ExecutiveBiz featured Richard Durand, client executive vice president – National Security, AT&T Public Sector and FirstNet, in its recent Executive Spotlight interview published Thursday. He talked about having 5G capabilities in national security efforts and shared the company’s over two decades of experience in supporting the federal g...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received three separate multi-year contracts from the U.S. Navy for the development of space vehicle terminals, procurement of hardware for weapon replaceable assemblies and delivery of support services for a mine detection platform. The Department of Defense said Thursday Northrop will provide the Navy with Relay Gr...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary and Boeing (NYSE: BA) have added six technology suppliers to an industry team that is working on a proposed helicopter for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program. The companies that will supply components for the Defiant X helicopter are ATI Forged Products, Collins Aerospace,...
The U.S. Navy has selected the Remus 300 unmanned underwater vehicle from Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as the military service’s next generation small UUV program of record. HII photo The branch made the selection after a rapid prototyping initiative that ran for two years and will move the Lionfish SUUV program forward with UUV...
GovCon Wire Events will host a fireside chat on Tuesday, April 5 with Mary Erickson, acting assistant administrator for weather services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and acting director of the National Weather Service. Erickson will offer insights on weather and climate forecasting and how NWS works to improve satellite, ai...
Professional services firm cBEYONData has acquired Alta Via Consulting for an undisclosed sum to establish a combined entity that will provide enterprise resource planning, financial and data analytics platforms and services to federal government customers. The combined firm will operate with over 240 employees that are focused on delivering busines...
Stephen Kirin, who joined Mitre in 2002, has been promoted to serve as vice president of enterprise operations at the nonprofit research and development contractor. The retired U.S. Army colonel will oversee business priorities and operational activities throughout the Mitre enterprise and lead management of corporate strategy, objectives and measur...
Maria Hedden, a defense and communications industry veteran with more than two decades of management experience, has joined Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) as chief operating officer. Hedden will be responsible for driving Comtech’s operational performance through production improvement, delivery scheduling and engineering initiative...
Naval Sea Systems Command has issued a $222 million modification on a sonobuoy production contract shared between Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and ERAPSCO. The two companies will compete for orders and deliver up to 18,000 units of the AN/SSQ-125A series sonobuoy to the U.S. Navy under an exercised contract option, the Department of Defense said...
Amentum has received a non-competitive contract worth $99.94 million to provide maintenance and logistics support services for aircraft assigned to the Naval Air Warfare Center in Patuxent, Maryland. The company will receive task orders to help maintain the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18, EA-18G, MH-60S, E-2C and F-16 platforms through September 2023, the...
