A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has received a $115.3 million contract modification to perform additional lead yard services, development studies and design support for the U.S. Navy‘s Virginia-class attack submarines. General Dynamics Electric Boat will maintain, update and support submarine design and data as well as ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 16, 2017 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has made the winning mapping algorithms in the second round of the SpaceNet Challenge available to the public as the company seeks to drive the development of machine learning technologies for geospatial applications, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company said Monday ...
The California Institute of Technology will continue to help NASA run the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory under a potential $2.5 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. NASA said Wednesday Caltech will manage the development and sustainment of core competencies for NASA-funded projects in areas such as astrophys...
ASRC Federal‘s data solutions business has secured a potential five-year, $319 million to support infrastructure, applications and communication functions at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA said Wednesday the company will also provide products and services to KSC as well as other NASA facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Fo...
Defense technology firm Polaris Alpha has added former government leaders Joanne Isham and Henry Muller to its board of advisers. Muller and Isham will work to provide strategic advice to the leadership team as the company delivers services to government, intelligence community and military clients, Polaris Alpha said Monday. Isham has mor...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has won a potential five-year, $91.5 million contract to advise and assist the Missile Defense Agency on the cybersecurity management and computer network defense of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The Defense Department said Tuesday Booz Allen will help MDA acquire, manage and operate information tech...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 15, 2017 ” Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ (Nasdaq: HDP) public sector business, has pointed to culture change at government agencies as one of the key drivers of development in big data storage, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. He said in an interview published Aug. 8 that data has become the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 15, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has unveiled an online marketplace for the AWS GovCloud (US) region that will work to facilitate the development of software products for government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. AWS said Thursday independent software vendors can use the AWS Marketplace t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 15, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) aims to generate 60 new manufacturing jobs in New Mexico over the next six years with the expansion of its 103,000-square-foot facility at the Sandia Science and Technology Park in Albuquerque, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Albuquerque Business First reported Friday that the stat...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Aurora Flight Sciences have won positions on a potential eight-year, $499 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to research, develop and demonstrate aerospace vehicle systems designed to deliver weapons, cargo and other payloads to warfighters. The Air Force Research Laboratory received six proposals for the indef...
