Saab has received a potential two-year, $218.6 million contract from Sweden’s defense materiel administration to provide continued maintenance and support services for the country’s Gripen C/D multirole fighter aircraft. The company said Wednesday it will maintain components, procure equipment manage obsolescence, maintain spar...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2017 ” PV Puvvada, president of Unisys™ (NYSE: UIS) federal systems business, has said he believes agile acquisition and increased training for the information technology workforce will work to drive IT modernization efforts at federal agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Puvvada, an inductee into Execut...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2017 ” Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured a spot in Military Times’ list of Best for Vets Employers in 2017 for the company’s employment programs for military veterans, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. CTC said May 25 that 32 percent of its new hires and 15 percent of its total workforce...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received recognition for the fourth straight year for its recruitment and retention efforts toward military veterans in Military Times’ list of Best for Vets Employers in 2017, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it secured the 22nd spot in this year&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2017 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has entered into a partnership with CyrusOne (Nasdaq: CONE) for the latter to serve as a go-to-market data center provider to support CSRA’s federal government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. CyrusOne said Wednesday it will provide data center space and power and op...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2017 ” Engility (NYSE: EGL) has unveiled a new offering that will serve to support the migration of defense, intelligence and other government agencies to the cloud and address potential challenges in visibility and risk, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday Cloud Ascend utilizes ...
Ashley Godwin, formerly senior defense and government affairs adviser for the Shipbuilders Council of America, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as director of federal policy. HII said Wednesday she will help develop the company’s legislative and federal policy priorities in support of future sh...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received an $86.3 million contract modification to perform ancillary hardware and software upgrades to the F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft of the U.S. Navy and six international government customers. The modification includes foreign military sales to Australia, Canada, Finland, Kuwait, Malaysia an...
Stratolaunch, the world’s largest airplane, with a wingspan of 385 feet, a height of 50 feet and total possible weight of 1.3 million pounds, was quietly rolled out Wednesday in the California desert. The plane is meant to carry Pegasus XL rockets designed by Orbital ATK, a Dulles-based company, that would be tethered to the belly of...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has received a potential five-year, $244 million contract to provide training support services for the U.S. Navy™s Center for Surface Combat Systems. General Dynamics Information Technology will provide warfare training and curriculum development support for CSCS™ 15 learning areas...
