Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 11/04/2015

House, Senate Negotiators Agree on 2016 NDAA Revisions

Leaders of the House and Senate armed services committees have finalized a strategy to insert $5 billion of potential military funding cuts in the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, The Washington Post reported Tuesday…

Robert Work: Pentagon Could Face $14B Funding Gap Under Budget Deal

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work estimates that a two-year budget agreement forged between the White House and Congress will create a $14 billion Defense Department spending gap in fiscal 2017, Defense News reported Monday…

TWD Receives $99M USCIS Record Maintenance Task Order; Larry Besterman Comments

TWD & Associates has received a $98.8 million task order from the Department of Homeland Security to maintain the records system portfolio of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The company will work with partners Calibre Systems and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) to maintain code and develop applications for USCIS, TWD said Tuesday…

Andy Start: Inmarsat Expands Broadband Satellite Service Coverage for Govt Clients

Andy Start, vice president for Inmarsat‘s global government business, has said the company expanded geographic coverage of its Ka-band broadband satellite network to address public sector clients’ communication demands, Satnews reported Monday…

Lockheed Develops Reconfigurable Small UAS for Maritime Users; Jay McConville Comments

Lockheed Martin will continue to develop a small unmanned aircraft system that works to adapt to various maritime operations under a $4.6 million contract. The company has begun to build a Vector Hawk drone with fixed-wing, collapsible-wing and tilt-rotor configurations, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday…

Rep. Will Hurd: Proposed Bill to Offer DHS Cyber Support at State, Local Levels

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) has proposed a bill that would direct the Department of Homeland Security to provide resources for state and local governments upon request as they work to protect their computer networks from cyber attacks…

MorphoTrust’s DoD ID Verification Contract Renewed; Bob Eckel Comments

MorphoTrust has received a $3.5 million contract renewal to extend its biometrics-based identity verification services for the Defense Department as part of a third-year option. The company said Tuesday it will continue to provide the MorphoTrust ABIS or automated biometric identification system to DoD in support of the national security mission…

SRI Awarded National Cancer Institute Drug Support Contract; Toufan Parman Comments

SRI International will provide preclinical treatment development support for the National Cancer Institute’s Prevent Cancer Drug Development Program under a potential $9 million contract. NCI’s Prevent initiative aims to advance the development of biomarkers and drug candidates designed to prevent cancer and transition them from preclinical phase to clinical trials, SRI said Monday…