General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation business has received a $143.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to for the low-rate initial production of lots 1 and 2 turboshaft engines for CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters. The Defense Deparment said Thursday GE Aviation will supply 22 T408-GE-400 engines, peculiar su...
Four companies have won separate potential five-year contracts to provide engineering and technical support for the U.S. Navy™s command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems and information technology platforms. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific received four offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts t...
The U.S. Army has awarded seven companies spots on a potential five-year, $150 million contract to support the service branch’s mission training complex systems. Eighteen bids were submitted to the Army Contracting Command for the hybrid contract via an online solicitation and work is scheduled to occur through Nov. 14, 2022, the Defense Depar...
Lori Scherer, formerly deputy director of intelligence portfolios at Mitre, has been named VP of intelligence portfolios at the National Security Engineering Center, a federally funded research and development center the nonprofit company manages for the Defense Department. In her previous role, the more than 25-year company veteran w...
A business unit of BAE Systems has secured a potential $183.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to execute fiscal 2018 modernization work on a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship. The Defense Department said Tuesday BAE’s Norfolk Ship Repair business will help the service branch maintain, update and repair USS Tortuga systems as...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 14, 2017 ” Red Hat‘s (NYSE: RHT) hybrid cloud technology has been utilized by Radiance Technologies to fulfill work on a task order to migrate the U.S. Air Force to a cloud infrastructure, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 7. Radiance has deployed a Red Hat Cloud Suite-based cloud service to support the Air ForceR...
Private equity investment firm H.I.G. Capital has bought Reston, Virginia-based program management and consulting services provider Whitney, Bradley and Brown for an undisclosed sum. WBB CEO Robert Olsen said in a statement published Tuesday the company aims to utilize H.I.G.’s resources in efforts to expand services for federal agency cu...
Paul Johnson, a retired U.S. Air Force major general, has joined Grant Thornton‘s public sector business as a senior strategic adviser for the defense and intelligence community. The 32-year military veteran will advise the company on security and defense business development and strategic matters, Grant Thornton said Friday. Carlos ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2017 ” A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit will help sustain the attack weapon control and fire control systems for the U.S. Navy‘s SSGN guided-missile submarines and the U.K. navy’s SSBN ballistic missile submarines under a $25.7 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 10, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) has collaborated with the Missile Defense Agency to load the 44th interceptor onto the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system located at Fort Greely in Alaska, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the installation marks the completion of a Defense Department goal to i...
