Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 10/19/2015

SAIC Lands Potential $757M Army Software Development Support Task Order

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential three-year $757 million task order to provide software development and systems engineering services to a U.S. Army directorate responsible for aviation and missile systems…

US Foreign Military Sales Hit $46B in FY 2015; Joseph Rixey, Heidi Shyu Comment

Defense Security Cooperation Agency Director Vice Adm. Joseph Rixey has said the U.S. recorded $46.6 billion in foreign military sales during fiscal year 2015, Defense News reported Sunday. Rixey told the Association of the U…

TCS to Help Sustain Army’s Satellite Transportable Terminals

TeleCommunication Systems (Nasdaq: TSYS) has been awarded a potential three-year, $91 million delivery order to sustain very small aperture terminals for the U.S. Army‘s satellite-based communication activities…

CACI Receives $50M Army Intell, Info Warfare Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

CACI International has received a two-year, $50 million task order to assist the U.S. Army in the service branch’s work to develop tools and applications for human and signals intelligence operations…

Amazon Web Services-Accenture Group to Offer Cloud Migration Services; Adam Selipsky Comments

Amazon Web Services and Accenture have teamed up to establish a new business group that will work to help commercial firms migrate and manage their data workloads and applications onto the AWS Cloud platform…

Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract

Three companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $49 million contract to build prototype sensors for the U.S. Navy to use during force-protection, intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance operations, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday…

SpaceX to Launch Two Satellites in December

SpaceX will return to flight in December with two scheduled satellite launches onboard the Falcon 9 vehicle, Space News reported Friday. Peter de Selding writes SpaceX plans to send 11 Orbcomm messaging satellites to low Earth orbit in mid-December and later the SES-9 telecommunications satellite into a higher orbit…

Red Hat Makes IT Automation Market Push Through Ansible Purchase

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has agreed to buy open source information technology automation company Ansible for an undisclosed sum in an effort to help customers manage cloud computing and traditional applications…