TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has upgraded six B-52 bomber planes of the U.S. Air Force with increased capacity for internal weapons, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the upgraded internal weapons bay launchers can load up to eight Joint Direct Attack Munitions. “The upgrades t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space systems segment, said the first GPS III satellite has completed a thermal vacuum test as part of the U.S. Air Force™s program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Space News reported Wednesday the test works to id...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” American Systems has received a Maturity Level 3 quality appraisal under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the CMMI-DEV 1.3 appraisal covers process management, engineering, project ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 15, 2016 ” Serco Inc. has received a three-year extension to continue to compete for task orders under the potential $1.4 billion Global Installation Contract the U.S. Navy awarded in 2011, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Thursday the contract extension provides for continued C4ISR systems s...
The U.S. Navy has awarded CH2M Hill a potential five-year, $240 million contract to provide architect-engineering services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command‘s Atlantic area of responsibility. NAVFAC Atlantic awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive procurement process with three bids re...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has received a $159 million task order to standardize the U.S. Army‘s tactical and data network systems in an effort to help soldiers connect to the network. The company will work to integrate and streamline hardware, software, security and tactical network initialization tools for the Army’s Project Direc...
Robert Leduc, a 35-year veteran of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has been named president of UTC’s aircraft engine unit Pratt & Whitney. He will succeed Paul Adams, who has led the business since 2014 and will retire by the end of February after a 17-year career at UTC, the company said Thursday. Ledu...
NASA has awarded Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), Sierra Nevada and SpaceX a second round of potential multi-billion dollar contracts to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station through 2024 in support of efforts to end U.S. reliance on Russia for access to space by 2017, agency officials said Thursday. Each new Commercial Resupply...
The GovCon Index showed signs of life Thursday with a gain of 1.105 percent to 73.040 amid further turmoil in international financial markets as U.S. stocks also rallied amid global losses. The S&P 500 rose 1.67 percent to show its largest gain in almost six weeks and go back above the 1, 900 mark. Crude...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 14, 2016 ” The U.S. Army has used General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) two-channel AN/PRC-155 Mobile User Objective System manpack radio during a demonstration of the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) MUOS satellite network, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. “These radios conn...
