Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 10/13/2015

Battelle-Led Team Lands $185M Contract to Manage Army STEM Programs

A Battelle-led consortium has won a potential 10-year, $185 million contract to help administer the U.S. Army’s portfolio of programs for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Battelle said Monday it will support the service branch’s Army Educational Outreach Program in partnership with the Academy of Applied Sciences, Education First, MetriKs Amerique, National Science Teachers Association, Purdue University, Technology Student Association, Tennessee Technological University and Widmeyer Communications…

CACI to Maintain, Update FEMA Warning System; Ken Asbury Comments

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has been awarded a five-year, $90 million contract to help sustain and update the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s national public warning system. CACI will work to maintain, decommission, construct and preserve NPWS services, as well as test broadcast stations under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, CACI saidTuesday…

John McHugh: Army to Move Forward with Force Reduction Plans

U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh has said the military service is moving forward with efforts to reduce its end strength to about 450,000 active-duty troops over the next two fiscal years, Army Times reported Monday…

USAID Taps Engility for Somalia Economic Project; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments

Engility Holdings (NYSE: EGL) will help lead implementation work for the U.S. Agency for International Development‘s Growth, Enterprise, Employment and Livelihood project in Somalia under a five-year, $74 million contract…

Report: Boeing Seeks 150 Potential Int’l Chinook Orders Through 2022

Stephen Parker, vice president for cargo helicopters and H-47 Chinook program manager at Boeing, said the company aims to secure 150 direct commercial and foreign military sales for the Chinook helicopter through 2022, Defense News reportedMonday…

DARPA Kicks Off Research Program on Vanishing Air Delivery Vehicles; Troy Olsson Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit proposals for a new program that seeks to develop aerial platforms designed to deliver food and medical supplies and physically disappear after the delivery mission…

7 US Allies Order AeroVironment Unmanned Aircraft Systems

The U.S. Army has awarded AeroVironment an $18.5 million foreign military sales contract to manufacture small unmanned aerial vehicles for seven U.S. partner nations. AeroVironment saidTuesday it will deliver an undisclosed number of RQ-11B Raven drones as well as spares and logistics support services under the firm-fixed-price contract…

Michael Buratowski: Standards Body Certifies Fidelis Cybersecurity as Payment Card Forensic Investigator

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has granted Fidelis Cybersecurity a certification to help financial services companies to manage compromised data. “The PCI Forensic Investigator certification allows us to engage with payment card companies immediately following an attack to quickly detect, investigate and stop the theft of critical information,” Michael Buratowski, vice president of Fidelis’ consulting services group, said Friday…