Department. The company said Wednesday the ne...
Shareholders at Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) have approved a deal for Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to acquire the Dulles, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor in an estimated $9.2 billion transaction. Holders of at least 99 percent of shares in Orbital ATK voted to approve the merger during the Wednesday meeting, the company said Wednesday. Nor...
