TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2016 ” Hughes Network Systems has launched a new enterprise-grade wide-area network optimization tool designed to assist multi-branch organizations in providing network support across branch locations, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Dec. 15 the Hughes ActiveClassifier will work to automatic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2016 ” Professional Services Council has appointed Carey Smith, president of Parsons‘ federal business unit, to be the secretary of the trade association’s board of directors, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. Smith will also continue to serve as a member of PSC’s executive committee for anot...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2016 ” BWX Technologies‘ nuclear operations group has received a $35 million contract from General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary to develop and construct Virginia Payload Module launch tubes for the Virginia-class submarine program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The VPM tub...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2016 ” The State Department has approved the $37 million sale of 750 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) Joint Direct Attack Munition tail kits and associated equipment to the government of Kuwait, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday the foreign military sales contract wil...
The U.S. Navy has awarded DLT Solutions a potential five-year, $133.4 million blanket purchase agreement to provide Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) software licenses for the service branch. The BPA has a base ordering term of one year worth approximately $22.8 million and four option years for firm-fixed-price task orders, the Defense Department said Tuesday. T...
Bechtel™s plant machinery company has received a $303.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, sole-source contract to provide nuclear propulsion components to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. will carry out work in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and Schenectady, New York, under the Naval Nuclear Propulsion prog...
Donald Wetekam, vice president of government and defense business development at AAR‘s aviation services sector, and Jeffrey Wehrenberg, previously chief operating officer at the company’s airlift division, have been appointed to lead AAR Airlift. The company said Thursday Wetekam and Wehrenberg will report to John Ho...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded higher Tuesday to start the final trading week of 2016 as GCI-S&P 500 company Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) led gains in conjunction with positive performances by mid- and lower-tier primes and services contractors. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by a 2-to-1 ratio and eig...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 27, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) will host a three-day program on space exploration in an effort to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics to high school students, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Higher Orbits’s Go For Launch! event will will be held at Orbital ATK’s Dulles headquarters ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 27, 2016 ” A team of companies led by BAE Systems will support the assessment phase of the Challenger 2 Life Extension Project that seeks to modernize the main battle tanks of the British Army under an agreement with the U.K. defense ministry, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the coa...
