https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x26hXsWp3uc Sixty years ago today, on October 4, 1957, there was a beeping sound “heard” round the world. It came while the United States and Soviet Union were caught in the fervor of the Cold War, but also at a time when people believed that American ingenuity and industry could overcome any technical cha...
General Atomics has purchased Fredericksburg, Virginia-based Syntronics for an undisclosed sum in a move to gain access to the latter company™s knowledge and experience in the development of electromechanical technology platforms. General Atomics said Monday it made the acquisition to expand the company’s footprint in Virginia a...
Harris‘ (NYSE: HRS) radio frequency communications unit has received a potential $765 million to provide multiple portable radio systems and ancillary parts to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Monday the company will also help the service branch field manpack, handheld, fixed-mount, vehicular and base station radios that address requ...
Polaris Alpha has acquired Denver, Colorado-based engineering and cloud computing services provider Solidyn Solutions for an undisclosed sum in a push to accelerate the development of space-based systems for national security clients. Peter Cannito, CEO of Polaris Alpha, said in a statement published Monday the company made the acquisition...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has been awarded a $91.5 million contract modification to continue to provide management and technical support services for the U.S. Army‘s high-performance computing platforms and services. SAIC is scheduled to finish work under the modification Oct. 18, 2018, the Defense Departm...
Vigor Works has won a potential 10-year, $979.8 million to help the U.S. Army build a waterborne craft platform for the service branch’s land maneuver forces. The Army Contracting Command received five bids for the Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) procurement effort via the internet, the Defense Department said Thursday. A ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 28, 2017 ” Siemens will open a research and development hub in Chicago next month that will be serve to support work on internet of things and cloud computing applications for the company’s control products and systems technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it plans to in...
An industry team led by Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential eight-year, $237 million to help the U.S. Army‘s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center develop a combat vehicle experimental prototype. SAIC will lead the group consisting of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), ...
An applied research laboratory within University of Texas at Austin has secured a potential five-year, $1.1 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to research, develop, engineer, test and evaluate multiple technology platforms for the Defense Department. DoD said Wednesday the laboratory will support the department’s R&D efforts in vario...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential seven-year, $450 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to apply an integrated engineering change proposal to the Small Diameter Bomb II weapon. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract covers design, development, integration, test and production engineering to modify the ...
