TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 19, 2016 ” A Dell-sponsored study by PSB has found that 70 percent of federal information technology decision-makers revealed their agencies still rely on legacy computer systems while more than 50 percent still use obsolete operating systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Dell said Tuesday the&nbs...
The State Department has approved Afghanistan™s request to purchase crew-served and individual weapons and related support from the U.S. government under a potential $60 million foreign military sales agreement. Afghanistan asked to buy 4, 891 units of M16A4 rifles, 485 M240B machines guns and 800 M2 machine guns in support of the Afghan n...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been awarded a potential two-year, $2.81 billion contract modification to deliver a total of 19 KC-46A Pegasus low-rate initial production aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. The service branch made the award for the first two LRIP lots after the aircraft received Milestone C approval from the Defense Department on Aug. 1...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential $254.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite“quantity contract to test, repair and analyze the aircraft test articles for the U.S. Air Force™s F-15C and F-15E jets. The Defense Department said Thursday Boeing will perform the testing part of the contract on tasks meant to help the milit...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded five companies positions on a potential three-year, $78.4 million contract to provide information technology support for the military branch’s weapons and command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the indefinite-delivery/indefini...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rebounded Thursday from a two-session stretch of losses on a surge by CACI International‘s (NYSE: CACI) stock after the government services contractor topped Wall Street’s fourth quarter and full-year forecasts. Arlington, Virginia-based CACI said the February acquisition of the Nation...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 18, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and the U.S. Navy have completed the first live fire test on the SeaRAM anti-ship defense system aboard the USS Carney guided-missile destroyer, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday the test held in Spain used a RAM Block II missile to i...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 18, 2016 ” A subsidiary of Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has concluded preliminary design review on the AstroMesh radar antenna reflector for a joint satellite program between NASA and India’s space research organization, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Northrop said Tuesday Astro Aerospace...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 18, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has opened a pilot training facility for the T-50A trainer aircraft in South Carolina as it eyes the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer replacement contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the facility will house tooling and manufacturi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 18, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has awarded DLT Solutions a Government Competency certification for the latter’s work to drive cloud readiness at government agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. DLT said Tuesday the certification builds on its status as an AWS Managed Service Provi...
