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TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to hold flight tests on a company-built unmanned reusable suborbital spaceplane at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday that Boeing and DARPA have selected Cape Cana...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has named the 19 winning local and regional governments, school districts, agencies and companies in the 2017 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the winners fall under the Best Practices, Dream Big and Pa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Dell Technologies‘ (NYSE: DVMT) Virtustream and Pivotal businesses have collaborated to provide an enterprise-grade cloud service that works to support the rapid development and deployment of applications in hybrid cloud environments, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Virtustream said Wednesday t...
The Department of Defense is planning to send between 3,000 to 5,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, reports CBS News. An announcement on the exact number from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected in the next few days or weeks. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has said that he cannot counter an increasingly violent, resurgent...
The Energy Department will award six companies three-year contracts worth $258 million in total to research and develop large-scale supercomputers. DOE said Thursday it will issue funds through its Exascale Computing Project as part of the department’s new PathForward program that seeks to create the first exascale supercomputer...
The General Services Administration has added approximately 500 small businesses to a list of contractors that won positions on the agency’s 8(a)Â Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II open season contract. GSA said Thursday 8(a) STARS II is a governmentwide acquisition contract designed to provide federal agencies acc...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential two-year, $471.7 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to manufacture full-rate production 12 Multiple Launch Rocket System components for France, Germany, Finland and Singapore. Lockheed™s missile and fire control business will deliver 2,868 guided MLRS al...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) missions systems business has secured a five-year, $250 million contract to modify, test and sustain a ground-based system the U.S. Army uses to obtain tactical signals intelligence. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also provide training services for the Prophet system under the&...
Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has landed a potential $146.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to repair 35 items used on the UH-1Y utility helicopter and the AH-1Z attack helicopter. The Defense Department said Thursday the firm-fixed-price contract contains a two-year base period that will run thr...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has received a potential five-year, $90.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide hardware and sustainment and training services for video data link devices. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes foreign military sales to Australia and a provision for other eligible ...
