TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) plans to move the manufacturing base for the company’s F-16 aircraft to India in efforts to secure a potential order of more than 150 fighter jets under a military modernization program by the Indian government, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Bloomberg reporte...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 25, 2016 ” Battelle will work with a subsidiary of Astrotech to build the final prototype of a chemical detection platform under the third phase of the Defense Department‘s Next Generation Chemical Detector multi-sample identifier technology maturation and risk reduction program, ExecutiveBiz re...
Mary Ann Hopkins, formerly Parsons federal group president, will join global design and consultancy firm Arcadis to lead that company’s business in North America and Latin America as well as the global water and environment lines. Arcadis said Thursday Hopkins will assume her new role on Sept. 26 and the company’s&nbs...
BAE Systems and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) have each received contracts worth nearly $228.3 million combined from Australia™s defense ministry for services in support of military projects there. Defense Minister Christopher Pyne announced the contract extensions for the two companies during a trip to Australia’s New South Wales s...
DRS Technologies has received a potential $400 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a new Joint Assault Bridge system. DRS™ sustainment systems business unit will oversee the production of the hydraulic bridge launcher and M1A1 chassis assembly as well as system integration work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity c...
All Points Logistics has secured a potential five-year, $165 million contract from NASA to provide a range of information technology support services to the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana. NASA said Thursday the MSFC Information Technology Services II contract covers I...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded lower Wednesday with McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) the worst net performer at more than double the decline of second-lowest Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) as losses in healthcare shares dragged U.S. stocks into negative territory. General Dynamics was the only GovCon Index-S&P 500 compan...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 24, 2016 ” General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems subsidiary has delivered 20 Infrasound Collection Element small sensors to the University of Alabama in Huntsville to aid the university’s early tornado detection research and real-time tornado tracking efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The s...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 24, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has provided an Apache Longbow Crew Trainer to South Korea as part of a $1.6 billion contract to supply 36 attack helicopters and support services to the country’s army, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Longbow Crew Trainer employs flight simulation techn...
Thomas “Tom” Roell, vice chairman and chief risk adviser at Parsons Corp., has been appointed interim president of the Pasadena, California-based engineering and construction services contractor’s federal business unit and will maintain his other current roles for the company. Parsons said Wednesday Roell will continue to be b...
