Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) Chief Financial Officer Lloyd Howell characterized to investors Wednesday the firm’s pending $250 million acquisition of digital services contractor Aquilent announced Tuesday as a “tuck-in, capability-based” versus other large scale-focused transactions in the industry over the past y...
Judy Marks, an executive vice president at the Dresser-Rand subsidiary of Siemens,  has been selected to succeed the retiring Eric Spiegel as CEO of the industrial conglomerate’s U.S. subsidiary in a move scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. “Judy has a deep knowledge of Siemens’ entire portfolio that will ...
Robert Day, a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral and former USCG chief information officer, has been appointed by Blackberry (Nasdaq: BBRY) to manage the mobile device maker’s new federal Cybersecurity Operations Center and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program product initiatives. Day is a federal information te...
India has signed $737 million contract to procure 145 BAE Systems Inc.-developed artillery guns through a foreign military sales transaction with the U.S. government, Defense News reported Wednesday. Vivek Raghuvanshi writes the British defense contractor’s U.S. subsidiary will supply the M777A2 LW155 ultralight howitzers and set up ...
Rainer Blair, a Danaher Corp. (NYSE: DHR) vice president and group executive, will elevate to an executive VP role at the Washington, D.C.-based science and technology company in a transition scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2017. Danaher said Thursday Blair will be responsible for the company’s $5 billion life sciences pl...
Serco Group has secured a potential 10-year, $759.3 million contract from England’s Barts Health NHS Trust to carry out facility management services. Serco said Thursday the contract covers cleaning and domestic services; linen and laundry; patient catering; portering; car parking; reception and helpdesk; and other non-clin...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $558.5 million contract modification to support the U.S. Air Force‘s F-15 radar improvement and modernization programs. The Defense Department said Wednesday work under the modification will run through Jan. 15, 2019 and covers procurement, installation and spares production for 42 combined APG-6...
The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a potential seven-year, $384 million contract to produce a thermal weapon sight technology that will work to help soldiers identify and engage targets in the battlefield. BAE said Wednesday the military branch ordered the company’s Family of Weapon Sights“Crew Served system compris...
A United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) subsidiary has secured a $309.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide propulsion system services in support of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Pratt & Whitney will supply hardware, training course materi...
Sonalysts and Carley have won contracts worth up to $246 million combined from the U.S. Navy to develop and maintain curriculum for the Naval Education Training Command™s naval training products and services program. Each indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has an ordering base period of 35 months and a 36-month...
