Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW) has agreed to acquire electronic systems producer 901D Holdings for approximately $132M in cash as part of efforts to expand its work with the U.S. Navy on shipbuilding programs....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 27, 2019 — The test dummy for Boeing's (NYSE: BA) initial orbital flight test of the Starliner space taxi will be called "Rosie the Astronaut" in honor of a World War II icon, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday....
M1 Support Services has received a one-year, $101.9M contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to perform flight line and backshop maintenance work at Nellis AF Base in Nevada....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 26, 2019 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) will continue to provide base operations support for U.S. forces at Shaikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain under a potential $23.7M contract modification from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday....
ASRC Federal has secured a potential five-year, $354M contract to help NASA plan and manage the space agency's programs, missions and projects. NASA said Tuesday the company's systems solutions unit will support documentation, scheduling, configuration, general business and earned value management functions under the Program Analysis and C...
The U.S. Navy has named the winners of four prize challenges for mission payload design concepts as part of a program to develop a ship-based unmanned aerial system for Marine Air Group Task Forces....
The National Information Assurance Partnership has certified two Attila Security offerings for compliance with the NIAP Common Criteria framework. Attila said Thursday the certification makes the Silent Edge Enterprise Server and the GoSilent mobile client eligible for procurement by government agencies....
Starboard Value, a New York-based investment adviser and a shareholder of AECOM (NYSE: ACM), has recommended three independent directors for appointment to AECOM’s board under a governance agreement. AECOM said Friday Peter Feld, a managing member of Starboard, and Robert Card, president of executive advisory services firm The Card Group, wil...
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed a federal suit Friday in Washington contesting the fairness of the Department of Defense's move to award a $10B cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Bloomberg reported Saturday. DoD faces the legal challenge one month after it selected Microsoft to be its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contr...
On Tuesday, Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Unmanned Systems in the Future Fight Forum featuring Maj. Gen. Peter Gersten, special assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs (AF/A5/8) for the U.S. Air Force, as the keynote speaker. In addition, an expert panel featuring Jim Thomson of the Army Futures Command...
