Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has secured a potential $119 million contract to help the U.S. Army develop 120-millimeter ammunition for the Abrams Main Battle Tank. The company said Wednesday it will support the development and qualification of the service branch’s Advanced Multi-Purpose round over a 30-month period under the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 31, 2017 ” BAE Systems and Turkish Aerospace Industries will collaborate on the first development phase of the Turkish air force’s TF-X fighter jet program under a “Heads of Agreement” deal, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The agreement was signed ahead of a planned contract worth an estimated $...
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TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 24, 2017 ” PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal systems business, predicts that the U.S. government will increase efforts to develop offensive cyber techniques in 2017 to help strengthen the cybersecurity of government data, political systems and the country’s critical infr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 23, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has begun to develop an optical instrument assembly for NASA‘s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope to support the space agency’s dark energy and exoplanet research efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Scientists and engineers at Lockheed’s Advance...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 11, 2017 ” The U.S. Navy looks to extend BAE Systems‘ development work on a pulsed power technology for the shipboard electromagnetic railgun weapon system through a contract modification, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday the potential sole-source aw...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded ICF nine contracts worth a total of $34.4 million to provide campaign development services for the organization’s public health programs, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Friday it will provide research, creative, dig...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 23, 2016 ” Johns Hopkins University and its Applied Physics Laboratory have joined a group of universities and research centers in support of a Facebook-sponsored academic research agreement, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. SARA aims to advance the development of new technology that will work to allow collaborations betw...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” A team comprised of Boeing (NYSE: BA), Southwest Research Institute and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining has received a four-year, $6.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to assist in the development of a robotic technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. SwRI s...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2016 ” CACI International (NYSE: CACI) will support the U.S. Army in efforts to create modeling, simulation and training platforms for electro-optic/infrared and signals intelligence payloads under a three-year, $31 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The platforms will work to boos...
