TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 18, 2017 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has participated at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s 2017 Innovators’ Showcase earlier this month with a demonstration of two maritime security technologies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it presented the Automa...
Ruth McMorrow, formerly executive vice president of Parsons‘ enterprises business, has been promoted to president of the unit focused on the development of concession-based businesses. Parsons said Wednesday McMorrow will oversee merger-and-acquisition transactions in her new position and report to Virginia G...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2017 ” Chris Pehrson, vice president of strategic development at General Atomics™ aeronautical systems business, has been named to the advisory council for the Center for a New American Security’s Evolving the Future Force project, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. CNAS said Monday the new ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 17, 2017 ” American Systems will provide specialized engineering and technical support for military air vehicle systems under a $30.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Defense Department said Monday the contract covers technical assistance in the design, development and...
Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has won a potential five-year, $130 million contract for scientific and engineering support services to the U.S. Army‘s Electronic Proving Ground facility at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. The company said Wednesday it will test distributed network and enterprise systems as well as provi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 16, 2017 ” Harris (NYSE: HRS) will provide sustainment services in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Space Command and Control platform in Dahlgren, Virginia, under a potential $18.9 million contract modification, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Friday the company will perfor...
Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) has established a new federal subsidiary that will work to deliver cybersecurity platforms to the public sector and has appointed executives that will serve on the subsidiary™s board of directors. The company said Monday Mike McConnell, former director of the National Security Agency and head of national intell...
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a grant to UL to help mitigate security risks for cybersecurity testing of the Internet of Things (IoT) and design gateways for industrial control system (ICS) applications. The DARPA grant will enable UL to identify the main areas of an industrial IoT gateway that re...
Mary Lou Prevost, vice president of state and local government and education at CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA), has said state government agencies should adopt a single identification system coupled with automation platforms to facilitate the delivery of services to citizens. Prevost wrote that an automation-equipped single ID system could help reduce...
India™s defense ministry looks to purchase $2 billion worth of Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launchers for six regiments within 18 months, Defense News reported Thursday. The proposed acquisition came five months after the ministry ordered India-made rocket launchers worth approximately $350 million for two regiments. Larsen & Toubro and ...
