Solon, Ohio-based expeditionary shelter systems provider HDT Global has purchased the assets of DRS Environmental Systems for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand the former’s mobile aircraft ground platforms, environmental control units and mobile enclosure product offerings. The transaction will allow HDT Global to include two DESI facili...
Four companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $48 million contract to provide engineering and technical support services to the Naval Research Laboratory’s electronic science and technology division. NRL received five offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a co...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index closed Friday down 0.177 points to 88.179 following a volatile afternoon trading session for U.S. stocks. Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) led all GCI net and percentage gainers Friday. The Index’s streak of five straight weekly gains also ended with this week’s loss...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index swung to negative territory in a volatile afternoon session for U.S. stocks Friday as equities retreated from morning gains after reports surfaced that China’s navy seized a U.S. unmanned underwater drone in the South China Sea. The GovCon Index’s streak of five consecutive weekly gain...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, and Rick Lober, a VP and general manager at Hughes Network Systems, were among the executive speakers at the Satellite Industry Association™s Defense Department Commercial SATCOM Workshop, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Cowen-...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” A team comprised of Boeing (NYSE: BA), Southwest Research Institute and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining has received a four-year, $6.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to assist in the development of a robotic technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. SwRI s...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” Deloitte‘s new “Mission analytics: Data-driven decision making in government“ report has recommended the use of analytics to help federal agencies gain insight from data, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the report also stated that agencies need to build a progr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” The U.K. air force has expressed plans to equip its General Atomics-built Certifiable Predator B unmanned aircraft systems with MBDA‘s Brimstone precision strike missiles, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. MBDA said Dec. 8 it will partner with the Defense Department, the U.K ministry of defense a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” NTT Data (NYSE: NTT) will operate and maintain the SAP-based business management platform of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System as part of a five-year agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. “CalSTRS was seeking a vendor that would be able to support expansion of their S...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential five-year, $459 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to begin full-rate production of cryptographic units designed to help the U.S. Air Force secure voice and data communications. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will build the devices in Indian...
