Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will provide the U.S. Army various rocket pods for Israel, Finland, Jordan and Singapore under a $331.8 million foreign military sales contract. The Defense Department said Thursday Lockheed’s missile and fire control business will supply 290 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System alternative ...
Joseph Nicholas, formerly vice president of the cyber intelligence and operations sector at Parsons, will join Reston, Virginia-based information technology services contractor STG on May 23 as senior vice president and sector leader for cybersecurity and secure information systems. He will oversee the company’s efforts to develop IT...
Black & Veatch has won a potential five-year, $70 million contract to perform architectural and engineering services for the U.S. Army™s ballistic missile defense program. The Defense Department said Thursday that Black & Veatch’s special projects business will carry out work through May 18, 2021, with fun...
O3b Networks has appointed Jack Deasy, a former Federal Communications Commission bureau manager and Latin American telecommunications specialist, as its vice president for the government solutions business. He will lead O3b’s initial technology implementations at government and humanitarian agencies, as well as its local and in...
The GovCon Index felt the pressure from U.S. investor worries about a potential interest rate hike in June and closed at a decline of 0.520 points to 77.071. CAE (NYSE: CAE) was one of the GovCon Index’s lone bright spots with a gain of 2.65 percent after the Montreal-based aerospace and defense contractor posted full-year and f...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will provide digital signal generation technology to the U.S. Air Force under separate contracts in support of the Orbit Reprogrammable Digital Waveform Generator program, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The Defense Department said Monday Boeing rece...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” BAE Systems has tapped Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) to provide information technology services support for the former’s operations in the U.K. and Saudi Arabia under a $600 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. CSC said Tuesday the IT outsourcing deal covers contact...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Alan Bloodgood, a senior vice president at Siemens‘ U.S. federal government subsidiary, believes the federal sector will see an uptick in focus on renewable energy, distributed energy systems and energy security, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Bloodgood, who oversees energy and infrastructure busines...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Liz Anthony, senior vice president of marketing at ViON, was a featured speaker at the Channel Company‘s Women of the Channel West 2016 event in California, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. ViON said Monday Anthony co-hosted a session focused on the solutions provider and strategic service pro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 19, 2016 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has hosted the Boot Campaign’s Pushups for Charity challenge at the company’s flagship store in New York as part of National Military Appreciation Month, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the challenge aims to raise awareness on milita...
