Avaya has named Jerry Dotson, former vice president for civilian sales, as the new VP for civilian and advanced programs within the company’s government solutions business. Dotson will oversee the design and implementation of communication services to support the various operations of Avaya government customers, the company said Thur...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential four-year, $375.6 million contract to produce and deliver nine ground/air task-oriented radar low-rate initial production systems to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Wednesday Northrop’s electronic systems business unit will perform contract work in Ma...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft has received a $135.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to build 24 UH-60M Black Hawk multimission helicopters configured for Taiwan under a foreign military sales deal. Sikorsky will perform work in Stratford, Connecticut, through Oct. 8, 2018, the Def...
The National Nuclear Security Administration has decided to revoke a potential $5 billion contract NNSA awarded to Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies Corp. earlier this week on grounds that NVS3T did not inform the agency it was acquired by Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) as part of the latter’s merger with ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $114.3 million extension on the company’s Mission Operations, Systems Engineering, and Software II contract with NASA to continue to maintain a space observatory currently in low-Earth orbit. NASA said Thursday that Lockheed’s space systems segment will support the H...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a two-year, $204.3 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue to provide support services for baseline 5.1 of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system under increment 2 development phase. The modification brings the total contract value to $2.4 billion and also cover...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index fell Wednesday to register a fifth decline over seven sessions in a stretch that puts the GCI in negative territory for August and ends its streak of monthly declines at six as U.S. market speculation over the next rate hike overshadows trading activity. Investors are looking at Friday’...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 31, 2016 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has appointed Mike White, former mission area executive for air and missile defense at the lab, to lead its air and missile defense sector, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Johns Hopkins APL said Monday White will oversee work on air and missile d...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 31, 2016 ” The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has set a record for building the largest solid 3D-printed object with the trim-and-drill tool the lab built for Boeing (NYSE: BA) measured at 17.5 feet long, 5.5 feet wide and 1.5 feet tall, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. ORNL sai...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 31, 2016 ” Ensco will work with PositiveID to deliver a biothreat detection system as part of the second phase of the Department of Homeland Security‘s SenseNet program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. PositiveID said Monday it will provide its Firefly Dx automated biothr...
