Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 06/07/2016

Iridium to Launch Satellite Broadband Service in Q2 2017; Matt Desch Comments

Iridium Communications has announced it will release a new satellite communications service offering for the government and enterprise sectors in the second semester of 2017. The Certus service will be powered by Iridium’s NEXT satellite network and will work to deliver broadband connectivity to public and private sector customers as a standalone option or in conjunction with very small aperture terminals, Iridium said Tuesday…

Kymm McCabe Joins Deloitte Federal Practice as Digital Principal

Kymm McCabe, founder and CEO of business development services provider Value Storm Growth Partners, has joined Deloitte’s federal government services practice as a principal of the company’s digital consultancy business…

Raytheon Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne as Weapon Propulsion Tech Supplier; Taylor Lawrence Comments

Aerojet Rocketdyne has agreed to supply propulsion and energetic systems for Raytheon‘s major weapon programs under a strategic sourcing agreement between the two companies. Raytheon and Aerojet Rocketdyne also aim to jointly chase affordability programs in the government sector through 2019 as part of their partnership, Raytheon said Tuesday…

Air Force Takes in 1,400 Rockwell Collins-Built Remote GPS Receivers

Rockwell Collins has supplied 1,400 anti-jamming and anti-spoofing GPS receivers to the U.S. Air Force‘s Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command under a follow-on order. The company said Monday its Remote Secure Receivers are designed with the Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module that works to help military personnel secure their smartphones, tablets, radios and vehicle computing systems…

Steve Gizinski: Inmarsat-Spectra Group Alliance Creates Satellite Service for Tactical Mobile Comms

Inmarsat and Spectra Group have partnered to develop a mobile satellite service intended to help military customers facilitate ultra and very high-frequency tactical communications. Steve Gizinski, vice president of special programs at Inmarsat’s U…

Bloomberg Government Team Predicts FY 2016 Reversal of Contract Spending Declines, M&A Reshaping to Continue

Total federal contract spending declined for the sixth consecutive year in the government’s 2015 fiscal period but the team of analysts at Bloomberg Government predict that negative trend to reverse in 2016…

Evoqua to Perform Water Purification Services at Norfolk Naval Station; Rodney Aulick Comments

Evoqua Water Technologies has been selected to provide boiler water services at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia under a five-year contract with a U.S. Navy supplier. Evoqua said Monday the company will use its mobile deionization units to produce deionized boiler feed water for ships that dock at the naval station…

Colorado Springs Gazette: President Obama Opposes VA Privatization

President Barack Obama has outlined his opposition against the privatization of the Department of Veterans Affairs in an interview with the Colorado Springs Gazette published Sunday. Megan Schrader writes Obama plans to address what issues remain at the VA over the remaining few months of his second term and called a proposal for the department’s privatization a “mistake…

MacB, Exeter Partner to Sustain Air Force’s Purchase Request Processing System

MacAulay-Brown will collaborate with Exeter Government Services to provide process management and sustainment support for the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition platform under a five-year contract. MacB said Monday the contract also covers system analysis and software code design and testing support for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Purchase Request Processing System as well as continued maintenance services for the service branch’s Oracle-based management and logistics systems…

Erickson Gets $70M in Navy Vertical Replenishment, Logistics Support Contracts

Erickson has received two five-year contracts worth approximately $70 million combined to provide rotary-wing logistics support and vertical replenishment services to the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command…

German Defense Ministry Seeks C-130 Alliance with Partner Nations

The German Federal Defense Ministry has kicked off discussions with several partner nations to join forces in the operation of the Lockheed Martin-built C-130 Hercules aircraft, Defense News reported Monday…