TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 22, 2016 ” Chris Pehrson, senior director of strategic development at General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business, has said unmanned aerial vehicles should have added functionalities to support mission reassignment, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Pehrson was one of the participants in a discussion of the...
The State Department has given Japan the go-ahead to purchase the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft and related support from the U.S. government under a potential $1.9 billion foreign military sales agreement. Japan asked to procure four KC-46A aerial refueling planes equipped with Raytheon-made (NYSE: RTN) A...
Mark Benjamin, a 24-year veteran of human resources management firm Automatic Data Processing (Nasdaq: ADP), has been named president and chief operating officer of Georgia-based consumer transaction technology provider NCR (NYSE: NCR). He will report directly to NCR Chairman and CEO Bill Nuti and be responsible for the company’...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential $395 million contract modification to build the ninth and 10th Global Positioning System III space vehicles for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force exercised an option in a previously awarded GPS III production contract and obligated $373.4 million for the modification from the military branch&...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential six-year, $254.6 million contract to design, build, integrate and test a Joint Precision Approach and Landing System for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Raytheon will continue to develop eight existing JPALS engineering development models and build ...
L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) has been awarded a potential $238.2 million contract by the U.S. Navy to develop and manufacture passive sonar receiver technology for installation on submarines. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide a first article TB-29X towed array receiver unit, production tow...
Sujey Edward, formerly vice president of Salient CRGT™s Agile Innovation Center and Agile Center of Excellence, has joined Octo Consulting Group as chief technology officer. He will report directly to Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani and be responsible for the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based contractor’s information technology ...
BAE Systems™ U.S. subsidiary has won a potential six-year, $84.7 million contract to design and develop Network Tactical Common Data Link systems for the U.S. Navy. The service branch awarded the firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to BAE Systems Inc. through a competitive procurement process with four proposals received, th...
Sprint Federal Operations has received a potential $215.7 million contract modification to continue to help the Defense Information Systems Agency operate and maintain DISA’s fiber telecommunication systems in Europe. DISA issued the modification to exercise the second option year of a previously awarded contract and the ex...
BAE Systems Chief Operating Officer Charles Woodburn will assume responsibility for the British contractor’s defense operations and cybersecurity subsidiary in the U.K. ahead of CEO Ian King’s anticipated retirement in 2017, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sarah Young writes a BAE spokeswoman told Reuters the company has informed employ...
