Precise Systems on Nov. 10 closed the transaction to acquire Excet, a provider of scientific research and engineering services to Department of Defense customers, including the U.S. Army and Navy. Excet's areas of expertise include alternative energy, biotechnology, synthetic biology and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives threat assessment, and many of its employees are holders of advanced degrees in various disciplines, Precise Systems said.

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Precise Systems, a Lexington Park, Maryland-based professional services company, will deliver technical support for acquisition-related software applications of the U.S. Navy under a potential $83 million contract. The aircraft division of the Naval Air Warfare Center awarded the noncompetitive contract to Precise Systems for the Acquisition Tools and Processes Program support, the Department of Defense […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $64.1 million contract to Tekla Research and a $57.4 million contract to Avian-Precise Co. for a range of support services to the Naval Air Systems Command’s Systems Engineering Department. The Defense Department said Friday Tekla will perform up to 835,200 hours of systems specialty engineering and technical work while Avian-Precise will conduct up to 739,200 hours of sustaining engineering, […] More

ECS has been awarded a spot on a potential $203.6 million contract from the Federal Communications Commission for application maintenance and support. Under the multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ECS is slated to deliver program and project management services, software and application upkeep, documentation and extreme programming to the FCC Information Technology Center, the Fairfax, Virginia-headquartered information […] More

Paul Cummings, vice president of Transformational Training Systems for Amentum, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for his first Executive Spotlight interview regarding the transition that U.S. military branches are undergoing for its training systems to implement the latest emerging technologies as well as the a new “train as you fight” approach and future advancement of these systems as technology continues […] More

Charles Onstott, chief technology officer for CALIBRE Systems, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for its most recent Executive Spotlight interview detailing his transition as CTO for the company, the major improvements of emerging technology in the federal landscape, the unique challenges on the business side of innovation as well as the ethical changes still to come. […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched an in-space manufacturing program that seeks to develop materials for large space and lunar structures and has announced a Feb. 26 webinar for interested proposers. The Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design program is aimed at enabling construction on orbit and on the lunar surface in response to payload size limitations.

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Mark Batis, former vice president at Criterion Systems, has joined Rockville, Md,-based information technology consulting firm Precise Software Solutions as vice president for growth, FedHealthIT reported Monday.

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Mercury Systems has unveiled a new switch fabric module technology designed to help customers build defense-tailored data center architectures.

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Frost & Sullivan‘s new study projects that developers of surface-to-air missile systems will see an increased demand for modernization, due to expected growth in the SAM market through 2023. The SAM market is growing because of several factors, including the frequent missile attacks in the Middle East, North Korea’s long-range missiles tests and China’s expansion […] More

Lockheed Martin and Israel-based Rafael Advanced Systems have partnered to market the latter’s Smart, Precise Impact and Cost-Effective missile guidance kits to the U.S. The companies will work to determine the potential markets and corresponding requirements for the kits under a co-signed memorandum of understanding, Lockheed said Monday. The SPICE autonomous, air-to-surface kits are designed […] More

“I don’t think of difficulties; I think of welcome challenges.” EM: Let’s start with your background and how you get to where you are today. Your title is Executive VP of Joint Unmanned Systems and Training Solutions for AECOM. Tim Saffold: I am pleased and feel privileged to be working on the AECOM team with the […] More