Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 03/07/2016

DARPA Launches New Social Science Program; Adam Russell Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started to accept industry proposals for a program in search of new technologies and methods to use in social science studies. DARPA’s Next Generation Social Science program aims to evaluate causal models of human social behaviors through several disciplines such as sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, psychology, computer sciences, physics, biology and math, DARPA said Friday…

Verisign Lands GSA ‘.Gov’ Domain Mgmt Contract

Verisign has received a one-year, $2.1 million bridge contract from the U.S. General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service to continue the company’s management, operations and maintenance services for the generic “…

DataPath Announces First US Govt Agency Sale of Inmarsat Global Xpress Service

A U.S. government agency has purchased access to the Inmarsat Global Xpress satellite communications service via a sales agreement with field communications firm DataPath to represent the latter company’s first such deal in the federal market…

Ashton Carter: National Guard Could Help in Cyber Efforts Against Islamic State Org

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said the U.S. National Guard‘s cyber squadrons could be called upon to participate in the campaign against the Islamic State militant group, Reuters reported Sunday…

Kratos to Provide Technical Support for SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific Comms Division

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a potential $36.2 million contract to provide technical support to the U.S Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific communications division…

Lockheed Wins Navy EO/IR Surveillance, Response System Contract

Lockheed Martin has won a potential $10.6 million contract to manufacture multispectral electro-optic infrared countermeasures to be installed on the U.S. Navy’s combined EO/IR surveillance and response system…

ABL to Participate in Engility-Led Army Medical Product R&D Contract Team

Advanced BioScience Laboratories will participate in an Engility-led consortium that holds a prime position under a potential 10-year, $900 million contract awarded in January to help research and develop medical products for the U…

Report: UK, France Reach $2B Agreement to Build Joint Combat Air System

British Prime Minister David Cameron has said the U.K. and France will invest at least a combined $2.1 billion for a collaborative unmanned aircraft development program, Defense News reported Saturday…