TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 24, 2016 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to update the ground control segment of the service branch’s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday it will provide a scalable cockpit architecture and&n...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 24, 2016 ” Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress mobile broadband service will be available to global public sector customers via value-added reseller SpeedCast International, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. SpeedCast will support the deployment of the GX service alongside Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress maritime GX platform,...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 24, 2016 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will assume responsibility for the work previously held by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) under the National Science Foundation’s U.S. Antarctic Program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. NSF said Monday the transfer is part of Leidos’ merger with Lockheed’s information systems ...
BAE Systems PLC Chief Operating Officer Charles Woodburn will start a series of meetings with clients and suppliers sometime in October or November as part of preparations to succeed Ian King as CEO of the British defense contractor, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Benjamin Katz and David Hellier report that Woo...
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a potential eight-year, $117 million contract to Chantilly, Virginia-based contractor Chenega Infinity for security services at four DHS-operated law enforcement training centers in the U.S. DHS announced the award in a Wednesday FedBizOpps notice and said the company will be responsible...
Felix Marquardt, founder and co-chair of the think tank Youthonomics, has joined Cylance as president of the cybersecurity company’s international business organization Cylance International. Marquardt will report to Stuart McClure, president and CEO of Cylance, and will be responsible for the company™s expansion strategy worldwide a...
The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies spots on a potential $155.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide a range of support services for the Joint Staff J6 Directorate’s C4/Cyber program. The Defense Department said Tuesday contractors will vie for analytical, engineering and program manageme...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been awarded a potential five-year, $81.1 million contract to help the U.S. Army maintain an engineering and research-and-development platform to be built by an academic or a nonprofit organization. The Defense Department said Tuesday that APL will perform work under the cost-plus-fi...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index traded lower against across-the-board gains by U.S. stocks Tuesday as declines by large prime defense contractors weighed on the GCI. GovCon Index gainers edged laggers but only four of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500-listed stocks closed green as Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumm...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 23, 2016 ” Jason Kimrey, federal area director at Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), has said the company seeks to actively engage with federal customers in the high-performance computing and cybersecurity technology areas, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. “It is going to take targeted partnerships and collaboration with g...
