Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 05/31/2016

VA Taps Philips for Ambient Assisted Living Tech Research Grant; Hans-Aloys Wischmann Comments

Royal Philips has secured grant funds from the Department of Veterans Affairs to explore location-aware assisted technologies for the VA as part of an effort to aid veterans with mild cognitive impairments…

Schafer Forms Commercial Space Situational Awareness Business Unit Under New VP, GM Donald Greiman

Schafer Corp. has established a commercial space situational awareness business unit that will be led by Donald Greiman, a former National Air and Space Intelligence Center vice commander for the U…

CACI Receives Navy Contract Extension for Warfare Systems Program Office Support; Ken Asbury Comments

CACI International has received a five-year, $50 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Surface Warfare Center to provide program and financial management support services to the center’s warfare systems program office…

George Washington University & IBM Start Cyber, Homeland Security Task Forces

George Washington University and IBM have established four task forces to support GWU’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security unit’s efforts to deliver research and analysis on cyber, homeland security and counterterrorism policies…

Centerra to Extend Facility Maintenance Support for DOE Power Marketing Org

Centerra Group has been awarded a five-year contract to provide facilities maintenance services to an Energy Department organization that markets and distributes electricity in the Pacific Northwest…

InfoReliance to Provide Amazon Web Services Cloud Systems to Justice Dept, GAO

InfoReliance will provide Amazon Web Services infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud systems to the Justice Department and Government Accountability Office under a prime contract with DOJ…

Lockheed to Continue Development, Tests on Japan’s Aegis Computer Systems

The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $33 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification to sustain test and development services for Japan’s Aegis modernization baseline computer programs and equipment…

GSA Seeks Info on Future HQ Construction Management Services Sources

The General Services Administration has started its search for information on potential industry sources that can provide construction management support services for a proposed new GSA headquarters facility under a potential 10-year contract…

Parsons Secures Contract for Life Cycle Mgmt Support at MDA Facilities

Parsons has landed a $9.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide life cycle management support services for Technical Engineering, Advisory and Management Support facilities…

Cisco Executive Chair John Chambers Joins OpenGov Board of Directors

John Chambers, executive chairman and former CEO of Cisco, has joined the board of directors of OpenGov and invested in the latter company’s cloud-based financial intelligence and planning services…

Defense News: Navy to Push Overhaul Work on 5 Ships Into FY 2017’s First Quarter

A U.S. Navy official has said the service branch faces a budget shortfall of $848 million in its maintenance and operations funds that could potentially delay the deployment of some ships, Defense News reported Thursday…

CFM International to Provide Supplies, Services for P-8 Aircraft CFM56 Engines

The Navy has awarded CFM International a $32.5 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to deliver field assessment, repairs and replacement support for CFM56 engines on the Boeing Poseidon P-8 aircraft…