The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has awarded Unisys (NYSE: UIS) a potential five-year, $11.2 million contract to move approximately 4, 000 OCC employees to a cloud-based email platform. Unisys said Thursday it will provide analysis, design, transition planning and development services intended to facilitate OCC&...
NASA has awarded six companies separate contracts worth up to $65 million combined to help the agency research concepts and develop ground prototypes for deep space habitats. Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Orbital ATK (NYSE:OA), Sierra Nevada, Bigelow Aerospace and NanoRacks were chosen t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 9, 2016 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has hired a former executive at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) to take a senior position with the company, GovCon Executive reported Monday. Fortune reported Wednesday Adam Bosworth brings software development and management experience in areas such as the Internet of Things...
NASA has awarded a potential two-year,  $500 million extension to a Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) subsidiary on a test and operations support contract for support of the space agency’s launch services program at Kennedy Space Center. The agency said Monday Jacobs Technology will continue to perform overall management a...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded positions on a $400 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to four companies to support restoration, modernization and sustainment efforts at various military ground testing facilities. The Defense Department said Monday CB&I Federal Services, Black & Veatch Construction, Turne...
Bob Brodowski, formerly director of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s advanced systems and technology directorate, has joined Orbital ATK‘s (NYSE: OA) space systems group as director for advanced technology development. Orbital ATK said Friday Brodowski has more than 30 years of experience in programs that align with th...
Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) has appointed Richard Swardh, Jeff Harig and Steve Good as senior vice presidents for three different vertical market areas at the company’s Comtech EF Data subsidiary. Swardh, Harig and Good will respectively lead the unit’s mobile network operator, government syste...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 4, 2016 ” Harris (NYSE: HRS) will support the first phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research and development program under a $27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. DARPA obligated $22.3 million from its fiscal 2015 and 2016 R&D funds at the time of th...
Parsons Corp. has won a potential five-year, $86 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide advisory and assistance services for the Ballistic Missile Defense System program. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Parsons’ government services business will support the development of an integrated comman...
Elizabeth Jordan Wilhelm — a former U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal officer — has joined Janus Global Operations as director of conventional weapons destruction and unexploded ordnance clearance. JGO said Wednesday Wilhelm will work out of the demining and UXO clearance company’s Reston, Virginia office. “...
