TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 28, 2016 ” General Atomics has developed a mechanical arm designed to recover small unmanned aircraft systems in mid-flight, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Breaking Defense reported Monday that General Atomics created the mechanism as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agen...
The General Services Administration has given federal agencies the go-ahead to use the unrestricted portion of a contract vehicle to procure human capital strategy, training and development and organizational performance support services. GSA said Monday that 77 vendors won contracts under the Human Capital and Training Solutions Unre...
Antoine œTony Azar, formerly vice president and general manager of civilian and healthcare services at Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS), has joined CACI International (NYSE: CACI) as senior VP of health. Ken Asbury, CACI’s CEO and an inductee into Executive Mosaic˜s Wash100 for 2016, said Tuesday Azar will oversee the expansio...
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a potential $173.6 million contract to Sanofi Pasteur for work to develop inactivated vaccine candidate that could help prevent Zika virus infection and associated birth defects. HHS said Monday the contract has a $43.2 million base value that covers process develo...
Three Wire Systems has appointed Serena Bliss, formerly senior information assurance officer at Lockheed Martin subcontractor eSolution Architects, as the new chief information security officer at Three Wire. Bliss has more than 15 years of cybersecurity experience in areas such as application development, certification and accreditation, Three...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential $149.7 million firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy for hardware, production test stations and technical services in support of the installation of large aircraft infrared countermeasures. The Defense Department said Friday Northrop will help integrate L...
Lockheed Martin™s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has received a potential four-year, $232 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide two CH-53K helicopters designed to operate as system demonstration test article aircraft. Work under the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification will occur in various locations wi...
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $43.4 million contract to Boeing (NYSE: BA) and a $43.6 million contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to provide risk reduction measures for the military branch’s first carrier unmanned aerial vehicle program. Boeing and Lockheed will also refine concepts and develop trade space models to support re...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 23, 2016 ” The U.S. and India are close to reaching a deal to jointly manufacture the Javelin anti-tank guided missile technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Defense News reported Wednesday that Javelin Joint Ventures, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) joint ventu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 23, 2016 ” Kurt Amend, who joined Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) in 2011, has been appointed to succeed the retiring Lou Laroche as president of the company’s operations in Saudi Arabia, GovConExecutive reported Thursday. Amend previously served as vice president of foreign policy and national sec...
