Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 05/20/2016

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Sabre Awarded Potential $150M Navy Seaport-e Task Order for Systems & Software Engineering Support

Sabre Systems has landed a potential five-year, $150 million task order under the U.S. Navy‘s Seaport-e contract vehicle to provide systems, software engineering and technical support for the service branch’s software engineering and acquisition management division…

Galois Unveils Election Tech Business Spinoff; Joseph Kiniry Comments

Galois has formed a new election technology company as part of an effort to help election officials secure and verify polls with open source software and systems. The Free & Fair spinoff will provide voting technology that utilizes commercial off-the-shelf hardware and works to generate verifiable evidence of election results, Galois said Monday…

Airbus Secures Potential $728M Subcontract to Support UK Military Training Program

The Lockheed Martin–Babcock International joint venture Ascent Flight Training has awarded a potential 17-year, $728 million subcontract to Airbus for service as the primary aircraft service provider for a U…

USPTO’s Bill Brantley Unveils Beta Version of Open Data Portal

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has launched a beta version of its open data portal that works to provide a platform to access patent data and drive collaboration between application developers…

AAR Lands $200M DLA Mobile Hybrid Shelter Supply IDIQ; Mark Platko Comments

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded AAR’s (NYSE: AIR) mobility systems business unit a potential four-year, $200 million contract to supply hybrid mobile shelters, containers and related accessories to the Defense Department and civilian agencies…

GSA Grants VATC Spots on IT Schedule 70, Law Enforcement Schedule 84 Contract Vehicles

The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded Tampa, Florida-based Visual Awareness Technologies and Consulting positions on the IT Schedule 70 and Law Enforcement and Security Training Schedule 84 governmentwide contract vehicles for information technology procurements…

Esri, Harris Form Federal GEOINT Data Production Partnership

Esri has partnered with Harris Corp. to develop new methods for the production of geospatial intelligence data within a web-based geographic information system in an effort to help federal agencies update their processes and outcomes…

Michelle Howard Nominated to Lead US Naval Forces in Europe, Africa

U.S. Navy Adm. Michelle Howard, vice chief of naval operations at the Pentagon, has been nominated to serve as commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe, U.S. Naval Forces Africa and the Allied Joint Forces Command in Italy…

Lockheed Eyes On-Orbit Re-Programmability for Air Force GPS III Satellites

Lockheed Martin will work to provide an on-orbit re-programmability feature for the U.S. Air Force‘s future global positioning system satellites in response to changing requirements. The company will seek to demonstrate this feature of the GPS III system over the next two years under the Air Force’s GPS III Space Vehicles 11+ Production Readiness Feasibility Assessment contract, Lockheed said Thursday…

Breaking Defense: Navy Plans Earlier Littoral Combat Ship Upgrade Award to 2018

U.S. Navy Capt. Dan Brintzinghoffer, Littoral Combat Ship program manager, has said the branch may choose an updated LCS design in 2018 instead of 2019 as part of efforts to fall in line with Defense Department budget plans, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday…

ISC Study: Federal Cyber Officials Cite Lack of Breach Response Plans at Agencies

Forty percent of federal cybersecurity executives who responded to an ISC survey said their agencies still lack “effective” incident response plans nearly a year after the U.S. government suffered a large-scale breach of employee and contractor records…