The State Department has approved the Philippines’ request to buy 14 Boeing-made (NYSE: BA) Harpoon Block II missiles from the U.S. under a potential $120 million foreign military sales agreement. The Philippines asked to procure 12 AGM-84L-1 air-launched missiles, two ATM-84L-1 exercise missiles, containers, parts and training equipment as th...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Comcast’s (Nasdaq: CMCSA) government services business a potential 10-year, $71.6 million contract to replace legacy multiplexing-based circuits and connect mission partners to the Department of Defense Information Network as part of work in Region 5 of the Commercial Ethernet Gateway program. The...
Patrick Markus, a more than two-decade government contracting industry veteran, has been appointed general manager of BlueHalo’s cyber and intelligence business sector. In his new capacity, Markus will lead strategic efforts intended to drive the sector’s growth, BlueHalo said Thursday. He previously served as a vice president at Dovel Techn...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced the expansion of the FirstNet broadband communications platform’s deployable network assets to support public safety personnel during emergency response efforts. The company said Thursday the expansion provides law enforcement, firefighters, emergency medical service personnel and other first responders access to o...
Clinton Bickett, chief financial officer of global mission services business unit at PAE (Nasdaq: PAE), has been appointed by the board of directors as interim president of the business unit, effective July 6. The move comes after Charles Anderson, a retired U.S. Army major general, stepped down as president of global mission services Thursday, June...
Angela Heise, a more than two-decade information technology and cybersecurity veteran, has joined Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) worldwide public sector organization as corporate vice president for defense and intelligence. Julia Glidden, CVP for Microsoft’s worldwide public sector, announced Heise’s appointment in a LinkedIn post Friday. Heise pr...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a five-year, $194.3 million task order to help U.S. Air Force researchers analyze and verify the integrity of very small electronic devices. The company said Thursday it will provide best practices for designing digital and analog systems and develop methods to detect counterfeit microelectronic products as part of the S...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has secured a $67 million contract to engineer space and ground systems that support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s environmental operational satellites. ASRC Federal Space and Defense will conduct satellite data collection, management and deployment efforts as part of NOAA’s Engineering ...
U.S. Transportation Command has issued a two-year, $152.6M contract modification through which 11 companies will provide multimodal transportation services within and outside the continental U.S. The contractors will perform doorstep deliveries, process customs clearances, facilitate data exchanges and clear containerized and breakbulk cargo under t...
The State Department has cleared a potential $2.43 billion foreign military sale of F-16 Block 70/72 fighter planes, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), to the Philippine government. This proposed FMS transaction covers the procurement of 10 F-16C jets, a pair of F-16D units and 15 F100-PW-229EEP or F110-GE-129D engines, the Defense Securit...
