TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 ” A General Atomics business unit has added five more industry partners to support work on an Australian government project that aims to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the new members of the Gener...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) has entered into a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to establish a $240 million laboratory that will facilitate joint research and development efforts in artificial intelligence, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday it will work with MIT to op...
Weekly Roundup September 4 – September 8 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson As the summer comes to a close, let’s take a quick look at the public-to-private sector executive moves over the past few months. A number of high ranking public sector offici...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has built an unmanned vehicle prototype that works to operate both underwater and in the air to collect data on large bodies of water, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The lab said Wednesday the Flying Fish is a fixed-wing, unmanned aerial-aquatic ve...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 ” Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will collaborate with Vazata to offer a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certified cloud technology to government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Vazata said Wednesday it will serve as the exclusive operations provider o...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 8, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has appointed Troy Lahr, vice president of investor relations, to serve as chief financial officer of the autonomous systems business and board member at the company’s United Launch Alliance joint venture with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) beginning Sept. 22, GovCon Executive reported Thu...
Ann Stefanek, spokeswoman for the U.S. Air Force, has said that L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has selected the Gulfstream Aerospace-built Gulfstream 550 airborne early warning aircraft to replace the military branch’s current electronic attack platform, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. The Air Force contracted L3 to move electronic war...
Four companies have received separate contracts from the Customs and Border Protection to build prototypes of the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall using materials other than concrete. CBP said Thursday agency officials will meet with the four awardees – Caddell Construction, ELTA North America, KWR Construction and W.G. Yates &a...
Christopher Davis, formerly country leader and president of Raytheon™s (NYSE: RTN) business arm in the United Arab Emirates, has been named president of the Waltham, Massachusetts-based defense contractor™s international business organization. Davis succeeds Thomas Vecchiolla, who retired after a 15-year tenure with the firm, and will dire...
Navy Vice Adm. Mathias Winter, head of the F-35 joint program office, has said he expects JPO to close a deal with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for lot 11 F-35 Lightning II aircraft by Oct. 15, Defense News reported Thursday. Winter told reporters Wednesday after his speech at the Defense News Conference the JPO has completed a proposa...
