TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has updated the GESI constructive simulation software for command and staff training at the Austrian Army’s Landesverteidigungsakademie education facility in Weitra, Austria, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The update is designed to allow the system to interoperate with va...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 ” Cloudera has partnered with Docker to create an integrated platform that will work to allow government agencies to use cryptographically secured containers for data transfers, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The platform is based on Docker’s Commercially Supported Docker Engines program a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 22, 2016 ” The Transportation Security Administration has awarded L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) a $21 million order to provide security scanners to support passenger screenings at local airports, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The security and detection systems division of the aviation products and security sector und...
The State Department has approved Norway’s request to buy Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) P-8A patrol aircraft and associated support under a $1.75 billion foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government. Norway asked to purchase up to five P-8A aircraft with commercial engines, tactical open mission software, electro-optical...
Cyber risk management services provider Coalfire has purchased Veris Group for an undisclosed amount in a push to grow cybersecurity offerings for the government and commercial sectors. The transaction will result in the creation of a combined firm that will work to provide security engineering support, consulting and assessment ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential four-year, $207.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the full-rate production of 51 lot 90 Harpoon weapon systems for Egypt, South Korea and Brazil through a foreign military sales agreement. The sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract also covers the production of spares and related components for the ...
Sarcos Robotics has appointed Eric Olson, a former head of U.S. Special Operations Command, and Paul Gorman, a former chief of U.S. Southern Command, as members of the company’s advisory board. The robotic systems provider said Wednesday Olson and Gorman will work with fellow military veterans David Dunaway and William Owens as ...
CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has received a potential five-year, $744 million task order to provide logistics, sustainment and maintenance support services for the U.S. Army™s command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems used by coalition forces worldwide. The task order was awarded under the...
DynCorp International has won a potential eight-year, $93.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support various Defense Department missions in South and Southeast Asia and Oceania. DoD said Wednesday that the company will help department components facilitate humanitarian aid, civic assistance, minor military construction and cont...
Steve Hoover, CEO at Xerox‘s (NYSE: XRX) PARC subsidiary, has been named chief technology officer at the Norwalk, Connecticut-based document management and outsourcing company in a move that takes effect Jan. 1, 2017. Xerox said Wednesday Hoover will report to incoming Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson and succeed Sophie Vandebroek, who i...
