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...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory a potential five-year, $98 million contract for engineering, development and research services. APL will help DARPA create and maintain a tool to support engineering and developmental efforts that seek the practical appli...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index retreated Wednesday on declines by large prime and middle-tier services contractors that offset a surge by McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) in a session that saw U.S. stocks trade in narrow range to close the month of November. U.S. market activity was dominated by the agreement among OPEC countrie...
The chief executives of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) described to investors Wednesday their expectations of the foreign military sales environment in light of oil price volatility worldwide and President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign suggestion that U.S. allies contribute more financial resources to their own defen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 30, 2016 ” General Atomics has performed the maiden test flight of the Certifiable Predator-B remotely piloted aircraft at the company’s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in California, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. “The first flight of our Certifiable Predator-B aircraft is a major m...
