San Diego-based General Atomics has purchased certain assets of molecular diagnostics technology maker Xagenic in a push to continue advances in the defense microelectronics, advanced sensor and signal processing technology areas. General Atomics said Thursday it will integrate the acquired assets into a bio-sensor technolog...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 25, 2018 ” Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) has signed an agreement with the government of Luxembourg on efforts to accelerate the country’s digital transformation around the areas of cybersecurity, education, financial technology and the internet of things, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said T...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 25, 2018 ” Ensco will continue its work with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency on a company-built chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear warning tool under an $8.2 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it will perform work on the Sentry CBRNe warning and decision...
At the Potomac Officer’s Club 5th Annual Intel Summit on Thursday, keynote speaker Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence a 2018 Wash100 recipient, addressed the room with his observations on the landscape of the intelligence community, the challenges facing agencies in threat detection and how to keep pace with technological advanc...
Seattle-based F5 (Nasdaq: FFIV) has added four technology industry veterans to the company’s leadership team. F5 said Wednesday Tom Fountain, former senior vice president of strategy and corporate development at McAfee, will serve as executive vice president and chief strategy officer. In his new capacity, he will oversee long-t...
Brian Fitzpatrick, formerly an industry executive at DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), has been named senior vice president of business development at LMI. David Zolet, LMI president and CEO, said in a statement published Wednesday Fitzpatrick will help the Tysons, Virginia-based nonprofit government consulting services contractor expand its market p...
The State Department has approved Belgium™s request to buy 34 Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35A conventional take-off and landing fighter aircraft from the U.S. government under a potential $6.53 billion foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed and United Technologies Corp.™s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary will ser...
Weekly Roundup January 15 – January 19, 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week we™re going to take a look at some of the recent executive moves in the GovCon marketplace. In the past few weeks there have been numerous changes in leadership including:...
Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. has secured a potential 10-year, $910.6 million contract to support the U.S. Army‘s efforts to research and develop aviation and missile systems. The Defense Department said Thursday that GTARC will provide systems research, engineering and science and technology development support to the service branchR...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 18, 2018 ” Merlin International has placed an investment worth $10 million to support Centerity‘s effort to expand its sales, marketing, distribution as well as research and development operations, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The cybersecurity company said Tuesday the investment serves to facili...
