SRI International has secured a seven-year, $150 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to provide development services for candidate HIV prevention products from investigator-initiated studies or from partnerships with other companies and organizations. SRI said Tuesday its biosciences division will manufacture and charac...
David Cummins, former senior vice president of mobility solutions at Xerox (NYSE: XRX), has joined Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary as senior vice president for the transportation business unit. The 15-year industry veteran will be in charge of Reston, Virginia-based Serco Inc.‘s work in the aviation, air traff...
Brooke Patterson, formerly vice president and deputy general manager of FEI Systems, has been appointed senior VP for government services at Norfolk, Virginia-based healthcare management and information technology consulting firm ARDX. ARDX said Tuesday that Patterson will oversee the company’s efforts to expand and implement he...
CyberCore Technologies has appointed Ontuitive Chairman Stephen Hoffman and Kirkland Donald, a 37-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, to the cybersecurity services contractor’s board of directors. Kevin Powderly, CyberCore chairman and co-founder, said in a statement released Tuesday that Hoffman’s senior leadership experience and c...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index reversed its morning decline to close higher Tuesday in a second straight session of contributions by mid-tier platform and services contractors against flat or red movements by large defense primes. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered decliners by a 4-to-1 ratio and six of its 11 S&P 500 stocks registered...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has agreed to purchase Sunnyvale, Calif.-based autonomous maritime vehicle manufacturer Liquid Robotics for an undisclosed sum in the airplane maker’s strategy to create new information services functions between the ocean and space. Boeing said Tuesday its acquisition of the company behind the W...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2016 ” Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has set a Dec. 16 launch date for the first batch of the company’s next-generation communication satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Ten initial NEXT satellites will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California into low-earth orbit via&n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has added CACI International (NYSE: CACI) to an AWS-led program for technology partners that support customers’ cloud computing efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. CACI said Wednesday it also seeks to extend the firm’s cloud adoption ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 6, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has updated the ground control system of the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Positioning System satellites as part of the GPS operational control segment modernization effort, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Commercial Off-the-Shelf Upgrade #2 became fully operational ...
ŽSarasota, Fla.-based industrial and technology conglomerate Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) has agreed to purchase software and information product provider Deltek for $2.8 billion from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Roper said Tuesday it expects to complete the transaction before the year’s end and will fund the deal through its existi...
