Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 04/01/2016

DARPA Awards Gremlins Program Phase 1 Contracts to 4 Companies; Dan Patt Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a series of phase one contracts to four companies for proposals to develop unmanned air systems that can be recovered while in flight and are reusable…

Air Force to Share North Dakota AFB Runway With Northrop, General Atomics for UAS Tests

The U.S. Air Force has agreed to share a runway at North Dakota-based Grand Forks Air Force Base with Northrop Grumman and General Atomics for the service branch and companies to test unmanned aerial vehicles…

Defense News: Raytheon-DRS Team to Help Army Build FLIR Sensors Under $154M Contract

A team comprising Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and DRS Technologies has been awarded a potential $154.4 million contract by the U.S. Army to help develop sensor technology for soldiers to detect targets through fog, Defense News reported Thursday…

GSA Selects Loan Marketplace Provider DebtX for Agency Financial Advisory Services

The General Services Administration has awarded a five-year contract to Boston-based loan marketplace provider DebtX for a suite of financial advisory services to federal agencies. DebtX said Tuesday it will provide loan sale advisory, valuation and due diligence services to agencies through February 2021 after the company completed a year-long vetting process with GSA…

Jeffrey Harrigian: Air Force Tests F-35 Against Potential Enemy Air Defenses

A U.S. Air Force official has said the service branch has started to subject its F-35 fighter jets to combat mission tests against Russian- and Chinese-made aerial defense platforms through the use of “open air” ranges as well as computer modeling and simulation environments…

Huntington Ingalls CEO Mike Petters: Navy Should Push LXR Amphibious Ship Project Forward

Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has recommended that the U.S. Navy launch its LX(R) dock landing ship development initiative two years earlier than originally planned in an interview with Reuters posted Tuesday…

Fulcrum Doubles Task Area Presence on NIH IT Small Business Contract Vehicle; Craig Matthews Comments

Fulcrum has been awarded five additional task areas as part of a modification to its existing position on a potential 10-year, $20 billion governmentwide contract vehicle for information technology products and services managed by a National Institutes of Health office…

Army Officials: Nano UAS Tech to Have Day-Night Cameras, Industry Day Scheduled

U.S. Army Col. Phil Cheatham has said he believes the development of a nano-unmanned aerial system could be a “game changer” for military reconnaissance missions at the squad level, the Army News Service reported Thursday…