TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 27, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will perform work to extend the service life of the U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft beyond 6,000 flight hours under a $49.8 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will support the Service Life Assess...
Mary Legere, formerly a senior intelligence officer of the U.S. Army, has joined Accenture (NYSE: ACN) as managing director of national and defense intelligence business at the company’s federal services unit. Accenture said Thursday Legere will aim to bring the company’s digital, mission analytics and agile deve...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential six-year, $375 million contract from the Air Force Materiel Command to upgrade the baseline software for the Air and Space Operations Center Weapon System. The AOC WS platform works to help the service branch perform aircraft command-and-control operations at 22 sites worldwide, Raytheon said Wednesday. ...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business has received a $422.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain special tools and test equipment for the tenth batch of F-35 jets. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification covers purchases from the Navy, U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps as well a...
A Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) subsidiary has won a potential 10-year, $350 million contract from the U.S. Army to support remediation activities at the Shallow Land Disposal Area in Parks Township, Pennsylvania. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Jacobs Field Services North America will support the Army Corp...
Vectrus Systems (NYSE: VEC) has won a potential $115 million contract from the U.S. Army to continue operations and maintenance, information technology support and supply services for the U.S. Army Europe, U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command. The company said Wednesday the Operations, Maintenance and Supply“Europe contract h...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index moved opposite to market direction and closed up slightly to 93.084 or 0.290 percent. Advancers outpaced decliners 2 to 1. U.S. markets reversed their significantly positive movement from the past two days to close slightly down. Investors reacted cautiously to President Trump’s new tax plan due to c...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 26, 2017 ” BAE Systems has launched a new modular tool that works to help the aircrew of U.S. Army rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft detect, evaluate and counter potential threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the 3-Dimensional Advanced Warning System features a laye...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plays a starring role in President Donald Trump™s new executive orders, and CBP chief Ronald Vitiello spoke Wednesday morning at the Potomac Officers Club about the new opportunities and challenges ahead. Since Trump™s election, CBP has seen a œdramatic change in the flow of people coming to th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 26, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has entered into an agreement with Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) in which the former will act as a managed security service provider of the latter’s Security Fabric products to government and commercial customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Leidos said Tuesday its Fortinet offerin...
