Todd Wright, formerly executive vice president for operations at AECOM™s (NYSE: ACM) nuclear and environment strategic business unit, has been named general manager and EVP of the business unit. Wright will be in charge of the unit™s business development, strategic programs and daily operations, AECOM said Wednesday. The 35-year nucle...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 21 companies positions on a potential five-year, $750 million contract to provide command-and-control systems and related support services to the Department of the Navy. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic in Charleston, South Carolina, awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract throug...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $118.5 million contract to manufacture the ninth batch of miniature air-launched decoy jammer vehicles and support equipment for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company™s missile systems business will produce the vehicles in Tucson, Arizona, through June 30, 2...
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has awarded investment consulting contracts valued at up to $4 million each to AON Hewitt Investment Consulting, Mercer Investment Consulting, NEPC and RVK, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. David Thornton writes the companies will bid on financial management and s...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index staged a second consecutive session of recovery Wednesday from the post-Brexit shock that loomed over global financial markets during the prior two trading days with McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) as the top driver of gains with the prime defense stocks and platform also top performers. The GovCon Index closed ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2016 ” Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) will provide its underground data center in western Pennsylvania as primary colocation provider for NEC‘s SAP HANA private cloud service, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The WPA-1 data center works to host the SAP HANA service for NEC and facilitate compliance, security...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2016 ” A subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) in Canada and its partners including Leonardo-Finmeccanica and DRS Technologies plan to construct a training facility in British Columbia to accommodate a potential $3 billion production contract for the C-27J search-and-rescue aircraft, Exec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2016 ” India’s government aims to procure 22 General Atomics Predator unmanned aircraft systems under a potential foreign military sales agreement with the U.S., ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Defense News reported Monday India has sent its letter of request on June 17 to purchase the UAS as...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2016 ” CSRA‘s (NYSE: CSRA) SRA International subsidiary will help develop machine learning algorithms for trust calibration to drive human-robot teaming under a $7.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday the A...
FLIR Systems (Nasdaq: FLIR) has purchased San Francisco-based night vision and thermal imaging equipment supplier Armasight through a cash transaction valued at approximately $41 million. Andy Teich, president and CEO of FLIR, said in a statement released Tuesday the acquisition aims to expand the company’s portfolio o...
