A General Atomics business unit has received a one-year, $291.3M contract from the U.S. Air Force to help the service branch operate and maintain MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial systems. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will support UAS program and configuration management, logistics, flight operations and depot repair and field maint...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential five-year, $240M contract from the Missile Defense Agency to support engineering and integration of technical systems for the Ballistic Missile Defense program. MDA will incrementally pay for the services with $40.9M in fiscal year 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds, the Departm...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), Universal Technology Corp. and University of Dayton Research Institute have won positions on a seven-year, $44M contract to help the U.S. Air Force build aircraft systems to deliver cargo and weapons globally. All three contractors will aim to develop, integrate and demonstrate aerospace vehicle t...
James Mattis will leave the Department of Defense on Feb. 28 after two years of service as DoD’s top civilian leader. œMy views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues, Mattis wrote...
Richard Pilch, who previously managed countless programs in support of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, has joined Noblis as director of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives programs. He will lead the Reston, Va.-based contractor’s portfolio of CBRNE research, development, test and evaluation, systems engineering...
Peraton will continue to help the U.S. Air Force manage cyber technology platforms across multiple domains under a five-year, $66M contract. The company said Thursday the follow-on contract extends a partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Xdomain Technology Through Research, Evolution, Enhancement, Maintenance an...
Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) will support production efforts at the U.S. Air Force™s Kessel Run Experimentation Lab under a one-year, $100.1M other transaction agreement. The company will provide prototyping methods, software and services for the military branch’s enterprise architectures, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. W...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential $90.4M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to conduct analysis and studies related to a carrier-based unmanned air vehicle. Work will take place in St. Louis, Miss., through August 2024 as part of the MQ-25 manufacturing, development and engineering phase, the Department of Defense said Wedne...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 19, 2018 ” Gavin Greene, vice president of business development at NT Concepts, has said the company will work in 2019 to build on its capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning to support customer missions, particularly in the field of national security. Greene told ExecutiveBiz in an interview pub...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 19, 2018 ” A new Accenture (NYSE: ACN) report has found that many federal information technology executives experience continued challenges in their efforts to modernize IT, particularly in the alignment of technology priorities with mission objectives, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The professional services fi...
