Weekly Roundup April 17 – April 21 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson We™re rapidly approaching the middle of FY 2017, and amidst all of the news surrounding President Trump™s FY 2018 budget plan, the border wall, and attempts at healthcare refor...
William LaPlante, formerly a vice president of Mitre, has been appointed as senior vice president and general manager of the nonprofit research company’s Center for National Security. Mitre said Thursday LaPlante will lead efforts to increase the organization’s strategic value across its Defense Department, intellig...
The U.S. Army has awarded 10 companies positions on a potential five-year, $231 million contract that covers non-personal services for the Army Combined Arms Center. The Defense Department said Wednesday contractors will vie for task orders to help CAC develop and produce training and education strategies, scientific human subjec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 19, 2017 ” A division of Vencore will perform research and development work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under a $10.3 million contract for the Dispersed Computing program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Vencore Labs will produce software platforms that work to build on network and ap...
Ensco will continue to provide applied research and development as well as engineering services to a U.S. Air Force unit that performs nuclear treaty compliance monitoring and nuclear event detection under a potential eight-year, $74 million contract. The company said Tuesday it received the Modeling, Software and Engineering Sup...
Rear Adm. Ken Perry, USN Ret., vice president for product integration and concept development at General Dynamics Electric Boat, discusses Virginia-class submarine production, the status of the Columbia-class program and the Virginia Payload Module (VPM), the state of the company’s workforce, and the company’s vision for future involveme...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 18, 2017 ” The U.S. Navy has awarded separate contract modifications to Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Atomics, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) for continued risk reduction work on the future MQ-25 unmanned carrier aviation air system, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Dep...
Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business has secured a potential $466.1 million from the U.S. Navy to engineer and provide technical support for Standard Missiles 2, 3 and 6. The Defense Department said Monday the contract covers research and development, design, systems and production engineering, evaluation, component d...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 17, 2017 ” BAE Systems will bid on task orders to provide prototype design, test and integration support to the U.S. Army‘s Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Forces Strategic Command under a potential $3 billion multi-award contract awarded in February, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The compa...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQeLVY22PMk The Lead Engineer for Lockheed Martin™s Exoskeleton Technologies program talks about his journey into robotics and development of the FORTIS Industrial Exoskeleton. An exoskeleton is a wearable robot that augments natural abilities, allowing users to do tasks they would not normally be able to perform...
