Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 12/21/2015

Justice Dept Posts Draft RFP for Potential $1.4B IT Mgmt Services Contract

The Justice Department has announced plans to award up to 12 contracts to procure a range of commercial services intended to help DOJ manage its information technology systems. The department said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice that it could select five IT service providers for the program’s unrestricted portion and choose six vendors for a small business set-aside track…

Defense News: Lockheed’s F-35 Subcontracts With Israeli Firms Hit $770M

Lockheed Martin has awarded approximately $770 million worth of contracts to Israel-based companies to perform work related to Israel’s purchase of F-35 fighter aircraft, Defense News reported Sunday…

State Dept Clears Lithuania’s $55M Raytheon-Lockheed Javelin Missiles Purchase Request

The State Department has approved the sale of Javelin missiles worth $55 million to Lithuania under a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government. Lithuania ordered 220 Javelin missiles, 10 Javelin fly-to-buy missiles and 74 Javelin command launch units from the U…

CACI Gets Extension on Army EW Tech Support Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

CACI International has secured a multimillion task order to continue its support for the U.S. Army‘s efforts to develop tools against electronic warfare threats. The company said Monday it will also collaborate with the Army’s intelligence and information warfare directorate to engineer software and hardware that work to secure air- and ground-based military platforms from EW attacks…

Boeing Gets 2nd ISS Crew Mission Task Order From NASA; Kathy Lueders Comments

Boeing has received its second task order from NASA to transport crews and their cargo to the International Space Station under the company’s potential $4.2 billion Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract…

SAIC’s Bob Fecteau: Corporate CIOs Need Standardized Practices

Bob Fecteau, chief information officer at Science Applications International Corp., has said companies should standardize practices in order to allow CIOs to perform enterprise resource management initiatives…

Kevin Neifert Named Raytheon CIO; Rebecca Rhoads Comments

Kevin Neifert, formerly chief information officer of Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business, has been named CIO of the company. Neifert will succeed and report to Rebecca Rhoads, Raytheon corporate vice president and president of the company’s global business services, Raytheon said Wednesday…

Motorola Solutions Invests in Public Safety Collab Tech; Paul Steinberg Comments

Motorola Solutions has pumped cash into BlueLine Grid’s suite of messaging products in an effort to help provide collaboration tools to public safety, security and law enforcement officials. BlueLine offers messaging, location, conferencing, virtual command and file-sharing to clients for internal communications, BlueLine said Friday…