Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 04/25/2016

GSA to Release RFPs for Alliant 2, Small Business Track in June

The General Services Administration plans to release the request for proposals regarding the Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract and its small business component sometime in the second half of June…

State Dept Clears $1.2B Sale of Raytheon-Built Air-to-Air Missiles to Australia

The State Department has approved Australia’s request to purchase $1.22 billion in Raytheon-made (NYSE:RTN) AIM-120D medium-range air-to-air missiles and related equipment under a foreign military sales agreement with the U…

Textron Awarded $116M to Update Army Shadow UAS Fleet; Henry Finneral Comments

A Textron (NYSE: TXT) business unit has been awarded a $116.5 million contract to update a tactical unmanned aircraft system the U.S. Army operates for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions and to relay communications…

DARPA Seeks Proposals for Future Secure Messaging Platform

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked for proposals from industry to develop a secure messaging platform for the U.S. military that is accessible via a web browser or standalone native application…

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Adopt Red Hat Private Cloud Platform; Radhesh Balakrishnan Comments

NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will move to a private cloud computing infrastructure built by Red Hat in an effort to modernize and secure JPL’s on-premise storage and server system. The space agency selected Red Hat’s OpenStack and Linux technology to update JPL’s storage service for large computing requirements of scientists and engineers at NASA’s main center for robotic exploration of the solar syste,, Red Hat said Monday…

SAIC Lands Army Software Development Training, Simulation Task Order; Jim Scanlon Comments

Science Applications International Corp. will provide simulation and training support services to special operations military personnel and employees of civilian and federal agencies under a potential five-year, $93 million task order with the U…

State Dept Approves $260M Raytheon-Made Rolling Airframe Missiles Sale to Qatar

The State Department has cleared a proposed $260 million foreign military sale of Raytheon-built (NYSE: RTN) Rolling Airframe Missiles and related equipment to Qatar. Qatar ordered 252 RIM-116C rolling airframe tactical missiles and two RIM 116C-2 rolling airframe telemetry missiles in efforts to protect its naval forces and oil and gas infrastructure from missile threats, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday…

NASA Eyes ‘Quiet’ Supersonic X-Plane Demonstration in 2020

NASA aims to build a supersonic aircraft that can generate a thump-like sound rather than a boom and begin flight tests of that technology by 2020. The agency said Friday it also seeks to demonstrate what it calls a “three-legged stool” of aviation research through the Quiet Supersonic Transport X-plane development project…

DARPA Launches New Mathematics, Algorithms Research Program for Fabrication Methods

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled its Transformative Design research program to develop new mathematics and algorithms that will work to help apply new materials and fabrication methods…

Report: HASC to Consider Potential Elevation of Cybercom to Unified Command Structure

The House Armed Services Committee could tackle the possibility of elevating the status of the U.S. Cyber Command to a unified combatant command level as part of the panel’s markup of the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill, Breaking Defense reported Friday…

A&D Tech Industry Vets Carl Johnson, Rebecca McGrane Join Norsk Titanium

Aviation component manufacturer Norsk Titanium has named Carl Johnson as senior vice president of technology, engineering and quality and Rebecca McGrane as vice president and general manager of its technology center…