Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a two-year, $204.3 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue to provide support services for baseline 5.1 of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system under increment 2 development phase. The modification brings the total contract value to $2.4 billion and also cover...
Steve Kastin, formerly chief healthcare information technology strategist for the Department of Veterans Affairs™ national office of information and technology, has joined Clarendon, Virginia-based contractor By Light Professional IT Services as chief medical officer and healthcare IT strategist. He will apply his background...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has secured a one-year, $300.6 million contract to provide lead yard services and support development studies and design efforts for the U.S. Navy‘s Virginia-class submarines. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Electric Boat Corp. will help the military branch maintain and...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 29, 2016 ” DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) has worked with Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA to build the SpaceNet online repository of satellite imagery and training data, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The repository works to support the development of machine learning and deep learn...
Load King and Schutt Industries have been awarded a potential seven-year, $187.9 million shared contract to manufacture 11 low-rate initial production M870A4 semitrailers for the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday the firm-fixed-price contract also covers subsequent full-rate production of up to 1, 350 traile...
Cummings Aerospace, Dynetics and Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. have received separate contracts worth up to $9.9 million each to provide hardware, software and design services to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Friday contractors will support the military branch’s Command, Control, Communications...
Carmen Krueger, senior vice president of cloud operations at SAP (NYSE: SAP) National Security Services, has said federal agencies should consider agility as one of the key factors when it comes to the development of a strategy for cloud deployment. Krueger wrote that there are three areas in which a cloud platform can help agencies become...
August 22 – August 26 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson An investment analyst at the U.S.’ biggest and world’s fifth largest bank endorsed the defense sector this week in a note to investors with a forecast that views continued ̶...
United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), will provide Atlas V 541 launch services to NASA for a follow-up rover mission to Mars. NASA said Friday it estimates that the Mars 2020 launch will cost $243 million, including spacecraft and planetary protection processing, rocket...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential one-year, $126.3 million contract modification to provide engineering and system support services for the U.S. Navy™s Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems program. The cost-plus-incentive-fee modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract and covers development, design...
