Jim Simpson, a 35-year veteran of Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been named CEO of communications satellite operator ABS. ABS said Thursday Simpson will lead the company’s management team in efforts to create value for shareholders and strengthen business relationships with customers and vendors. “I look forward to leading ou...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6wTWiokVY Underground settings are becoming increasingly relevant to global security and safety. Rising populations and urbanization are requiring military and civilian first responders to perform their duties below ground in human-made tunnels, underground urban spaces, and natural cave networks. Recognizing that i...
A joint venture of Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE:HII) SN3 subsidiary and BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) has received a potential 10-year, $1.39 billion contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration to clean up contaminants in the Los Alamos National Laboratory. HII said Wednesday the joint venture named&n...
Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business has secured a position under a potential five-year, $500 million blanket purchase agreement to support a shared services program at the Agriculture Department. Accenture Federal Services is one of nine contractors eligible to compete for task orders to help USDA™s Office of the Chief ...
Samer Halawi, formerly chief commercial officer of satellite communications firm OneWeb, has been appointed to a similar role at Intelsat (NYSE:I) in a move slated to take effect Jan. 9. Intelsat said Wednesday Halawi’s appointment comes as the company aims to accelerate the commercialization of its EpicNG sa...
Alleace Gibbs, vice president of communications at Northrop Grumman™s (NYSE: NOC) technology services sector, has been named VP of communications at the defense contractor™s mission systems sector in a move that takes effect Jan. 1. Gibbs will report to Lisa Davis, corporate VP of communications, and oversee the development and execut...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) has received a three-year, $154.4 million U.S, Navy contract to to support Increment 8 of the Trident II Strategic Weapon System Shipboard Integration effort for two classes of future U.S. and U.K. ballistic missile submarines. The Defense Department said Wednesday Lockheed’s rotary and miss...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a potential seven-year, $110 million contract to provide networked cruise missile prototypes to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop’s space and mission systems business will design, develop, manufacture and test cruise missiles that can help defeat adversarial a...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a potential five-year, $110 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to support the military branch’s cruise missile science and technology demonstration project. The Defense Department said Monday Lockheed’s missiles and fire control unit will design, develop, manufacture and test prototype ...
David Hathaway, formerly vice president, partner and head of defense and intelligence industry team at IBM™s (NYSE: IBM) global business services unit, has joined Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) as senior VP for information technology and network communication services, GovConWire has learned. Hathaway oversees the development and implementation of network...
