Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 11/10/2014

Ken Asbury: CACI to Help Army Build Threat Detection Sensors

The U.S. Army has awarded CACI International (NYSE: CACI) a potential two-year, $32.5 million contract to help the service build a range of electronic sensing devices. The contract has one base year and one option year and was awarded through the Army’s Rapid Response Third Generation program, the company said Monday…

Joe Rambala: Exelis-Airbus Team to Combine Tech for F-16 Missile Warning Functions

Exelis (NYSE: XLS) will combine its electronic warfare system technology with Airbus Group‘s AAR-60(V)2 Missile Launch Detection System for Fighters under a teaming agreement to deliver missile warning functions to the F-16 Fighting Falcon…

InfoReliance to Help Army Manage Workloads Through AWS; John Sankovich Comments

InfoReliance will work with the U.S. Army to provide cloud resources to the service’s geospatial center through Amazon Web Services‘ computing and storage services. The Army geospatial unit AWS services to pilot and test ideas and to migrate critical workloads to an Amazon cloud platform, InfoReliance said Friday…

HHS Buyers Club Website Goes Live; Mark Naggar Comments

The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Buyers Club has introduced a public-facing website in an effort to explore procurement strategies, Fedscoop reported Friday. Billy Mitchell writes the website serves as a central hub, through which the Buyers Club consults with HHS’ component agencies on agile acquisition methods…

Former DIA Director Patrick Hughes Joins Hazelwood Street Consultants

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, will work as a senior consultant with Hazelwood Street Consultants and advise clients at principal and Senior Executive Service levels…

Fulcrum Lands Navy, Intell Community Cloud Research Task Order

Fulcrum has received a task order to research cloud computing technologies for the U.S. Navy and intelligence community in an initiative to coordinate the adoption of new technologies with the Defense Department‘s cloud enterprise initiatives…