BP Products North America, Shell and Vitol have won separate one-year, fixed-price contracts worth $354.3M combined to deliver fuel products to the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA received 18 responses for the procurement effort and will finance orders with fiscal 2019 defense working capital funds, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Each ...
Timken Gears and Services has received a $147.4M U.S. Navy contract modification to provide main reduction gear shipsets for Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. The gear is designed to transfer power from a pair of main gas turbine engines to propulsion shafts of the vessels, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Naval Sea Systems Com...
FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE) has acquired McLean, Va.-based cybersecurity instrumentation technology provider Verodin through a cash-and-stock transaction worth approximately $250M. œVerodin gives us the ability to automate security effectiveness testing using the sophisticated attacks we spend hundreds of thousands of hours responding to, and provid...
ECS Federal won a potential six-year, $276M task order to help the Department of Homeland Security update a dashboard for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, G2Xchange ETC reported Tuesday. The report said ECS beat out two contractors for the order DHS competed through the General Services Administration’s Alliant 2 governmentwi...
Michael Steuert, who served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Fluor (NYSE: FLR) from 2001 to 2012, has been appointed to re-assume the CFO post effective June 1. He will succeed Bruce Stanski, who will remain with the company to help analyze its investments and joint ventures as part of an ongoing...
Seventeen large and small contractors won spots on a potential five-year, $248.9M contract to provide sustainment equipment to U.S. Navy Fleet Readiness Centers. Contractors may compete for each order under 14 functional areas covering ancillary, measurement, sustainment, protection and testing platforms, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The ...
Betty Sapp, former director of the National Reconnaissance Office, has joined Ball (NYSE: BLL) as a member of the board of directors. John Hayes, chairman, president and CEO of Ball, said in a statement published Tuesday Sapp will complement Ball™s leadership team and board as the company continues efforts to meet its Drive for 10...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 28, 2019 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is working to facilitate internet access for military veterans in rural areas as part of a collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver telehealth services as well as education, business and job opportunities to retired service members, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday...
Jeremy Bash, a cybersecurity intelligence professional, has been appointed to the board of directors of managed security services provider deepwatch. Charlie Thomas, CEO of deepwatch, said in a statement released Tuesday Bash is an expert on modern security issues and a trusted adviser to technology firms worldwide. Bash brings to deepwatch over two...
CentralSquare Technologies has purchased Tellus Safety Solutions for an undisclosed sum in a push to establish a single virtual network to facilitate communications for first responders and other public safety personnel across North America. CentralSquare said Wednesday it plans to create a common virtual system designed to connect disparate 911 com...
