William “Bill†Parsons, an 18-year NASA veteran, has been named president of Syncom Space Services, a joint venture of PAE and BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT). Parsons will oversee S3’s operations at NASA that include management of facility operations, test and manufacturing services and maintenance requirements at Stennis Sp...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a one-year, $140 million contract modification to provide payload and operations support for an airborne communications relay that works to help warfighters transmit data and gain situational awareness. Northrop will perform support work on the Battlefield Airborne ...
General Electric (NYSE: GE) will remanufacture F110 military aircraft engines for the U.S. Air Force under a $98.1 million firm-fixed-priced delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency. The Defense Department said Tuesday that GE will perform work through through Oct. 30, 2018, in Ohio and Kansas. DLA’s...
Dirk Hoke, CEO of Airbus‘ defense and space segment, has said he expects to see changes to military spending in Europe next year and anticipates “intensive” discussions among European countries about the future of NATO, Reuters reported Tuesday. “This discussion is long overdue when you consider that only five...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index tumbled Tuesday on declines from major military shipbuilders and defense technology makers as U.S. stocks traded lower with a 2.28-percent decline by financial shares the main contributor after a three-day weekend for equity markets. GovCon Index laggards outnumbered advancers by an...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 17, 2017 ” A Maximus (NYSE: MMS) subsidiary was awarded a spot under Region Six of a framework contract that will support the U.K. government’s delivery of employment and health services, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Maximus said Thursday Remploy may bid for prime contracts through the U.K...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) CEO Dennis Muilenburg told reporters Tuesday after his hour-long meeting with President-elect Donald Trump that the company has moved forward on efforts in “simplifying requirements” for the future Air Force One replacement airplane with combat jets also a topic of discussion there. Trump first criticized the ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 17, 2017 ” Harris (NYSE: HRS) has received a three-year contract from the National Spectrum Consortium to build a narrowband configuration of the Defense Department‘s open-standard voice and data waveform, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Wednesday the narrowband mode for the Soldier Ra...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 17, 2017 ” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Vencore‘s research arm a 17-month, $2.5 million contract to help update airborne systems and networks under a program that seeks to ensure uninterrupted communications, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Vencore Labs will ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 17, 2017 ” Dawn Scalici, global government business director at Thomson Reuters, has said government agencies will need to adopt data strategies and collaborate with the private sector to help utilize both internal and external data to support mission objectives. She told ExecutiveBiz in an int...
