Posts from GovConWire for 04/14/2016

Raytheon Lands $1B Contract to Build, Test Airborne Jammer Pods for Navy

Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $1.01 billion contract to help the U.S. Navy design, build, integrate and demonstrate new jammer model pods. The company will also produce Next Generation Jammer aero-mechanical test pods for use in aircraft flight verification, develop equipment for system integration laboratories and provide mature manufacturing processes, the Defense Department said Wednesday…

Army Taps 8 Firms for $675M Enterprise Software Support Contract Modification

The U.S. Army has awarded a potential $675 million contract modification to eight companies to continue to provide information technology systems in support of the service branch’s enterprise software…

Leidos to Provide Military Commissions Case Preparations Labor Under WHS Contract

Leidos has been awarded a $10.4 million contract by the Washington Headquarters Services to provide labor support for the Office of Military Commissions’ case preparations for hearings and trials…

DARPA Selects Vencore for DDoS Defense Program Research

A business unit of Chantilly, Virginia-based defense contractor Vencore has received an estimated $7.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for research on a computer network defense program…

Booz Allen to Help NASA Manage Aviation, Railroad Incident Reporting Systems

NASA has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a potential five-year, $33.9 million contract to provide operations and maintenance services for the agency’s aviation and railroad incident reporting programs…

Rolls-Royce Unveils T-45 Engine Repair Support Facility in Texas

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a new facility at Naval Air Station Kingsville in Texas to provide engine repair support for the T-45 trainer jet of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday the service delivery center will also provide service operations support for the Rolls-Royce-built F405 Adour engines of the aircraft…

Former DARPA & Google Exec Regina Dugan to Lead New Facebook Group

Regina Dugan, formerly advanced technology and products team lead at Google, has joined Facebook to lead the social networking site’s future advanced products development group, Forbes reported Wednesday…

Nutanix Names Sean McLaughlin Civilian Sales Director

Nutanix has appointed Sean McLaughlin to oversee the growth efforts of the company’s federal civilian agency business as director for civilian sales. McLaughlin’s new role entails collaborating with customers and industry partners to utilize the enterprise cloud platform toward a shared services strategy, targeting Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scores and building up data center environments, Nutanix said Wednesday…

Zachary Bookman: OpenGov Adds Open Data Mgmt Tools With Ontodia Buy

Redwood City, California-based financial intelligence analysis firm OpenGov has bought New York-based open data management company Ontodia for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand offerings for the public sector…

Deloitte: US Aerospace, Defense Exports Hit $143B During 2015

A Deloitte report has shown that gross U.S. aerospace and defense exports amounted to $143.3 billion in 2015, up 58.9 percent from the amount of domestic A&D exports recorded during 2010. The company said Wednesday it found during a study the A&D industry accounted for 9…

April 13 Market Close: GovCon Index Hits 75 for First Time in 2016 on 1% Surge

The GovCon Index rode across-the-board positive activity in U.S. markets Wednesday with a gain of 1.224 percent to 75.399, which represents the GCI’s first close above 75 points this year so far under its current 30-company composition…