Pilatus Aircraft has received three contracts worth more than $294.6 million in total to supply PC-21 trainer jets to two international military customers and one defense company. The orders include 17 PC-21s for the French air force and two units each for Jordan’s air force and British contractor Qinetiq, Pi...
Craig Wade, formerly director of contracts at AugustaWestland‘s North American subsidiary, has been named vice president of contracts, grants administration and cost and pricing at University Research Co. and its Center for Human Services not-for-profit unit. URC said Tuesday Wade brings to the company 25 years of contract mana...
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW) has concluded its $233 million cash acquisition of Teletronics Technology Corp. as part of efforts to expand data acquisition technology offerings and geographic footprint. Both companies first announced the deal in early December. Newtown, Pennsylvania-based TTC will integrate into Curtiss-Wright’s defense ...
Marcy Palus, formerly vice president of contracts at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has been named VP of contracts management at CenturyLink‘s (NYSE: CTL) federal government solutions group, Washington Technology reported Wednesday. Mark Hoover writes Palus will oversee CenturyLink’s federal contracts division and professional&nb...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index moved higher for the second day in a row Wednesday on broad gains across almost all of the thirty stocks that make up index. The Dow Jones Industrial moved ever closer to the 20, 000 mark, closing at 19, 942.16 up 0.30 percent. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggards by a 14-to-1 ratio...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” SpaceX has scheduled the initial launch of Iridium Communications‘ (Nasdaq: IRDM) NEXT satellites on Jan. 8 after investigations revealed cause of the Falcon 9 rocket explosion, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Washington Post reported Monday the company discovered the cause to be a press...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE), has stated government organizations should take steps to employ a cyber situational awareness model to support cybersecurity collaboration, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The model should incorporate analytics and en...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” The U.S. Army has awarded Carahsoft Technology a two-year, $23.9 million contract to help obtain VMware product licenses to support the management and virtualization of the former’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical server infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Carah...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded ICF nine contracts worth a total of $34.4 million to provide campaign development services for the organization’s public health programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Friday it will provide research, creative, dig...
Xerox (NYSE: XRX) has officially separated into two publicly traded companies, one focused on digital printing technology and the other selling business process services. The digital print technology company will carry the Xerox name while the business process service provider will operate independently as Conduent (NYS...
