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A subsidiary of Chemring Sensors and Electronic Systems has landed an estimated $10 million contract for the sale of buried threat detection devices from a country in the Persian Gulf region. NIITEK will deliver its Groundshark dual-sensor handheld system that works to detect buried objects and threats including mines and improvised explosive devices, the company said Monday. NIITEK President […] More
A business unit of BAE Systems has been awarded a $40 million contract to supply new flares for the U.S. Navy‘s Air Expendable Countermeasures program. Part of the MJU-68/B flares production will go to the government of Israel under the foreign military sales program, the Defense Department said Monday. BAE Systems’ information and electronic systems integration […] More
Raytheon has been awarded a potential $18.7 million U.S. Navy contract to provide science and technology research support for the Network Cooperative Radar Program. The Defense Department said Monday Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business unit will perform design and development work for the program in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. The contract will run through July 9, 2018, if the option is exercised. […] More
A Textron subsidiary has secured a $66 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide armored personnel carriers to Iraq and Colombia. Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems will supply each nation with 60 Commando Select APCs, of which 58 have a 40/50 turret and four have a command-and-control variant, the Defense Department said Monday. Army Contracting […] More
Peru’s navy has selected a Rockwell Collins-designed tactical radio for installation on the agency’s fleet of SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopters. The company said Thursday its Talon V/UHF tactical radios are built to give pilots secure voice and data communications for missions in areas such as surface and sub-surface maritime, blue water and littoral surveillance, and search-and-rescue operations. Alan Prowse, vice president […] More
Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s public sector, has received recognition from FedScoop as part of an annual list of notable female executives in the Washington government information technology community. FedScoop said Thursday that Crouther and 49 other women honorees have demonstrated leadership in efforts to help federal agencies to carry out IT […] More
FedScoop has named Casey Coleman, group vice president for civilian agencies within Unisys‘ federal systems unit, into the “Top 50 Women in Technology for 2016” list. Coleman said in an interview with FedScoop that her mentors from her student days and early professional career have driven her to enter the STEM field. Coleman previously served as […] More
Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions business at AT&T, has been included in FedScoop’s list of D.C.’s Top 50 Women in Technology for 2016 in recognition of her work in the federal information technology sector, FedScoop reported Thursday. Kapoor told FedScoop in an interview that women should pursue a career in the field of science, […] More
Howard Byrd, director of federal contracts at Deloitte Services LP, joined other panelists in a Compusearch Software Systems-hosted discussion on the migration to the “next generation†of government contracts management. The GovCon Contracts Maturity panel discussion was the first in Compusearch’s Executive Panel series on GovCon best practices, Compusearch said Tuesday. Other panelists include Kelly […] More
The Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol has certified to Congress that an Elbit Systems of America-built Integrated Fixed Towers border surveillance system meets operational requirements, as part of the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Parent company Elbit Systems said Thursday IFT works to provide long-range, 360-degree, all-weather surveillance for optimized situational awareness and agent safety. The company added the […] More
The National Science Foundation has opened a $5.9 million Arctic region-focused scientific research data center in the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. NSF’s Arctic Data Center will work to serve as the Arctic research community’s data preservation and discovery storage, the agency said March 23. The center will work to […] More
Deloitte, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Datawheel have launched a new visualization engine to display U.S. public data. MIT’s Macro Connections Group partnered with Deloitte and Datawheel to develop Data USA that works to aggregate and visualize data from multiple sources including government agencies such as Commerce Department, Labor Deparment and Education Department, Deloitte said Monday. […] More
