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SRI International has received a pair of contracts worth a combined $90 million to help the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority assess compounds that have potential to treat people exposed to chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons. The company said Wednesday that both contracts have a base ...
Peter Oosterveer, chief operating officer of Fluor (NYSE: FLR), is set to depart the construction and engineering services contractor by the end of March after a 28-year career there. Fluor said Wednesday Oosterveer will retire from the company and return to his native country of Netherlands for another job. He pre...
Michael Atcheson, formerly program director of the international business unit at Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) mission systems sector, has been named president of command and control technologies group at Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL). He succeeds Richard Burt, the group™s acting president who will continue to serve...
NASA has awarded contracts worth approximately $100 million combined to 133 proposals from at least 112 small businesses that aim to perform research and development work on technology platforms designed for use in future deep space missions. The agency said Thursday it selected the proposals under the second phase of the Small Business Innovat...
Hanover, Maryland-based cyber and geospatial services contractor KeyW (Nasdaq: KEYW) has agreed to purchase Herndon, Virginia-based national security technology provider Sotera Defense Solutions for $235 million cash in a push to add new and complementary work with the intelligence community and related government custo...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed down for the day to 92.912 off -0.092%. The major market closed mixed as investors wait to see what the Fed will do with interest rates. The Dow was down 0.33% to close at 20,855.73, the S&P500 off 5.41 points to close at 2,362.98, and the NASDAQ was positive 0.06% to...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 8, 2017 ” Hughes Network Systems has entered into an agreement with General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business for updates to the satellite communications system of a Predator B remotely piloted aircraft variant, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Hughes said Monday it will equip the Predator B...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 8, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has partnered with ISC2’s Center for Cyber Safety and Education in efforts to advance women’s interest in cybersecurity and offer six new scholarship opportunities, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon™s intelligence, information and...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 8, 2017 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has officially opened its new training facility for U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force fixed-wing pilots at the Dothan Regional Airport in Alabama, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the Dothan Training Center will work to support the initial-entry flight train...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 8, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled its new data analytics and visualization offerings called HDInsight and Power BI as part of the Azure Government cloud platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said in a blog post published Monday the services will work to help government users manage, ana...
