Ramona Adams

A team comprised of Fluor, Meridiam Infrastructure Purple Line and Star America Purple Line has achieved financial close on Maryland’s $5.6 billion Purple Line Light Rail project. The Fluor-led Purple Line Transit Partners will finance, design, build, operate and maintain the project for Maryland’s transportation department and transit administration through a 36-year period, Fluor said Monday. The company added the team received financing […] More

Massachusetts-based medical technology developer Hologic has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a device the company developed to help clinicians detect Zika virus infections. Hologic said Friday its Aptima molecular diagnostic assay is designed for qualitative detection of ribonucleic acid from the mosquito-borne virus in human blood samples. The assay is based on the company’s Panther system that works to […] More

Calibre has partnered with Information Innovators Inc. to offer a range of information technology and project management services under the Department of Veteran Affairs‘ Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract vehicle. Alexandria, Virginia-based Calibre said Friday it will work to support Triple-i’s position as a prime contractor for the VA’s T4NG vehicle that covers work in areas […] More

The Office of Personnel Management seeks a small business that can help federal agencies  to recruit people with disabilities for government job opportunities. In a FedBizOpps solicitation posted Wednesday, OPM said it plans to award a potential three-year blanket purchase agreement for support services to the agency’s Disability Recruitment Initiative. The selected contractor will use government’s Schedule A Hiring Authority to find eligible disabled individuals for […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has entered agreements with Turkey’s government and aerospace companies in the country to license production of 109 T70 utility helicopters based on Black Hawk aircraft. Sikorsky said Thursday Turkish Aerospace Industries will build and deliver T70 aircraft within the next 10 years as prime contractor for the $3.5 billion Turkish Utility Helicopter Program. Sikorsky will provide engineering data […] More

Raytheon has passed a qualification test and design review for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System the company is developing for the U.S. Air Force contract. The company said Thursday the GPS OCX Monitor Station Receiver Element met the requirements of an electromagnetic interference test with a 100 percent passing rate as well as a design review which approves transition […] More